Chris Holmes
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This hand-drawn Anti-Slavery Alphabet from 1846 is a fascinating artifact of America in the stormy, pre-Civil War
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When Popdose Grand Poobah Jeff Giles asked me to write a list article for his site, I couldn’t say no. The only question I had for him was, “what content restraints am I working
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In honor of Notre Dame's return to the top of the college football rankings, let's look at pop culture from the last time it happened in
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Enjoy these vintage scans from Willard Bonte's fantastical 1904 children's book, Fun and Nonsense. Anthropomorphic fun for the whole
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Who needs color to get the most, um, pleasure out of television? Not RCA Victor, offering a new set in fifty shades of
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Let me tell you, you do NOT want to get tangled up with Satan’s
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Are we all just geniuses waiting to happen? David Shenk sure thinks so, as his book 'The Genius in All of Us'
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A look back at the biggest movies, songs and books for the week of January 5-11, 1992 - a time when the stench of the '80s still hung in the
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Wherein Chris Holmes picked up a copy of a memoir from engineer Phill Brown and ended up adding a bunch of new albums to his music