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Objects of Intrigue: Teaching Machines of the 20th Century

Ella Morton September 8, 2015
Martha in a display case in the National Museum of Natural History, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon

Ella Morton September 1, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: The Gypsy Robe, a Broadway Tradition

Ella Morton August 25, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: The Turk, a Mechanical Chess Player that Unsettled the World

Ella Morton August 18, 2015
John Harrison's H1 marine timepiece
London, England

John Harrison's Marine Chronometers

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.
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The Real Housewives of Ancient Egypt Had 8-Foot-Long Prenups

Cara Giaimo August 12, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: A Nuclear Reactor's Tombstone

Stockholm, Sweden

Codex Gigas (The Devil's Bible)

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
atom bombs

Object of Intrigue: Glass Made by an Atomic Bomb

Ella Morton July 14, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: The Devil's Bible

Ella Morton July 7, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: The Possibly Viking Runestone of Massachusetts

Jeremy Berke June 16, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: The Most Beautiful Banknote in U.S. History

Ella Morton June 9, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: The Hidden Hillary Clinton Bench

Ella Morton May 19, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: 19th-Century Greenlandic Seal Fur G-String

Ella Morton April 21, 2015
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Object of Intrigue: Edwin Booth's Letter to a Grieving Nation

Ella Morton April 14, 2015
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An Atlas in Cloth: Captain Cook’s Rarely-Seen Fabric Book

Kristin Winet January 21, 2015
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Objects of Intrigue: Cherry, the Dog Who Knew Too Much

Melissa Lesnie January 20, 2015
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Objects of Intrigue: The Infernal Machine

Allison Meier January 15, 2015