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How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who Followed
Paula Findlen was strolling under the Renaissance arcades of Via Zamboni in Bologna, Italy. A graduate student in history of ...
At Wellesley, getting it down on paper: Three new shows at the Davis Museum highlight the college’s holdings
The largest, "Better on Paper," indicates what its contents — books, prints, drawings, photographs — have in common.
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Secret rulers or conspiracy theorists: what do we know about the ‘deep state’?
Secret threads Even a decade and a half ago, the mention of the ‘deep state’ in the expert community caused sceptical smiles and ...
He Fell in Love With a Venetian Palazzo. But Why Did It Seem So Familiar?
On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English art dealer found himself captivated by a 17th-century apartment.
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This Medieval Document Has Been Identified As A Forgery From The 18th Century
A medieval document held in the collection of Göttingen University's Faculty of Humanities has been identified as a forgery from the 18th century. The document was supposedly from 1266, but it ...
A timeline of the legal wrangling and deportation flights after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act
President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th-century wartime law to deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them Venezuelans ...
Judge questions Trump administration on whether it ignored order to turn around deportation flights
A federal judge on Monday was incredulous at the contention by the Trump administration that his directive to turn around ...
‘Too Late’: Trump Deports Hundreds in Bizarre Video After Judge Orders Pause
President Donald Trump‘s administration transferred more than 200 migrants to the custody of El Salvador early Sunday in a ...
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The Russian Delusion About Ukraine
Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.
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II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Northern Arakan, consisting of contemporary Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, has since the late eighteenth century been a region of intermittent unrest and refugee flows. Thousands of Rohingya ...
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Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked just hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan ...
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Smuggling in the 18th century
The main items smuggled in the 18th century were tea ... The government reduced the taxes on tea and other goods in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As a result, smuggling declined as ...