What stands out most about the book I'm carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime ...

Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an ...

Publication date 1990 Topics Secularism -- Europe, Secularization (Theology) -- History of doctrines -- 19th century, Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Publisher Cambridge [England] ; New ...

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Ports of call in the nineteenth century were those where a vessel ‘called’ rather than entered, and the call was non-freight-earning. Thus ships ‘called for orders’ to confirm the final port of ...

A map of London shows the sites of recorded 14th-century homicides. Blue shows killings involving males; red indicates a female victim or perpetrator. Symbols denote the weapons used.

Applying this procedure to investigate the formation of postal space in Brazil at the beginning of the 19th century offers, in a way, a cartographic expression of what João Paulo Pimenta defined as a ...

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in ...

Where Galveston Island State Park is today, Colorado investors of the 1890s once wanted to build the town of South Galveston, until nobody wanted to live there.

19th Century Condom, With Erotic Image, On Display At Dutch Museum Measuring under eightinches, the condom is in "mint condition". UV testing revealed it hasn't been used, says Joyce Zelen ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.