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Monday, April 26, 2021
Knickerbocker Dudes - a Window into the History and Origin of "Dude"
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A Fact: Young Lady (gazing for the first time upon the windows of the Knickerbocker Club): What a large family of boys there is in that ho...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Snorkeys, Red Caps and Railroad Tracks - a Melodramatic History of Amputee Baseball and the Tied-to-the-Tracks Trope
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“Snorkeys vs. Hoppers,” National Police Gazette , October 29, 1887. [i] The novel spectacle of eighteen men with but fifty-four limbs pr...
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