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1. What did the Pilgrims see when they landed in Massachusetts, 400 years ago? A “hidious and desolate wilderness.” But they quickly learned to harvest its "great store of wild
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1. A century ago, an architect at McKim, Mead & White had a problem. He was working on New York’s General Post Office , and needed an inscription long enough
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1. I’d honestly forgotten I’d written this half a year before Donald Trump was elected, until the good doctor reminded me of it. A theory of how Trump’s performance of
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1. Short thread on how a writer failed to file his @TheAtlantic story by the assigned deadline, and we all ended up with “Mutiny on the Bounty." 2. In 1916,
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