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I was first exposed to an alternative history of Christopher Columbus, who we celebrate this Monday, reading Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s epochal A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. “When we read the…

A pair of white, heavy-duty miner’s pants pulled from a 1857 shipwreck, which auction officials described as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world, have sold at auction for $114,000. What do you think?“I hope they tried them on…