Time was, Time is… February 2012
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- 15th Century
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- Christopher Columbus
- digital wireless
- economics
- Hedy Lamarr
- humanism
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- Industrial Revolution
- Nazi weaponry
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- United States elections
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- May We Suggest
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February 3, 2012 | madame librarian
1493: uncovering the new world Columbus created by Charles C. Mann
Almost president: the men who lost the race but changed the nation by Scott Farris
Hedy's folly: the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world by Richard Rhodes
The swerve: how the world became modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Why America failed: the roots of imperial decline by Morris Berman