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Thunderbolts and lightning

Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.

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Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania

How the symptom of a terrifying sickness became a lively folk dance in southern Italy.

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Titans in the landscape

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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me

Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.

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  • Lightning striking a rural building during a storm: onlookers react in terror. Engraving, 16--.
  • Lightning over the ruins at Memnonium at Thebes, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Lightning pierces through the clouds, heralding the coming of Christ. Engraving by J. Barlow, 1813, after W.M. Craig.
  • Saint John and Saint Paul as protectors against storm, thunder and lightning. Engraving.
  • Saint John and Saint Paul as protectors against storm, thunder and lightning. Coloured engraving.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including gout, lightning, war, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1836?].
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a comet, lightning, and French soldiers. Coloured lithograph, [c.1847?].
  • Lightning and stars fall on the earth on the day of Judgement; the sun and the moon hang simultaneously in the sky. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Two deer struck by lightning in the forest. Etching by M. E. Ridinger after J. E. Ridinger.
  • Experiments concerning the different efficacy of pointed and blunted rods, in securing buildings against the stroke of lightning / [William Henley].
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