delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject

sweet melissa -- 9/22/23

quantum mechanics -- 9/20/23

new york’s newspaper wealth -- 9/19/23

americans were “a despicable people” -- 9/18/23

the first digital camera -- 9/15/23

w.c. fields' revival -- 9/15/23

amalgamation -- 9/14/23

germany and food -- 9/12/23

the revolutionary -- 9/12/23

charlie chaplin -- 9/8/23

philadelphia -- 9/7/23

a war on cancer? -- 9/6/23

operation gomorrah -- 9/5/23

the diagetic song -- 9/1/23

johnny appleseed helped spread alcohol across america -- 8/31/23

galen and medicine -- 8/30/23

the first latin american debt crisis -- 8/29/23

marshall field -- 8/28/23

hollywood and the blacklist -- 8/25/23

mosquitos were already resistant to ddt -- 8/24/23

francis bacon and the scientific method -- 8/23/23

solfatara -- 8/22/23

the british tax america -- 8/21/23

American Graffiti -- 8/18/23

horseshoes and harnesses -- 8/17/23

the double helix -- 8/16/23

the queen’s investments -- 8/15/23

john jacob astor -- 8/14/23

yesterday -- 8/11/23

china and the metaverse -- 8/10/23

brittlestars are eyes -- 8/9/23

Catiline promises a debt cancellation (tabulae novae) -- 8/8/23

trust busting -- 8/7/23

rodgers and hart -- 8/4/23

olivia de havilland, the breast, and christian dior -- 8/3/23

enchantment

the asterisk -- 8/1/23

the bank of virginia -- 7/31/23

the origin of the @ -- 7/28/23

the ladies’ magazine -- 7/27/23

charles darwin and emotions

looting moscow -- 7/25/23

the sugar trust -- 7/24/23

a day in the life -- 7/21/23

"crops without plowing the ground" -- 7/20/23