A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• A 16th-century nose job.
• 17 of the world’s oldest films.
• The art of the 1950s motel postcard.
• The Reformation according to LEGO.
• 20 beautiful color photos of Tsarist Russians.
• J.D. Salinger and the case of the missing testicle?
• Do historians need to pay more attention to sound?
• Interactive maps compare 19th-century cities to today.
• 1940s film advises teenagers on proper prom behavior.
• The map that Lincoln used to see the reach of slavery.
• Spin the wheel of death! How would you have died in 1811?
• Rush Limbaugh pens an “unbiased” children’s history book.
• The 1931 plan to turn the pyramids into an amusement park.
• Marie Curie, extramarital affairs, and dueling with swords and pistols.

*Image courtesy of Retornaut: c. 1831: “Woman aged 23, before and after cholera.”