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Adee Braun
Verified
Managing Editor, Scholastic Scope
New York, City, Long Isl
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Biography
Writer and editor of all things historical, including food, culture, cities, and many other things equal parts weird and wondrous.
Content
By James White, Lauren Groff Verified, Adee Braun Verified, Richard A. Friedman| New York Folk@ This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. For centuries, human beings feared the sea. “Any 17th-century European pirate could tell you terrifying tales of sea monsters dwelling in the dark waters,” Adee Braun wrote in 2013.
By Adee Braun Verified| Lapham's Quarterly Verified Each great civilization is plagued by its own particular infestation—the point at which the balance between man and vermin shifts uncomfortably in the direction of the critters. Biblical Egypt had its plague of locusts, modern New York City is terrorized by bedbugs, and Victorian London had a serious rat problem. Rats scurried around the city chewing up food, clogging up drains, passing around diseases, and frightening ladies.
By Adee Braun Verified| Lapham's Quarterly Verified On a late February afternoon in 1886, journalist and ornithologist Frank Chapman walked down one of New York City’s uptown shopping thoroughfares, eyeing women’s hats. Chapman was on a scientific mission. As he made his way through the fashionable crowds, he was busy identifying the overwhelming variety of bird feathers decorating the heads of the city’s ladies. Over the course of two such trips, Chapman counted 542 hats adorned with 174 different whole birds or their disembodied parts.
Company Info
Scholastic Scope
Long Island City, New York, United States