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Editor's drawer — From the July 1919 issue
Editor's drawer — From the April 1919 issue
Editor's drawer — From the May 1916 issue
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Editor's drawer — From the June 1911 issue
Fiction — From the June 1898 issue
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Fiction — From the September 1896 issue
Fiction — From the June 1896 issue
Fiction — From the August 1895 issue
illustration — From the November 1891 issue
Fiction — From the August 1889 issue
Fiction — From the July 1889 issue
Fiction — From the June 1889 issue
Fiction — From the May 1889 issue

Amount of cash CNN reporter Peter Arnett says he wore sewn into his clothes while covering the Gulf War:

Babies prefer to look at attractive people.

A woman testified that prostitutes at the “bunga bunga” parties thrown by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had dressed up as President Obama.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”