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46,165karma·2,755submissions·June 2, 2014
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He has a fantastic eye for the interesting detail. Historical research is filled with fun things like this but for whatever reason, historians don't usually share them widely. Before his current …
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"According to informed sources, Hughes and Vidra didn’t bother to inform Foer that he was out of a job. Instead, the editor was placed in the humiliating position of having to phone Hughes to get…
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I love suggestion #4 (the Freemasonry/magic square one) but I suspect that the simpler first explanation is on the right track. This quibble from the article: "But did Dürer study crystals? …
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It's easy to point to examples when we construe art (as she does here) as including all forms of creative writing or storytelling. Just one example is work by many literary scholars on the 18th c…