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Drinks With Dead People ran from 2014 – 2022

as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.

Drinks With Dead People ran from 2014 – 2022

as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.

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Thomas Nashe

Have a drink with: Thomas Nashe It was the merry month of February… Ask him about: Valentine’s Day plans Though he lived in Elizabethan England, Thomas Nashe was not an unfamiliar figure to modern thinking: in his twenties, Nashe was out of college, short on funds and trying to make it as a writer in…

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Fanny Hill

Have a drink with: Fanny Hill Grin grin, wink wink, say no more? Ask her about: Sex and the (eighteenth-century) city My friend Dan Klau, who writes a wonderful appellate law blog at Appealingly Brief, and who also just launched a government-accountability site at CT Good Governance – because transparency is very cool – recently posted this…

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