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  • Jul 31, 2007

    Why do we eat candy at the movies?

    by Cliopatria

    ... Today, concessions are the lifeblood of the theater business: According to the National Association of Theatre Owners, they account for approximately 40 percent of theaters' net revenue. But it wasn't always this way.

    In 1905, the advent of nickelodeon theaters changed the landscape of American entertainment, which was still dominated by live performances, from stage plays to vaudeville. By 1907, around 3,000 nickelodeon theaters had opened, and by 1914 an estimated 27 percent of

  • Jul 31, 2007

    One Day in History: September 11, 2001, ed. by Rodney P. Carlisle

    by Cliopatria

    [From the Publisher]

    Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual, popular encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history. ONE DAY IN HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 11

  • Jul 31, 2007

    Things Noted Here and There

    by Cliopatria

    Kevin Levin will host History Carnival LV on Wednesday 1 August at Civil War Memory. Send your nominations of the best in history blogging since 1 July to Kevlvn*at*aol*dot *com or use the form. Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology/archaeology carnival, will go up on Wednesday 1 August at Afarensis. Send nominatio
  • Jul 28, 2007

    Saturday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    David Lyons reviews James Millward's Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Asia Sentinel, 28 July.

    Michael Dobson,"Let him be Caesar!" LRB, 2 August, reviews Nigel Cliff's The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America.

    In ‘

  • Jul 27, 2007

    July 23, 2007

    by Cliopatria

  • Re: He Only Saved a Billion People Jonathan Alter :

    It's a trifecta much bigger and rarer than an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony. Only five people in history have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal: Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel ... and Norman Borlaug.

    Norman who? Few news organizations covered last week

  • Jul 24, 2007

    More Noted Things

    by Cliopatria

    At Progressive Historians, Ahistoricality poses a question about the appropriate relationship between advertising and editorial policy in professional journals. If I'm not mistaken, some journals have occasionally even had agreements with a private interest to underwrite the cost of a whole issue of the journal. So long as such arrangements are openly acknowledged, I'm not sure that there's a problem, but it's an