I’m sure it’s nothing. image
We paid $70,000 in current dollars for the Declaration of Independence in 1947, approximately a 99% discount on what it would cost you today. image
Did I buy this to complement the American cookbook collection at the Schlesinger Library and because it has a contemporary female ownership inscription? Yes. Did I buy it because it calls people who work in food preparation the "Officers of the Mouth"? Also yes. #NewAcquisition image
At the rate I go through letterhead and business cards I’ll have to restock if I stay in this job another century or two.
This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition image
I'm learning a lot about my distinguished colleague President Summers.
Verify you are human: click here to feel ongoing anxiety about whether you badly handled a minor interaction the other person involved forgot about 10 seconds later.
β€œYou know what happened to the last man who crossed me? I ate him.” image
Maybe Amtrak should have just one β€œPeople are Allowed to Talk Car.”The default is all wrong here.
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