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10,905 karma · joined December 2, 2014

He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."
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World Wide Words

worldwidewords.org·41 pts·Petiver·
3

William Buckland's Theology of Geology

historytoday.com·7 pts·Petiver·
0

The Empire of Information

lareviewofbooks.org·34 pts·Petiver·
10

Why Human Giants Defy the Laws of Physics

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·3 pts·Petiver·
0

The Ultimate Horse

worksinprogress.co·55 pts·Petiver·
15

'The Cheese and the Worms' by Carlo Ginzburg Review

historytoday.com·21 pts·Petiver·
8

Once More in Triple Time

theamericanscholar.org·4 pts·Petiver·
0

A Dying Art: The last of the morticians

harpers.org·54 pts·Petiver·
16

The Legend of the Gibbet

historytoday.com·3 pts·Petiver·
0

Swift, Gay and Pope's season in the sun

theguardian.com·3 pts·Petiver·
0

Reinventing the Renaissance

drb.ie·41 pts·Petiver·
11

Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons

literaryreview.co.uk·6 pts·Petiver·
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Voting Before the Secret Ballot

historytoday.com·1 pts·Petiver·
0

Cordouan Lighthouse

en.wikipedia.org·38 pts·Petiver·
6

William Cecil's Succession Plan

historytoday.com·8 pts·Petiver·
0

Living Without My Self

aeon.co·1 pts·Petiver·
0

An Aroma Most Beguiling

orionmagazine.org·2 pts·Petiver·
0

The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)

quillette.com·25 pts·Petiver·
11

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

historytoday.com·77 pts·Petiver·
15

Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

publicdomainreview.org·28 pts·Petiver·
7

Heart, head, life, fate

lrb.co.uk·19 pts·Petiver·
6

A History of Haggis (2019)

historytoday.com·38 pts·Petiver·
16

The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?

theguardian.com·1 pts·Petiver·
1

Horace Fletcher

en.wikipedia.org·1 pts·Petiver·
0

Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)

publicdomainreview.org·11 pts·Petiver·
0

A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars

newrepublic.com·3 pts·Petiver·
0

Cat Gap

en.wikipedia.org·216 pts·Petiver·
59

A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson

historynewsnetwork.org·42 pts·Petiver·
121

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

publicdomainreview.org·52 pts·Petiver·
10

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

publicdomainreview.org·18 pts·Petiver·
6
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