How men found love in 1800s America was so awful it’s funny
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Tenement Museum virtual tour
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Little-known Black history comes to light in new documentary series
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The hidden, magnificent history of chop suey - Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish’s true origins
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More than just a 'mystery' train, the Orient Express whisked the elite across Europe in luxury and style
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Émile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for 'Around the Moon' by Jules Verne (1870)
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America's forgotten vampire panic
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We look at a fascinating object loaned to the Royal Society - a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
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Bricks and the Industrial Revolution
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A story about living in nature and the value of culture captures the spirit of Finland – Lizzie Enfield explores the remarkable legacy of 'Seitsemän veljestä'
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1800s astronomical drawings vs. NASA images
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The Malê Rebellion in Bahia: Brazil’s African Muslim uprising
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Peace...? (1814)
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record
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Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898) A silent film review
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Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
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The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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What is vintage base ball?
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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Giuseppe Verdi: Otello / Act 4 - Ave Maria, piena di grazia
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What if the war of 1812 had a victor?
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English translation of Finland's epic poem, The Kalevala (1898)
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What each nation wanted from the scramble for Africa vs what they got from it
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A new version of the first known on-screen kiss between two African-American actors has been discovered in the collections of the National Library of Norway
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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Reviving Ozark cuisine through seeds
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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The distribution of vaccines in the 19th century
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The Paris morgue provided ghoulish entertainment
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How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history
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May we all be so brave as 19th century female husbands
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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The tempest prognosticator
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Rare 200-year-old clay pipe depicting thylacine dubbed the 'holy grail' of Tasmanian archaeology
Key points: A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger It is believed to be at least 190 years old and...
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A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger
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It is believed to be at least 190 years old and handcrafted out of river clay by a local
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Adding to the mystery of the pipe is the depiction of a kookaburra, which were were not introduced to Tasmania until 1902
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-08/rare-clay-pipe-depicts-tasmanian-tiger/12215284
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
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The history of mainstream handwashing only began near the end of the 19th century
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The coronavirus called America’s bluff: Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself
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Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' creates hygge away from home – the tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows
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Arrival of a train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896)
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For the movie The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers built a 19th-century ‘lighthouse’
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
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America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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How to live like Jane Austen
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California city returns island taken from native tribe in 1860 massacre
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
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