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Smithsonian In the late 1700s, a large percentage of Europeans feared the tomato. The deadly, deadly tomato. Photo Credit: *Kicki* via Compfight cc A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick and died after eating them, but the truth of the matter was that wealthy Europeans used pewter plates, which…

Un article du Paris Review “Depending on whom you ask, [Helena] Blavatsky – a fat, chain-smoking Russian noblewoman with a profane vocabulary and reputation for occult powers – was either one of the major innovators of modern religious thought or a complete fraud, her books works of great erudition and synthesis or piles of pasted…