The story of when washing hands was considered crazy
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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
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Man of the people: The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s collection of obscene Russian folktales
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Switchel - The farmer's Gatorade of the 19th century
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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Alice in Wonderland’s hidden messages
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Danish painters in the 19th century may have turned to an unusual source for some of their supplies: breweries
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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Why did men stop wearing hats?
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'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
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What early American writers knew about our scariest stories
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Full log cabin build - Townsends Wilderness Homestead
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Nineteenth-century critiques of technology show how longstanding many current concerns are
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Recently discovered drawings by Gustave Eiffel of the Statue of Liberty hint at last minute change
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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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