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dek: "Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?"
The New Yorker / by Nathan Heller
1665: The first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is published. The journal has been in publication ever since.
"Oldenburg's compulsive letter writing to foreign correspondents led to him being suspected of being a spy for the Dutch and interned in the Tower of London in 1667. A rival took the opportunity to publish a pirate issue of Philosophical Transactions, with the pretense of it being Issue 27. Oldenburg repudiated the issue by publishing the real 27 upon his release." -- from