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Book of December 27, 2009
Before there was tvtropes.org (though not, of course, before tropes), Boswell wondered if Doorstop Babies were common in myth and legend because they are like quicksand or like divorce.
Puzzle of December 16, 2009
The Labour of the Months: December.
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Puzzle of November 17, 2009
The Hanseatic wharf in Bergen, Norway.
Book of November 9, 2009
A rollerskate tour of the current state of scholarship on this pivotal but ill-understood period in European history.
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Puzzle of November 6, 2009
The Labour of the Months: November. A swineherd knocks down ripe acorns for his pigs.
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Puzzle of October 9, 2009
The Labour of the Months: September. The grape harvest at the Château de Saumur.
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Puzzle of September 21, 2009
The Labours of the Months: August.
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Book of January 3, 2010
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, by Brian Fagan