Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies, by Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom, 1599. Rijksmuseum.
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The head female of a paper-wasp nest allows others to occupy space in her home—so long as they help raise her offspring. The labor market is, however, elastic: if other nests nearby have childcare needs, she maintains a lower work requirement from her “helper” wasps.
God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877Lapham’s
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