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Petiver

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Joined: Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 2:28 AM UTC
HN karma: 10,848
Public activity: 621 items
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About Petiver

He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."

Recent public activity

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'The Cheese and the Worms' by Carlo Ginzburg Review
Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:22 PM UTC
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Once More in Triple Time
Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 7:08 PM UTC
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A Dying Art: The last of the morticians
Fri, Jul 24, 2026, 4:50 AM UTC
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The Legend of the Gibbet
Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC
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Swift, Gay and Pope's season in the sun
Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC
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Reinventing the Renaissance
Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC
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Pass the Cherries: Review of Twilight of the Dons
Tue, Jun 02, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC
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Voting Before the Secret Ballot
Mon, May 11, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC
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Cordouan Lighthouse
Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC
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William Cecil's Succession Plan
Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC
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Living Without My Self
Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 3:51 AM UTC
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An Aroma Most Beguiling
Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC
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The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)
Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:34 PM UTC
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC
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Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:14 PM UTC
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Heart, head, life, fate
Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 3:29 AM UTC
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A History of Haggis (2019)
Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC
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The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right?
Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC
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Horace Fletcher
Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 7:55 AM UTC
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Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)
Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 12:38 PM UTC
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A Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars
Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:35 PM UTC
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Cat Gap
Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 4:09 AM UTC
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Comment #46182659
Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC
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A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson
Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 9:12 PM UTC
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The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 4:46 AM UTC