Gunshot, Sunday, 4/7/18
We’re in our yard. The gunshot we hear is everywhere near. We live in the desert outside Tucson city limits. Our neighbors to the south have a shotgun and the neighbors to their south probably do too....
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In early March, hundreds of square miles in Oklahoma are burning. ‘Never seen anything like it’˛ says one official. Last year’s rains produced a bumper grass crop now tinder in this year’s drought....
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In 1966 David Jones became David Bowie. The musician would become a solo star. Before global fame Bowie featured in a number of groups as Davie Jones or Davy Jones, including: The Manish Boys (vocals...
View ArticleMade in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London
Benjamin Breen on the remarkable story of George Psalmanazar, the mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now modern Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated...
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