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Every plate is a true story. Here are all of them.
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The stories whose shirts you can reserve today.
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Plate XIV
The Emu War of 1932: the true story
Western Australia, 1932. The army went to war with the emus. The emus stayed.
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Plate XV
The Soviet five-day week: when the weekend was abolished
Soviet Union, 1929. The weekend was abolished, and every worker got a different day off.
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Plate XVI
Napoleon's rabbit hunt, 1807: the legend
July 1807. Napoleon arranged a rabbit hunt, and the rabbits charged the Emperor.
More true stories
More true stories from the archive, to read.
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Plate VIII
Claudius and the three lost letters, 47 AD
Rome, AD 47. The emperor Claudius decided the Latin alphabet was three letters short, so he added them.
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Plate IX
Diogenes and Alexander: out of my sun
Corinth, around 336 BC. A young king offers a philosopher anything he wants. The philosopher asks him to move.
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Plate X
The Russian alphabet reform of 1918: use an apostrophe
Russia, 1918. The new government decided the alphabet had too many letters and took several of them away.
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Plate XI
Caligula's horse, candidate for consul
Rome, around AD 40. An emperor gave his racehorse a marble stable, a house and servants, and meant to make him consul.
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Plate XII
Thales and the well
Miletus, early in the sixth century BC. The first philosopher of Greece was so busy with the stars, the story goes, that he fell into a well.
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Plate XIII
Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake"
"Let them eat cake." The most famous thing Marie Antoinette never said.
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