Robert Marchant

Journalist, author, student of history, Orwell fan, marathon man. Tips/story ideas to [email protected].

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@OldNewYork1664 Neat, I enjoy your posts, keep up the good work.

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@DrugGovoruna @CathyYoung63 Stalin personally requested the Allied bombardment of Dresden, btw.

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@gruss_josh @HarvardAlumni Hi Josh, hello from Greenwich Time newspaper. Thanks for the note, sounds like an intriguing concept, let's be in touch. Regards, Rob

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Thanks to the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Westchester, @HarvardAlumni and everyone who turned out for my virtual book talk last Thursday. It's always rewarding to see so many fellow history fans in the room. #westchesterhistory #nyshistory #mcfarlandcopub https://t.co/ZnkShIi0iQ

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@mohanrs Hey, in case you didn't see it before:
[email protected]

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@mohanrs My email is [email protected]

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

When I was a kid every major league team had at least one middle infielder who hit .218 every year with one wind-aided home run and they were goddamn glad to have him.

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@joshtpm "Word horde," the Anglo-Saxon original, is definitely preferable to "vocabulary"

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@ZaleskiLuke Beautiful obituary, and I say that as a professional student of the genre.

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@Noahpinion Yes, a British railway consultant who worked in Italy in the 1930's said the trains never ran on time. He made it his life's mission to set the record straight.

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@GarfieldNPS @HC_Richardson @USNavy Unsung hero of the Union. Brave man, too.

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@tsizemorepix @GreenwichTime These rankings are based on data sets that have little to do with what most people think of as "fun." North Dakota well ahead on CT, come on!

[cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman]

here’s David Lynch on the beauty of mystery

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@HeerJeet Also check out "Paper Moon."

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@jobethkroeker @KenBorsuk1 Let us know if guillotines are involved.

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

Vincent Price visits Edgar Allen Poe's grave in Baltimore in 1976

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@wfuv What a New York treasure.

[Austin Kleon @austinkleon]

How to celebrate Emily Dickinson's birthday:

- stay home
- bake something
- garden a bit
- write a poem on the back of an envelope and hide it in a trunk

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Anniversary not complete without some bubbly and romance. Great night.