Noted Things ...

On Sunday 22 October, Henrik at Recent Finds will host an Early Modern edition of (use the form for nominations); and John McKay will host the Carnival of Bad History at archy (use the form for nominations).

In"Shakespeare Re-Mixed," Chapati Mystery, 15 October, Sepoy challenges us to help him flesh out a syllabus for a course on"Shakespeare in Asian Cinema."

Brett Holman's"Interwar Use of Chemical Weapons," Airminded, 13 October, launched several discussions, both about that and about dating the beginningof World War II.

William Grimes,"Taking Swings at a Myth, with John Henry the Man," NYTimes, 18 October, reviews Scott Reynolds Nelson's Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Bruce Springsteen sings"John Henry" on YouTube.

Then, there's Ben McGrath's"Aleksey the Great," New Yorker, 23 October, on a Yalie who freshens up his cv to create his own legend in our time.

Finally, Chris Bray calls our attention to Jeff Stein's"Can You Tell a Sunni from a Shiite?" NYTimes, 17 October. Apparently, you go to war with the ignorati who sent you and Stein hasn't even interviewed"America's Dumbest Congressmen."