Tag: Atheist

Art History

In 1989, a Philadelphia financial analyst visited a flea market in Adamstown, Pa., spotted an old painting whose frame he liked, and purchased it for $4. When he removed the frame, he found a folded document between the…

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Modern Ills

“Twelve Ways to Commit Suicide,” from the American Medical Journal, reprinted in the Manhattan and de la Salle Monthly, 1875: Wearing of thin shoes and cotton stockings on damp nights and in cold, rainy weather. Wearing insufficient clothing,…

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