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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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?
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Serapion, Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, in Italian, imperfect at the end
Ibn Wafid (d. 1067) of ToledoDate: Mid 15th centuryReference: MS.746