Archive - Lists of Note

Wartime golf rules

May 22

Things Nora Ephron won't and will miss

May 15

In which F. Scott Fitzgerald conjugates the verb "to cocktail"

May 13

...dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits...

May 8

An index of modern delights

May 1

...in Japan, in the year 1000

Apr 24

Snow White and the Fifty Dwarfs

Apr 17

The many sins of 19-year-old Isaac Newton

Apr 10

Advice for women cyclists in 1895

Apr 3

When "damn" was shown the door

Mar 27

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