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Contact Detours & Footnotes with questions, notes, corrections, ideas, or suggestions for future detours.
Questions, suggestions, corrections, strange historical rabbit holes, unusually good footnotes, and polite notes from the internet can be sent here:
For story ideas, specific is better than broad. An object, system, place, ritual, invention, cultural habit, or forgotten historical moment with a hidden story is usually more useful than a general topic.
For corrections, please include the article title and the relevant line or section. Accuracy is part of the fun, unfortunately.