Blithering Antiquity©

The Magazette of Historical Curiosities, Inquiries & Intrigues

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CURRENT ISSUE
Autumn 2005
Things you may not have learned about the Lewis & Clark expedition, the original "handwriting on the wall," the confusing Wards (Arte & Arte), and the Great Blithering Antiquity quiz.

 

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Summer 2005
Telephones—all a matter of "switching," the founder of the U.S. cavalry, Enrico Caruso's encounters with the mob, and the Great Blithering Antiquity quiz.

Spring 2005
Antiquarian billiards, the three riot "queens" of St. Croix, the 1903 Iroquois Theatre disaster in Chicago (as the chorus sang "In the Pale Moonlight"), and the Great Blithering Antiquity quiz.

Winter 2004-05
The remarkable Inuit, self-taught scholar/missionary William Carey, 20th-Century journalism's loose cannon (that would have to be Mencken), and as always, the Great Blithering Antiquity quiz.

January/February 2004
George Washington weathers the odds, the Taj Mahal, Wisconsiniana, the year that had no summer, world records you'll probably never challenge, the end of Trotsky, etc.

 

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