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There is one moment from the cross-country trip I took with my mother in 2007 that will probably forever live in my mind. We were on Highway 80 going through Nebraska in the middle of a blizzard....

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/the-negro-motorist-green-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-negro-motorist-green-book

You have just swept someone a magnificent, yet insolent, leg. You have interrupted a game of wist to introduce the players to your ward. You have been pronounced a social success by the greatest...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/23/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-regency-era-novel-written-after-the-end-of-the-regency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-regency-era-novel-written-after-the-end-of-the-regency

Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Catherine Cockburn, Bathsua Makin. You can take a philosophy degree, including Early Modern philosophy, and not...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/22/overlooked-early-modern-female-philosophers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=overlooked-early-modern-female-philosophers

1. I know the Kitty Genovese story wasn't exactly as egregious as it's become in our popular imagination, but Lord love me, I'm a follower, and there are few things I love more than the diminish...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/20/reasons-i-would-make-an-excellent-member-of-the-wild-hunt-and-you-should-consider-me-for-the-position/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reasons-i-would-make-an-excellent-member-of-the-wild-hunt-and-you-should-consider-me-for-the-position

The Gore Vidal collection at Harvard is substantial; it includes 394 cartons of material that take up 367 linear feet. The library also holds a 1-carton archive of James Trimble III. Just a few m...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/20/the-gore-vidal-papers-a-love-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-gore-vidal-papers-a-love-story

ALTERNATE GILMORE GIRLS' SERIES FINALES: THE MANY IMAGINARY DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER HAYDEN > I. The Motorcycle Crash II. Eaten By Bear at Zoo III. Slowly > Crushed By His Collect...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/16/the-toast-looks-back-the-best-of-fan-fiction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-toast-looks-back-the-best-of-fan-fiction

Hiring Nikki as managing editor two years ago was easily the best professional decision Nicole and I have ever made. I STILL HAVEN'T MET HER, which is outrageous, but nobody's fault (surely it's...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/09/the-best-of-nicole-chung/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-best-of-nicole-chung

I love Nicole so much, and I'm getting hit with the yearbook feelings, where I want to grab all of you in the hallways and make you promise that we are really going to keep in touch, and I have ...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/08/the-best-of-nicole-cliffe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-best-of-nicole-cliffe

In February 1943, when wartime rationing was at its height and many foreign luxuries were unobtainable in Britain, Marjorie Barber sent her friend, novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, a lemon in a jewele...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/07/dorothy-l-sayers-marjorie-barber/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dorothy-l-sayers-marjorie-barber

71 BC – Spartacus, leader of a slave rebellion against the Roman Empire. Although he was presumed killed in battle during the Third Servile War, his body was never found and his fate remains un...

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/07/an-update-to-wikipedias-list-of-people-who-disappeared-mysteriously/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-update-to-wikipedias-list-of-people-who-disappeared-mysteriously