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Article — From the July 1908 issue
IV.–Wall Street under the Continental Congress
Fiction — From the January 1908 issue
Article — From the September 1907 issue
The United States vs. Callender
Article — From the July 1907 issue
The uncovering of an historic trial
Article — From the January 1907 issue
An international lawsuit
Article — From the November 1906 issue
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Article — From the July 1906 issue
The Commonwealth vs. Brown–the prelude to the Civil War
Editor's drawer — From the October 1904 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Aaron Huey.

