19th Century

Cornershot: 19th-century physician read about his own death in paper

Edit The Roanoke Times 02 Jul 2016

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A Traveler's Guide to Lisbon's Kiosks

Edit Topix 02 Jul 2016

Visitors to Lisbon are usually quick to fall in love with the city's ubiquitous quiosques de refresco, vintage-chic food and drinks kiosks that have become as much a part of the city's drinking and dining scene as ginginha and pasteis de nata. Take a stroll through the city, and you'll soon spot these ornate iron structures, whose unique style reflects Art Nouveau and Moorish influences and history dates back to the 19th century ... ....

How Gluten and Modern Food Processing Contribute to Poor Health

Edit Mercola 02 Jul 2016

“Gluten. A Gut Feeling” investigates the health effects of gluten. In recent years, the benefits of a gluten-free diet have become widely recognized, its popularity fueled by celebrity endorsements and an increasing number of books ... Until the 19th century, wheat was also usually mixed with other grains, beans and nuts; pure wheat flour has been milled into refined white flour only during the last 200 years ... How Gluten Triggers Leaky Gut....

Infant bodies were ‘prized’ by 19th century anatomists, study suggests (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jul 2016

A new study of the University of Cambridge anatomy collection suggests that the bodies of foetuses and babies were a 'prized source of knowledge' by British scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries, and were dissected more commonly than previously thought and quite differently to adult cadavers ... Original documenthttp.//www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/infant-bodies-were-prized-by-19th-century-anatomists-study-suggests....

Boxes of children's skulls reveal how anatomists 'prized' infant cadavers in the 19th century

Edit The Daily Mail 01 Jul 2016

Researchers at Cambridge University looked at how British scientists investigated the changing anatomy of childhood during the 1800s, using 54 skulls of infants and fetuses that had been stashed away ... ....

Can you make a non-racist Tarzan movie?

Edit Fresno Bee 01 Jul 2016

Jackson, playing an African American diplomat who hopes to expose the Congolese slave trade, starts firing a 19th century machine gun at villainous white colonialists in pith helmets. Loosely based on a real-life historian and Civil War veteran named George Washington Williams, Jackson's character is an archetype who never existed in Edgar Rice Burroughs' century old Africa-set Tarzan stories - a black hero ... ....

Independence Day on C-SPAN's American History TV Part II: Women in Late-19th C.

Edit The Examiner 01 Jul 2016

On Saturday, 2 June, C-SPAN3 will present another in its series of programs featuring classes from major university professors ... Women in the Late-19th Century, with Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson, who will be teaching a class on the new roles that women assumed in the workforce and in politics, in the post-war years, during the late-19th century. Prof ... from the founding of the nation through the late 20th century....

Joyless 'Tarzan' is a bungle in the jungle

Edit Houston Chronicle 01 Jul 2016

The idea was to take some of the true history of the Congo, and its exploitation by the Belgians in the 19th century, and throw it together with the story of Tarzan - you know, a boy raised by apes in the jungle. In "The Legend of Tarzan," Rom is wiping out elephants for the ivory and pressing the native people into slavery. Killing people doesn't bother him, but a fork in the wrong place really gets under his skin ... > ... ....

Beyond fireworks: Hog-calling and other unusual options for July 4th

Edit Kansas City Star 01 Jul 2016

Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead will go hog wild (minus the hogs). Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm will fire a reproduction 19th-century cannon. Raymore will host a classic car show for its “Spirit of America” celebration … Click to Continue » ... ....

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss

Edit Topix 01 Jul 2016

Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%35% ... ....

Review: Exemplary history of British remittance men

Edit Canada Dot Com 01 Jul 2016

For a few decades at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, British aristocrats and well-to-do businessmen lumbered with prodigal sons who were unacceptable to their Victorian sensibilities because they were, even more than usual among their class, wasters, gamblers, and sexual eccentrics, would often pack the boys off to the ......

Hot Property: British architect revives

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 01 Jul 2016

Byron — a managing partner of California English development in Southern California — made no assumptions and sought no shortcuts when rehabbing 1217 York St., a 19th century row house in the Inner Mission doubling as Byron’s introduction to the Bay Area ... same staircase that’s been there for parts of three different centuries....

Victorians’ Fears About the Ills of Modern Technology Sounded a Lot Like Ours

Edit Slate 01 Jul 2016

Late-night overdrinking? Writer’s cramp? Spoiled kids? Such complaints haunted 19th-century Britons ... “Nineteenth-century concerns for spoiled ... Well-to-do late-19th-century women brought flower arrangements into the drab, ugly houses of poor people who were stricken with illnesses, believing that the beauty of the flowers could cure any number of ills....

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The Secret History of the British Garden, 3 The 19th Century

Tales of Slavery from 19th Century, Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation Part 1, Audio

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Tales of Slavery from 19th Century, Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation Part 1, Audio

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