Stories
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Dazzling luxury
As the 20th century dawned, both elite and masses basked in the marvellous and unearthly glow of the new electric illumination.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
Catalogue
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A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [193?-?]Reference: 676494i- Pictures
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Two views showing the new Rachitici institute and the surrounding woodland area of San Michele, Bologna, Italy. Wood engraving after a photograph by A. Belvederi, 1896.
Date: 28 June 1896Reference: 15610i- Books
Fantasmi del corpo, fantasmi della mente : la malattia fra analisi e racconto (1870 - 1900) / Laura Nay.
Nay, Laura.Date: 1999- Books
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Des grandes épidémies et de leur prophylaxie internationale : avec le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachent / par Léon Depautaine.
Depautaine, Dr., active 19th century.Date: 1868- Books
Mal d'Egitto : origini del gusto e passione scientifica nella Toscana dell'800 / a cura di M. Cristina Guidotti.
Date: 2000