Reads by Michelle Legro

The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions: Vintage Arsenal of Masonic Pranksters

What Elks, Moose, and Shriners have to do with a fake guillotine and a goat on wheels.

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A Brief Visual History of Robots in a Matrix of Creepiness & Intelligence

What Louis XV has to do with H.G. Wells and the hazards of mechanical animation.

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Reads by Michelle Legro

What Elks, Moose, and Shriners have to do with a fake guillotine and a goat on wheels.

What Louis XV has to do with H.G. Wells and the hazards of mechanical animation.

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