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fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

The First Time America Went Beard Crazy

In the beginning, not a whisper of a whisker-not on Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, or Monroe. In the early nineteenth century, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren change things up with fluffy muttonchops that drift like snow from ears to laugh lines.
Washington DC
philosophy
fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

Almost Zion: Remembering a short-lived Jewish state in New York

Mordecai Manuel Noah's vision of Ararat as a Jewish city-state was ultimately unfulfilled as no Jews chose to settle there.
fromtime.com
10 months ago

How the Documentary Lover of Men Makes the Case That Abraham Lincoln Was Gay

"The academics featured in the film argue that the former president battled an identity crisis throughout his life: he was married because he had to be at the time to advance politically, but he also had intimate relationships with men."
NYC LGBT
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