delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
comic books are dangerous -- 5/31/17
"democracy" as a civil religion -- 5/30/17
america creates a new world order at bretton woods -- 5/26/17
we are surrounded by dinosaurs -- 5/25/17
norse mythology was foreboding -- 5/24/17
advertisement for tobacco in 1917 -- 5/23/17
audrey hepburn and the nazis -- 5/22/17
child refugees enter america -- 5/19/17
the founding of apple computer -- 5/18/17
clint eastwood in eighth grade -- 5/17/17
cannibalism became routine -- 5/16/17
'amazon' meant any woman rebel -- 5/15/17
high school football in texas -- 5/12/17
charlie chaplin and his mother -- 5/11/17
school for the very young in ancient japan - 5/10/17
no one knew quite what television would be good for -- 5/9/17
sending children to virginia -- 5/8/17
the samurai were a head hunting cult -- 5/05/17
the odd origin of cinco de mayo -- 5/04/17
taiping: the bloodiest war of the 19th century -- 5/03/17
when strikeouts lost their stigma -- 5/02/17
the origin of parliament -- 5/01/17