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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The Christmas Eve plot to blow up Napoleon
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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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Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress
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How the Daguerreotype started a Victorian black market for pornography in London
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Disappointed love and dangerous temptations: Textile factories and true crime
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Despite being a best-selling author, Jane Austen was paid very little
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Rebuilding Jane Austen’s library
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Finland's Munch – The unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck
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When white supremacists overthrew a government - The Wilmington insurrection of 1898
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The world’s oldest vegetarian restaurant
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war
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Remarkable 120-year-old letter to Santa discovered in England
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How a 19th-century teenager sparked a battle over who owns our faces
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Eureka Stockade rebellion
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The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
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How a teenage girl became the mother of horror: Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel
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World's first sci-fi convention (Royal Albert Hall, 1891)
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The White Headhunter: The story of a 19th-century sailor who survived a South Seas heart of darkness
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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The city born in a day: The origin story of Oklahoma City
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Michael Faraday - The Chemical History of a Candle [1848] (Probably the best scientific talk ever)
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The exotic dead animals that appeared in the menageries of Victorian Britain’s grand exhibitions were far from perfect specimens. Stuffed, stitched, painted hybrids – accuracy was not a priority.
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