The Life and Madness of Edward H. Rulloff
Visitors to Cornell University’s psychology department would be hard pressed to overlook the eight pickled brains, preserved in heavy glass jars, which are proudly showcased on the second floor of Uris...
View ArticleThe Witches of New York
In the 1850′s the humorist Mortimer Thomson, writing as Q. K. Philander Doesticks, set his sights on the fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, and astrologers of New York City. Under the pretense of wanting...
View ArticleWho was Madame Restell?
The cover of The New York Illustrated Times for February 23rd, 1878 depicts the arrest of the notorious abortionist Ann Lohman, alias “Madame Restell,” by the moral crusader Anthony Comstock. Flanked...
View ArticleThe Great Moon Hoax of 1835
Poppy fields, unicorns, and lunar man-bats featured in an 1835 series of articles in the New York Sun announcing the discovery of life on the moon.
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