The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
Free Black Staten Island settlers greatly contributed to 19th Century N.Y. economy through oyster industry
The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...
How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...
Dayanand Saraswati's Satyarth Prakash: A Vision For Modern India
Satyarth Prakash (Light of Truth) is a monumental work by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and a pivotal text in the history of modern India. More than just a religious treatise, it's a revolutionary ...
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Winslow Homer watercolors from Sewanee family authenticated on ‘Antiques Roadshow’
A Sewanee woman and her daughter found themselves sitting on their hands at a Christie's auction in New York City in January, trying not to accidentally bid while they were gawking at the going rate ...
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Creating Carmen: Opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre ...
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How supercomputers paved the way for laptops and chatbots
In 1936 Howard Aiken, a graduate student at Harvard University, decided to create a programmable computer inspired by the 19th-century work of English ... a team of men and women in 1944 and ...
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Book Review: ‘Bright Circle,’ by Randall Fuller
“Bright Circle" brings together five women associated with Transcendentalism — a school of thought that arose in mid-19th-century Massachusetts ... with the men’s work than the women ...
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Dried plants 19th-century Australian colonial institution indicate secret, illicit snacking among residents
Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many ... the monotony of life in the institution. The work appears in the journal Antiquity.
Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Silsden Town Hall
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
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Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Gregson Arts Centre, Lancaster
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
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Spanish women inventors who have made history
The lollipop, the disposable syringe and the table football are well-known Spanish inventions, but they are not the only ones ...