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user: Petiver created: 2014-12-02 karma: 10824 He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners." submissions: Reinventing the Renaissance 12 points | 2 comments Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons 6 points | 0 comments Voting Before the Secret Ballot 1 points | 0 comments Cordouan Lighthouse 38 points | 6 comments William Cecil's Succession Plan 8 points | 0 comments Living Without My Self 1 points | 0 comments An Aroma Most Beguiling 2 points | 0 comments The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026) 25 points | 11 comments The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV 77 points | 15 comments Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History 28 points | 7 comments Heart, head, life, fate 19 points | 6 comments A History of Haggis (2019) 38 points | 16 comments The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right? 1 points | 1 comments Horace Fletcher 1 points | 0 comments Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865) 11 points | 0 comments A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars 3 points | 0 comments Cat Gap 216 points | 59 comments A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson 42 points | 121 comments The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) 52 points | 10 comments A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) 18 points | 6 comments Seeking Signs of Life on Venus 3 points | 0 comments Enchanting Imposters 33 points | 1 comments Enchanting Imposters 8 points | 1 comments Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War 2 points | 0 comments Lonely Island Adventures 3 points | 0 comments The Rise of 'Conspiracy Physics' 2 points | 1 comments Crocodile Relative Was One of Dinosaurs' Most Fearsome Predators 3 points | 0 comments Creatures Apart: Shulamith Firestone's portraits of madness 3 points | 0 comments