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Petiver

10,875karma·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)
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Autism Aesthetics(sydneyreviewofbooks.com)
6y ago·discuss
28 pts
Wartime Broadcasting Service(en.wikipedia.org)
6y ago·6 comments
4 pts
Textile Factories and True Crime(nursingclio.org)
6y ago·discuss
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“Immoderate Menses” or Abortion?(nursingclio.org)
6y ago·discuss
97 pts
Endurance Running Hypothesis(en.wikipedia.org)
7y ago·53 comments
36 pts
Old Technologies Never Die, They Just Don’t Get Updated (2010)(academia.edu)
7y ago·18 comments
73 pts
A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)(longstreet.typepad.com)
7y ago·17 comments
176 pts
Dyson Tree(en.wikipedia.org)
7y ago·42 comments
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Sealab II: Porpoise Post and Life Beneath the Waves(navalhistory.org)
7y ago·7 comments
41 pts
Scholars Discover Original Locke Manuscript in Greenfield Library(sjc.edu)
7y ago·5 comments
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The Way to the Sea(granta.com)
7y ago·discuss
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The Conscience of a Revolutionary(bookforum.com)
7y ago·discuss
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Honest to a Fault: Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small(neh.gov)
7y ago·6 comments
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A Dinosaur That Started a Craze(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·1 comments
61 pts
The Ice Cream: A Recipe from 1687(rarecooking.com)
7y ago·49 comments
71 pts
Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)(publicdomainreview.org)
7y ago·9 comments
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The explosions, reenactments, and animals that made Vauxhall Gardens a hot spot(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·discuss
2 pts
From witchcraft to cheese theft: archive sheds light on 200 years of crime(theguardian.com)
7y ago·discuss
36 pts
The Most Choice Books(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·discuss
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This Place Is Pryson(lrb.co.uk)
7y ago·2 comments
46 pts
Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult(laphamsquarterly.org)
7y ago·2 comments
136 pts
On Oliver Sacks and His Obsession with Weightlifting(lithub.com)
7y ago·149 comments
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Psychedelic Art of the 1930s: Mescaline and Psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum(museumcrush.org)
7y ago·discuss
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The digressive, prescient brilliance of DH Lawrence’s essays(newstatesman.com)
7y ago·7 comments
38 pts
Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)(ciphermysteries.com)
7y ago·15 comments
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The Concrete Jungle(nybooks.com)
7y ago·discuss
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Sooty Feathers Tell the History of Pollution in American Cities(audubon.org)
7y ago·discuss
68 pts
The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014)(pbs.org)
7y ago·79 comments
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Diary of a Concussion (2017)(theverge.com)
8y ago·discuss
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Recipes for Honey-Drinks in the First Published English Beekeeping Manual(recipes.hypotheses.org)
8y ago·2 comments