The Sisters of Sinai

At the tail end of the 19th century, two sisters -- identical twins from Scotland -- discovered a palimpsest that revealed the earliest known copies of the Gospels. The story of their scriptural revelation, and their remarkable lives, is told herein.

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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