Stories
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Finding a cure for homesickness
While technology can mitigate some aspects of homesickness, other components of home are harder to replicate. Find out how 21st-century studies are helping homesickness sufferers find silver linings in their new situation.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The duty and obligation, Of Ministers and People, To endeavour to spread the Gospel, universally, Throughout the Kingdom, Being, peculiarly, the Work of the Day: and, That Missions to Heathen Countries, in the present juncture, are Ill-Judged, And Highly Unseasonable, Demonstrated. Respectfully addressed to the Religious World in general, and to the Readers of the Evangelical Magazine in particular. By A Clergyman.
Clergyman.Date: 1796- Books
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The bengal calendar & register, for the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety; containing complete and accurate lists of the Honorable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment, Upon a New and more Exte five Plan than any ever before published in India: comprehending complete views and details of the civil & military establishments, &c. &c. &c. The Whole diligently Compiled and Arranged from proper and authentio Documents To which is added a list of the British European subjects, resident in Calcutta, and the several Districts of the Country; also, the marine department - public banks - insurance companies -Houses Of Agency, and Merchants Of Different Nations, Established in Calcutta-Tables shewing the Pay, Batta, and other Allowances of the Army: &c. &c. &c.
Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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The church-Member's directory; or, a gospel church described: wherein is considered its form, founder, and foundation. As also The Materials with which it is built. - The Work and Service thereof. - The Officers belonging to it, - their Characters, Qualifications, and Duties. - In whom the Right of choosing them, and the Power of admitting Members is vested. - The Method of their Admission, - and the Ground of Church-Authority for Excommunication. To which is added, A brief review of the moral and religious obligations of church-members, and A short address to all who intend entering upon that important character. By Archibald Bell.
Bell, Archibald, -1809.Date: [1776]- Books
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A candid state of affairs relative to East India shipping; with an appendix; containing, propositions to reconcile the several contending interests of those concerned in that Branch; and to promote future Harmony in Leadenhall Street. Addressed to the proprietors. The second edition. By Sir Richard Hotham.
Hotham, Richard, Sir.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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An extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's journal from his embarking for Georgia. To his Return to London.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]