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- The Early History of Counting https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-history-counting 18 comments
- A Brief History of Frankincense https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/brief-history-frankincense 19 comments
- Humans being confounded by color photography https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/new-look-same-great-look 18 comments
- The last days of William Blake https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/god-has-beautiful-mansion-me-elsewhere 11 comments
- Seizing the Means of Audio Production https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/seizing-means-audio-production 13 comments
- Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/scene-stealer 10 comments
- Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/studying-script 3 comments
- Following the oud through the history of Armenian music https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/variations-theme 3 comments
- What driveling times are these! Georgian grumblings on an age of decline https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/what-driveling-times-are-these 18 comments
- Merlin's Owl (2003) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/merlins-owl 2 comments
- In the Beginning, There Were Taxes https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/beginning-there-were-taxes 74 comments
- Ubiquitous Medieval Pigs https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ubiquitous-medieval-pigs 19 comments
- Watch Out: Music served as a through line during Zimbabwe’s fight for democracy https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/watch-out 2 comments
- How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/bring-him-home 2 comments
- An Inflammation of Place https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/inflammation-place 2 comments
- The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days 55 comments
- Before the East India Company https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/east-india-company 60 comments
- I Do Not Marry a Married Man https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/i-do-not-marry-married-man 66 comments
- Hell Breaks Loose https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/happiness/hell-breaks-loose 14 comments
- Vulgar Bodies and Nasty Trades https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/vulgar-bodies-and-nasty-trades 11 comments
- Egil the Mean: The violent backstory of a Viking poet https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/egil-mean 3 comments
- The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/defining-privacy-and-then-getting-rid-it?page=all 2 comments
- The Cross-Examined Life: Socrates Debates the Laws https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/cross-examined-life 8 comments
- “Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always 106 comments
- W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs (1903) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/music/unforgettable 6 comments
- Petrified Forest http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fear/petrified-forest 16 comments
- Waiting for Goffman http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/city/waiting-goffman 6 comments
- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/spies/open-inspection 26 comments
- (2005) Kurt Vonnegut draws the shapes of stories at the blackboard https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/blackboard 70 comments books
- Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/blackboard 78 comments books
- When Women Ruled Fashion http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fashion/when-women-ruled-fashion 7 comments history
- Tecumseh, 1811: "Soon their broad roads will pass over the grave of your fathers, and the place of their rest will be blotted out forever. The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe." http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/tecumseh-brings-the-choctaws-and-chickasaws-the-voice-of-rebellion.php?page=all 4 comments history
- There are really only two major players left in the book business, Amazon and Google. Everyone else is trying to figure out the best way to go bankrupt. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/the-late-word.php 69 comments technology
- Thanks to the work of Harvey Washington Wiley, his valiant poison squads, and a host of other crusaders, we don’t fear being killed by arsenic-dyed candy or formaldehyde-improved milk, as we once did. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/death-in-the-pot.php?page=all 10 comments history
- "Barnum knew that America was a nation of believers who, thanks to their pragmatism, didn’t actually believe in much of anything, although they said that they did." http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/reconsiderations/hatching-monsters.php?page=all 3 comments history
- Vanishing Act - A fairy tale, a tragedy and a still-unresolved mystery of a child genius http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/vanishing-act.php?page=all 11 comments books
- Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php?page=all 21 comments books
- Dickens in Lagos - To understand life in Lagos, it helps to read Dickens, and vice-versa. The great cities of the developing world are a century or two behind the West, full of the colour and characters of 19th-century novels http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/dickens-in-lagos.php?page=all 3 comments worldnews
- Think you know who the highest paid sportsman of all-time is? I bet you have no idea. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/greatest-of-all-time.php 7 comments sports
- Since we have Chomsky and Bukowski at the top I thought I'd add in a little Kurt Vonnegut: "I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily" http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php 4 comments books