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Oktoberfest 2014: Part XI: Honor Among Charlatans

Nov11

by chapeau on November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am

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└ Tags: Count Rumford, Elizabeth Bathory, Ignatius of Loyola

Oktoberfest 2014: Part XII: Oblivion’s Last Resort

Nov13

by chapeau on November 13, 2014 at 12:02 am

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Pietro Pomponazzi, the Aristotelian philosopher who denied the immortality of the soul in 1516, on The Count’s Cartoon History of Humanism, up now! Need more historical peregrinations? Follow us on Twitter!

└ Tags: Count Rumford, Newton

Revolution Prelude 2: Sealing the Dealing.

Jun02

by chapeau on June 2, 2016 at 4:02 pm

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Today on Women in Science the Count takes a look at Hertha Ayrton, electric arc master and inventor of the Ayrton Fan which, were it used more extensively in World War I, might have saved tens of thousands from gas-related […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: Count Rumford, Erzsebet Bathory, PT Barnum, sea lions

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Frederick Independence Day Special 2016: Sweet Treachery Mine.

Jul04

by chapeau on July 4, 2016 at 3:26 pm

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Thomas Paine’s end was one of the saddest to be inflicted upon any of the founding fathers. After Age of Reason, all of his former political allies, the men who owed the success of the revolution to his pen, entirely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: Count Rumford, Thomas Paine

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