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The Economist20h
The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft
S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine18d
Take a Look at the ‘Extraordinary’ 19th-Century Portraits Made With Some of the Earliest Methods of Photography
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...
The New York Times1mon
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN 1800; Queer Contrast Between These Late Century ...
LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IN 1800; Queer Contrast Between These Late Century Journals. OLD TIMERS NOT HUSTLERS Advertisements Characteristic of the Period -- Some Famous Editors -- William Cobbett and the ...
Foreign Affairs6mon
The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia: A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914
Review The Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia: A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914 Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert January 1945 Published on January 1, 1945 ...
National Geographic news5mon
The forgotten history of New York’s first electric taxi fleet—in ...
New York City had a horse problem in the last 19th-century. Its streets and alleyways were jammed with an estimated 150,000 of the animals—each one producing more than 35 pounds of waste every day.