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Agloe: The Made-Up Town That Outsmarted Cartographers
Mapmakers planted a fake village as a copyright trap; a shopkeeper put up a sign and the forgery turned into fact, which is deliciously petty and brilliant.Read More
Rue: The Smelly Herb That Bossed-Off Bad Luck
Folks from Naples to Nuevo Leon used bitter rue-ruda-to hang over cradles, sprinkle in doorways and bathe babies so jealous eyes and nasty luck would take a hike.Read More
The Car That Wanted A Mini Nuclear Heart (and Nope)
In 1958 Ford sketched a tiny car with a nuclear reactor in its butt and the 1950s were charmingly delusional about that sort of thing.Read More
Most Of The Clitoris Lives Inside, Mate
You only see the bonnet; the rest is a lumpy, lovemaking apparatus that sprawls like a secret map under the skin.Read More