Sunday Edition

Making Men Newsletter #5

Author

Mick Lee
March 26, 2023

From the Editor

Welcome to another edition of Making Men. In this issue I’m sharing with you links to articles that I think you’ll find interesting. I hope you’ve been visiting these links and reading them because if you are, you’ll find yourself becoming a more interesting man by the week. You won’t even realize it until you find yourself in some small talk conversation with someone you barely know and you’re dropping knowledge on them the likes of which they’ve never heard before. And before you know it, you’ll be leaving these people thinking you’re the real most interesting man in the world.

Before we get to the links, I just wanted to say that Making Men has gained several new subscribers over the last week, and it’s humbling. I hope you’re enjoying what you’ve seen so far, and hope you stick around for what’s to come.

Several of you have reached out to me with nothing but good things to say about this endeavor, and that too is humbling. If any of you ever has any tips for how to improve the newsletter, or requests for topics you’d like to see covered in the future, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.

Keep your eyes on your inbox as Tuesday morning you’ll find the next edition of Making Men, featuring a post on Ways to Get More Out of Life. Until then, enjoy these interesting articles.

- Mick

The Quest for the Real-Life Treasures of Atari's Swordquest

In the 1980s Atari offered golden treasures as gaming prizes, most of which were lost to time. Until now.

Ten Strange Things You Never Knew about the Wild West - Listverse

They called it the Wild West for a reason. The frontier was a crazy place while America was moving west and settling the previously-untamed region. Gun

The Non-Existent Country That Snuck into Two United Nations Meetings This Year

The United States of Kailasa, a non-existent country created by a controversial Indian guru, somehow managed to sneak into two United Nations meetings this year

A Delicious History of the Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Sandwich

The humble, bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich is a surprisingly recent phenomenon.

A Brief History of Teenagers | The Saturday Evening Post

Humans have been turning 13 for tens of thousands of years, but only recently did it occur to anybody that the bridge between childhood and adulthood deserved its own name.

“There’s always one more way to do things, and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.”

- Waylon Jennings

Another great newsletter to check out

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