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Yesterday, we here at Project Whimwit were proud to bring you Lincoln’s Broadsword Adventure. Today, we give you Victorian burial practices, in which we learn that high end caskets came with bells attached and attendants standing at the ready to dig you right out–just in case you were napping, and not really dead.
From Vampires: A […]
Is Getty Images really this bad at Photoshop , and what, in God’s name, is this:
…doing on the New York Times front web page?!
I mean, is that honestly a giant hand with a glowing sphere? I must say I like how Ahmadinejad is bowing in this picture: away from the hand of God, […]
I’ve heard of Lincoln-Douglas debates. I think I might have accidentally had one. But Lincoln-Shields duel?
Lincoln stated that the weapons he wished to use would be “Cavalry Broadswords of the largest size”. He figured that he could easily disarm Shields using the swords, whereas pistols would most likely lead to one of their deaths, […]
A couple of weeks ago, I fiddled with Kaavya Viswanathan’s book in a store and thought it looked like it would make for fun lazy day reading. When the New York Times Book Review ran a profile on Miss Viswanathan, I was glad to see that the author is young, beautiful and going to […]