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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."
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How Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule book(newstatesman.com)
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The Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays(hyperallergic.com)
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Last supper: Like the pufferfish, wild mushrooms are for culinary daredevils(aeon.co)
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All Those New Dinosaurs May Not Be New Or Dinosaurs(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Embarrassing Ourselves: Geoffrey Bennington on 'Of Grammatology'(lareviewofbooks.org)
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Of Canons and Marginal Poets(queenmobs.com)
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The Outsiders (1987)(worlddreambank.org)
10y ago·7 comments
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The Alphabet of London(spitalfieldslife.com)
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Marooned Among the Polar Bears(popularmechanics.com)
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Dear Immanuel – Kant Gives Love Advice to a Heartbroken Young Woman (1791)(openculture.com)
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The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues(publicdomainreview.org)
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Wittgenstein, bewitched(the-tls.co.uk)
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Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)(publicdomainreview.org)
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The Lawlessness of Medicine(lareviewofbooks.org)
10y ago·28 comments
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Holbein and the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt–Vienna Renaissance mathematical nexus (2015)(thonyc.wordpress.com)
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The Blind Botanist Who Brought Poetry to Plant Description(atlasobscura.com)
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How Catherine de Medici Made Perfumed Gloves Fashionable(atlasobscura.com)
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Fistfights and Beggars: Found Street Life in Old Prints (1757)(longstreet.typepad.com)
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Transcribing Early Modern Recipes with the Crowd on Shakespeare's World(recipes.hypotheses.org)
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The Custodians: How the Whitney Is Changing the Art of Museum Conservation(newyorker.com)
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Healing Words: Quintus Serenus' Pharmacological Poem(recipes.hypotheses.org)
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women (2013)(collectorsweekly.com)
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Whales, Squirrils and other Victuals(lrb.co.uk)
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The Big Cow Con(story.californiasunday.com)
10y ago·9 comments
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Narcissiana: On Collecting(blog.longreads.com)
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A Medical Pop-Up Book from the 17th Century(smithsonianmag.com)
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The Science of Herbs and Spices(luckypeach.com)
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Dried flowers with a story(library.leiden.edu)
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In the Madhouse(theparisreview.org)
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