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How to Dine Like an Ancient Philosopher

An ancient book contains a controversial Greek recipe, one of the earliest examples of patent law, and answers for a perennial problem: how to make conversation at a dinner party.  Learn more about Deipnosophistae. 

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  Where You Would Spend Your Last Day Before the Apocalypse

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  Civic Musical Road (Classic)

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  The Cigar “Readers” of Cuba

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  The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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  Ivan the Terra Bus

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  Happy Pride: Mapping the Gay Guides (Classic)

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  It’s Getting Hot in Here (Classic)

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  Four Rooms at the Omni Parker House Hotel

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  More First Travel Dates

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  The Biblioburro

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  Why Is There a Statue of Columbo in Budapest?

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  The Coffee Palace (Classic)

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  Ashley House (Classic)

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  The Bible with a Massive Portrait of a Devil Inside

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  The Mysterious Drones at Langley Air Force Base

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  Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, an…