Category Archives: Imported
Cultural Continuity

Now for a dose of heritage and modernity: The first is on sale on ebay and I long to buy…

Update: Location, Research and Ideas

Although I don’t particularly like this blog to swing into the personal, I have been told by a person wiser…

The Lady Eve: 1940s Amazoniana

It should come as no surprise that I thrive on historic western impressions of the Amazon. I don’t think I…

Screaming Mummies and Stolen Paintings

Lately I have been on a art-crime reading kick. Nothing fancy, just popular non-fiction about art theft in my lighter…

The Cerebroteca: Brains in jars for learning? For fun?

I’ve been to Lima four times, but only twice did I leave the airport and only once was I there…

UNESCO status: Is delisting an effective deterrent?

The UNESCO World Heritage List. It has existed for decades. It contains nearly 1000 sites and areas. It has a…

Puritan Dilemma: A 17th Century Salem settler and a 1991 murder

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” – Cotton Mather I’ve never fully understood the general obsession…

US/Bolivia MOU Extended!

The US/Bolivia MOU has been extended! I and many other people have been on the edge of our seats over…

Jonestown vacation: Guyanese heritage?

The fella and I were talking about what we don’t know this morning. Specifically, which countries in the world that…

The Poe I didn’t know

This week I read The House of the Seven Gables for the first time and have been googling daguerrotypes like…

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