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Petiver

10,874karma·622submissions·December 2, 2014
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He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."
recent activity (622 total)
54 pts
The Ultimate Horse(worksinprogress.co)
5d ago·15 comments
20 pts
'The Cheese and the Worms' by Carlo Ginzburg Review(historytoday.com)
9d ago·8 comments
4 pts
Once More in Triple Time(theamericanscholar.org)
10d ago·discuss
54 pts
A Dying Art: The last of the morticians(harpers.org)
23d ago·16 comments
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The Legend of the Gibbet(historytoday.com)
1mo ago·discuss
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Swift, Gay and Pope's season in the sun(theguardian.com)
1mo ago·discuss
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Reinventing the Renaissance(drb.ie)
2mo ago·11 comments
6 pts
Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons(literaryreview.co.uk)
2mo ago·discuss
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Voting Before the Secret Ballot(historytoday.com)
3mo ago·discuss
38 pts
Cordouan Lighthouse(en.wikipedia.org)
3mo ago·6 comments
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William Cecil's Succession Plan(historytoday.com)
4mo ago·discuss
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Living Without My Self(aeon.co)
4mo ago·discuss
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An Aroma Most Beguiling(orionmagazine.org)
4mo ago·discuss
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The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)(quillette.com)
4mo ago·11 comments
77 pts
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV(historytoday.com)
4mo ago·15 comments
28 pts
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History(publicdomainreview.org)
5mo ago·7 comments
19 pts
Heart, head, life, fate(lrb.co.uk)
5mo ago·6 comments
38 pts
A History of Haggis (2019)(historytoday.com)
6mo ago·16 comments
1 pts
The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?(theguardian.com)
7mo ago·1 comments
1 pts
Horace Fletcher(en.wikipedia.org)
7mo ago·discuss
11 pts
Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)(publicdomainreview.org)
7mo ago·discuss
3 pts
A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars(newrepublic.com)
8mo ago·discuss
216 pts
Cat Gap(en.wikipedia.org)
8mo ago·59 comments
42 pts
A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson(historynewsnetwork.org)
8mo ago·121 comments
52 pts
The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)(publicdomainreview.org)
9mo ago·10 comments
18 pts
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)(publicdomainreview.org)
9mo ago·6 comments
3 pts
Seeking Signs of Life on Venus(nautil.us)
9mo ago·discuss
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Enchanting Imposters(daily.jstor.org)
9mo ago·1 comments