On the eastern edge of Girard Cemetery, you'll find an unusual headstone featuring a century-and-a-half-old consumer tip, of sorts. And talk about tragic irony. The epitaph reads: "In memory of…
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It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan’s immense collection of books and art Toward the…
In order to catch liars, the ancient Chinese would sometimes give the accused a mouthful of uncooked rice during interrogation—and then ask the person to open wide. Dry rice would…
During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into powerful propaganda A selection of ballots from the 1860s shows a variety of…
With flinty perseverance and a golden touch, Belinda Mulrooney earned an unlikely fortune in the frozen north and reshaped the Canadian frontier
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Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.
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and on the graves of their loved ones