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Writer, traveler, lover of pickled things, filigree, and history of food, culture, cities, and small European nations. adeebraun.com

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Writer and editor of all things historical, including food, culture, cities, and many other things equal parts weird and wondrous.

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The 19th-Century Night Soil Men Who Carted Away America's Waste

The 19th-Century Night Soil Men Who Carted Away America's Waste

Cities used to be literally full of crap.

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Eating Spaghetti by the Fistful Was Once a Neapolitan Street Spectacle

Eating Spaghetti by the Fistful Was Once a Neapolitan Street Spectacle

Tourists flocked to see the “macaroni eaters” cram noodles into their mouths.

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Misunderstanding Orange Juice as a Health Drink

Misunderstanding Orange Juice as a Health Drink

Juice is, nutritionally, not much better than soda. How did U.S. consumers come to believe that oranges, in a…

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Looking to Quell Sexual Urges? Consider the Graham Cracker

Looking to Quell Sexual Urges? Consider the Graham Cracker

One of America's first diet hawks, Sylvester Graham was certain that sexual desire was ruining society. His s…

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The Historic Healing Power of the Beach

The Historic Healing Power of the Beach

When doctors prescribed sun and sea, to improve circulation and contract tumors

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Alone Together: The Return of Communal Restaurant Tables

Alone Together: The Return of Communal Restaurant Tables

As more establishments seat people in close proximity, friendships are not forged.

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Is the Beach Actually Any Fun?

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By James White, Lauren Groff Verified, Adee Braun Verified, Richard A. Friedman
| newyorkfolk.com
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. For centuries, human beings feared the sea. “Any 17th-century European pirate could tell you terrifying tales of sea monsters dwelling in the dark waters,” Adee Braun wrote in 2013.
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Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher

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By Adee Braun Verified
| Lapham's Quarterly Verified
Each great civilization is plagued by its own particular infestation—the point at which the balance between man and vermin shifts uncomfortably in the direction of the critters. Biblical Egypt had its plague of locusts, modern New York City is terrorized by bedbugs, and Victorian London had a serious rat problem. Rats scurried around the city chewing up food, clogging up drains, passing around diseases, and frightening ladies.
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Fine-Feathered Friends

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By Adee Braun Verified
| Lapham's Quarterly Verified
On a late February afternoon in 1886, journalist and ornithologist Frank Chapman walked down one of New York City’s uptown shopping thoroughfares, eyeing women’s hats. Chapman was on a scientific mission. As he made his way through the fashionable crowds, he was busy identifying the overwhelming variety of bird feathers decorating the heads of the city’s ladies. Over the course of two such trips, Chapman counted 542 hats adorned with 174 different whole birds or their disembodied parts.
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