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“A Man, a Plan, a Canal — Panama”: we all know the piece of infrastructure to which this famous palindrome refers. But who, exactly, is the man? Some might imagine President Theodore Roosevelt in the role, given his oversight of the project’s acquisition by the United States of America. But it’s more commonly thought to…
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Animated: The Rise & Fall of the Largest Cities in the World, from 3,000 BC to the 2020s
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This is the first era of human history when more of us live in cities than not. That’s what we’ve often been told in recent years, at least, though the specifics do depend on what kinds of urbanized areas you count as proper cities. Still, this would seem to mark an important inflection point in…
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Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman & More
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It can seem that the writing of literature and the theory of literature occupy separate great houses, Game of Thrones-style, or even separate countries held apart by a great sea. Perhaps they war with each other, perhaps they studiously ignore each other or obliquely interact at tournaments with acronymic names like MLA and AWP. Like…
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Meet the Man Who Created the Iconic Emblem of the Day of the Dead: José Guadalupe Posada
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Odds are you’re acquainted with the lady pictured above.
She’s called La Catrina, and her likeness adorns countless t-shirts and tote bags.
She is a popular Halloween costume and a mainstay of Day of the Dead celebrations.
She pops up in the animated family feature, Coco, to guide its…
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Jerry Garcia Explains How Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Changed His Life (1995)
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If you’re looking for a classic monster movie to watch this Halloween, and one that will also give you a few non-ironic laughs along the way, you’d do well to put on Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. But don’t take this recommendation from me: take it from the Grateful Dead’s own Jerry Garcia, who…
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