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Americans Are Tired of Choice
Among President Donald Trump’s lizard-brain intuitions is that Americans are overwhelmed by choice. This exhaustion is a strangely underexplored reason for his appeal; it may even help explain why his ...
A Guide to the Real Historical Figures in The Gilded Age
HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...
The Vatican Knows an ‘Industrial Revolution’ When It Sees One
Rerum Novarum also had a profound influence on the Catholic Church itself. The document inaugurated what’s now known as ...
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Victorian illustration depicting effects of laughing gas makes science look like a wild party
In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a ...
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The Life And Career Of J. C. Leyendecker, The Most Prominent Commercial Artist Of The Early 20th Century
In the early 20th century, J. C. Leyendecker rose to prominence as an illustrator whose work was seen everywhere from soap advertisements to the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post." His drawings ...
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The 'first celebrity chef': How 19th-Century cook Antonin Carême made extraordinary food fit for kings - BBC
An illustration from Carême's book Le Maitre d'hotel Francais depicts typical chef costumes of the early 19th Century (Credit: Alamy) The young Carême's turnaround in life was remarkable.
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Scherenschnitte enlivens book on 19th century medical remedies [The Scribbler] - LancasterOnline
In the 1930s, when Joanna (Jan) Raub Ripple was growing up in Raub households in Quarryville and then New Providence, she was attracted to her family’s medical books, particularly those ...
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Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot
An illustration from “L’Homme,” a treatise on human anatomy by René Descartes. ... There are 19th-century roots, too, to these A.I. ghost stories, ...
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'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings - BBC
Cole's majestic vision is only one of the approximately 200 items – including paintings, scientific illustrations, rare books, photographs, manuscripts, drawings and textiles – that document ...
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'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
Who knew what, and when, from the start of the 19th Century on, about the impact ... 200 items – including paintings, scientific illustrations, rare books, photographs, manuscripts, drawings ...
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A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct
A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct. European medicinal leeches were famous for their popular purpose: treatment for everything from cancer to mental illness.
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The Original Birders Gave Photography a Run for Its Money
Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s “T ...