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This Is the 19th Century Living Room Trend You've Probably Never Heard Of
While a "fainting couch" might sound like a relic from the past, this piece of furniture is having a moment again - though ...
The Economist5h
The novel was a dominant art form last century
THE NOVEL is dead; the novel is dying; prestige television has killed it. These familiar complaints are oddly comforting, ...
History Extra17d
Victorian medicine: why the 19th century was a time of seismic medical change
The 19th century was a period of rapid technological change, and huge shifts in scientific understanding. As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death sentence, ...
New York Post21d
NYC fire tears into historic 19th-century building in Soho: FDNY
Thick plumes of smoke were spotted bursting out of the roof of a historic 19th-century Soho building early Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm blaze at 451 Broome St ...
Smithsonian Magazine22d
From Jealous Spouses to Paranoid Bosses, Pedometers Quantified Suspicion in the 19th Century
The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...
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Dutch Minister of Health: Covid-19 is a NATO military operation
Dutch Health Minister Fleur Agema called the coronavirus pandemic a NATO military operation, noting that it was led directly by the North Atlantic Alliance and the Netherlands National Coordinator for ...
The New York Times23d
Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show
An analysis of newly released 19th-century census records offers more insight into the conflict’s costs. By Emily Baumgaertner Faded ink. Inconsistencies. Fires. The deadliest conflict in ...
The Daily Telegraph27d
Eton fives boom – 19th-century game surges in popularity
The handball sport, invented at Eton College in the 19th century, has launched in a state school for the first time in more than a century as the sport rides a resurgence in popularity.
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The 100 Best Hit Songs Of The Century So Far
Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years ...
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Ancient Greece’s cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought – new research
The vessel’s concentric circles are characteristic of the protogeometric style that Coldstream and Desborough’s believed to have emerged in Athens during the last half of the 11th century BC.