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Starting with Gene Autry’s recording of the song “Frosty the Snowman” in 1950, Frosty developed into a pervasive symbol of snowmen in America. Snowmen, though, have a much longer and more noteworthy history. According to Bob Eckstein, author of The History of the Snowman, the first image of a snowman appears in marginalia in a […] You’re moving into a new home, so you hire the skilled artist who decorated your current house to decorate your new home. For whatever reason, you fall behind paying him. Explicit drawings of 16 positions for sexual intercourse are on your walls when you go to see his work. That’s reportedly the situation Pope Clement […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez The Four Horsemen of Fake News (“Only a few years ago, the term ‘fake news’ was comedy routine fodder, a reflection of how surreal our politics have become. It’s not funny now.”) Nonbookish Linkage How to repair the American mind How newspapers became ubiquitous in the 1830s The first […] The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reportedly has one of the most challenging handgun qualification courses in the federal government. It mandates quarterly training firearms training and semiannual firearms qualification to ensure agents “maintain a high level of proficiency in the use and safety” of their weapons. So it would probably be a bit embarrassing if […] Between 1879 and 1896, the Rev. William D. Mahan, a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, issued three editions of previously unknown contemporary accounts of Jesus Christ’s life. There’s virtually unanimous agreement that his work is a fraud, and Mahan’s church suspended him for falsehood and plagiarism. Yet the last version, The Archko Volume, is […] |
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