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Cartoon — From the August 1931 issue
Article — From the May 1920 issue
Swinburne–Carlyle–Jowett–Browning–Bulwer Lytton
Editor's drawer — From the October 1909 issue
Editor's easy chair — From the July 1903 issue
Literary notes — From the July 1895 issue
Editor's study — From the September 1892 issue
Literary notes — From the June 1892 issue
Editor's study — From the August 1889 issue
Editor's study — From the August 1887 issue
Editor's study — From the May 1887 issue
Editor's study — From the May 1887 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.”