William Pitt the Younger riding on the back of George III while surveying the French squadron, 1803. © Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris / Bridgeman Images.

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Volume IX, Number 1 | winter 2016

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A letter dated to the eighteenth century BC sent by a servant to Zimri-Lim, the king of Mari, details a system of long-distance signal fires, thought to be the first ever in use. 

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
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