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samclemens

24,629karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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71 pts
A magnificent 1850s house dubbed the Blue Belle of Brooklyn(ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2y ago·13 comments
41 pts
Mysteries of the Court of Miracles(reynolds-news.com)
2y ago·discuss
116 pts
The Early Days of American English(laphamsquarterly.org)
2y ago·60 comments
29 pts
Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry(themillions.com)
2y ago·18 comments
1 pts
A Harvard library mystery: Was a Titanic victim’s rare book a fake?(washingtonpost.com)
2y ago·discuss
57 pts
Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution(smithsonianmag.com)
3y ago·24 comments
20 pts
How iceberg won the lettuce wars(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·64 comments
12 pts
The headline-grabbing debate over which explorer reached the North Pole soonest(nytimes.com)
3y ago·4 comments
7 pts
A Man Who Transformed American Theater(theatlantic.com)
3y ago·4 comments
16 pts
A Repugnance to Autobiography(laphamsquarterly.org)
3y ago·discuss
48 pts
When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon(daily.jstor.org)
3y ago·78 comments
11 pts
The Master Fabulist of American Fiction(newyorker.com)
3y ago·1 comments
12 pts
Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·3 comments
43 pts
California Job Case(en.wikipedia.org)
3y ago·27 comments
63 pts
Impressions of American Hotels 1883-1898 (2022)(theamericanmenu.com)
3y ago·17 comments
68 pts
How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State’s Tourism Industry(smithsonianmag.com)
3y ago·32 comments
27 pts
Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood(newyorker.com)
3y ago·6 comments
26 pts
From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter(nytimes.com)
3y ago·14 comments
39 pts
A surprising dearth of spectacled bears(laphamsquarterly.org)
3y ago·3 comments
18 pts
How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee(newyorker.com)
3y ago·discuss
3 pts
At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities(nytimes.com)
3y ago·1 comments
128 pts
She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter(nytimes.com)
3y ago·66 comments
23 pts
How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long, Local History(atlasobscura.com)
3y ago·discuss
51 pts
The Tyranny of the Tale(newyorker.com)
3y ago·16 comments
67 pts
The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)(readex.com)
3y ago·19 comments
35 pts
Old Weird America: The Dark Comedies of Charles Portis(thepointmag.com)
3y ago·13 comments
4 pts
Burying Indiana Jones(newyorker.com)
3y ago·discuss
50 pts
Underage Enlistment in the United States and the Confederacy(commonplace.online)
3y ago·100 comments
14 pts
‘The Whiskey Rebellion’ Review: A Young Nation, Suddenly Tested(wsj.com)
3y ago·15 comments
37 pts
Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake(publicdomainreview.org)
3y ago·30 comments