Card games spread along the same routes as trade and armies, mutating at every border. Here are seventeen, and what is known about where each came from.
1. Whist -…
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The caravan holiday was cheap, cramped, weather-dependent and enormously memorable, which is a fair summary of most good childhoods. Here are twelve things anyone who had them will recognise.…
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Almost nobody enjoyed it and almost everybody remembers the same details, which is a fair definition of a shared childhood experience. Here are ten.
1. The Smell of the…
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Writing a letter was a physical process with a dozen small stages, and every one of them is remembered by people who did it often. Here are seventeen.
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Every summer, park pavilions, church halls, and grandma's backyard fill with the great American family reunion — part feast, part census, part gentle competition — and while no two families…
A wedding invitation looks like a request for your company, but every couple, and every planner, knows it's really a small test of character, graded on a code of conduct…