On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison stood on the East Portico of the Capitol in a cold Washington rain — sixty‑eight years old, no overcoat, no hat, no gloves — and delivered the longest inaugural address in American history: 8,445 words, one hour and forty‑five minutes. Then he
Picture the counter of a mail-order pharmacy in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In the display case, alongside arsenic complexion wafers and mercury-laced "nerve tonics," sits a small tin promising something even more remarkable. Its label: Sanitized Tape Worms. Jar-packed. Easily swallowed. No
On September 13, 1979, at 369 South Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Jane Fonda cut the ribbon on a mirrored three-room studio called Workout. She was 41, wearing a silver leotard and black leggings, and within weeks about two thousand women a week were streaming through the doors. Three