My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
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Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.
Behind the Scenes: Mexico in World War II.
Standing the test: “Somewhere In Time’s” romantic audacity.
Low battery: Technology seems to be running out of steam.
The Verge
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
This classroom is where a famous Estonian novelist went to school and from which he drew much of his inspiration.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.
Standing the test: “Somewhere In Time’s” romantic audacity.
Low battery: Technology seems to be running out of steam.
Interiors: Napoleon’s Bedroom, Grand Trianon Palace, Versailles.
King of the “Contactees”: The bizarre UFO saga of George Adamski.
The Outer Garden
My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
Anyone who publicly refutes paranoid conspiracy theories becomes a target of the paranoiacs themselves.
Historian vs. AI: The technology sucks and is basically a scam.
Nuclear war: The existential threat we don’t talk about.
Nothingburger: The 2025 JFK Assassination document dump.
Historic Painting: “Katharsis” by José Clemente Orozco, 1934.
Historic Photo: Native American ice-cutting crew in winter, 1880s.
Year’s end: The best of the Garden in 2024.
The Inner Garden
Behind the Scenes: Mexico in World War II.
Yes, Mexico sent a squadron to the Pacific. But there's more to their WWII story than that.
Behind the Scenes: The Bounty, a geographic history.
Behind the Scenes: 1981, Britain’s Awful Year.
Behind the Scenes: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Explained & Deconstructed.
The strangest dictator: The odd world of Moammar Qaddafi.
Behind the Scenes: August 1939, Eve of War.
