Chris Daly and The Atlantic contemplate what’s become a running joke in our household: the gulf between the “top” stories and the “most emailed.” Related: the most emailed stories of 2008.
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Rob MacDougall
Two-Fisted Historian
Monthly Archives of December 2007
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Square America
“A gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography.” What’s the story behind 48 photos of women on late-night TV taken by a lonely photographer in 1957? Or the crazy 1970s swinger party? There are worlds within worlds in these pictures.
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The Farnsworth Invention
If your name is Aaron Sorkin, you are stealing my bit!
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Gernsblack
They got all this machinery, but that ain’t everything. We the machines inside the machines.
—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
It’s alternative history time, kids! This is something I wrote last year as part of an alternate history writing game. Some explanation follows at the end.
Granville Woods, W.C. Handy, Lewis Latimer
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Aka: Handy, John Henry, Gernsback-B
Tesla couldn’t do it. He was never going to do it. J.P. Morgan was standing on his neck for results and it didn’t matter. Tesla couldn’t make his wireless power caster work. Not until Tesla’s assistant, W.C. Handy, figured out the problem: Tesla’s coils were too tightly wound. Isn’t that always the way?
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If It Ain't Baroque…
You loved/tolerated Steampunk Star Wars: now it’s Baroque Star Wars! (Plus a side order of Calamity Jon robots.)
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