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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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Lemme see yer grills

Why settle for plain old pearly whites when you can adorn your teeth with a bespoke grill?

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Eels and feels

For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.

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How to manage your Schadenfreude

Do you sometimes enjoy witnessing others’ distress? Tiffany Watt Smith suggests five ways to manage - and even embrace - the perplexing emotion of Schadenfreude.

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  • Carl Voegtlin. Photograph by Perry.
  • The Gates-Bonwill and Howland-Perry crowns.
  • Three fish see from above. Etching by F. Perry.
  • Mantis foliatus. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby after G. Perry, 1810.
  • Song of the perfect cure / words by F.C. Perry ; music by J. Blewett.
  • Song of the perfect cure / words by F.C. Perry ; music by J. Blewitt.
  • Thomas Jones, a boy with icthyosis, a skin disease that resembles fish scales. Coloured lithograph by J. Perry, 1841.
  • Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.
  • The Pain-killer Polka Song, an advert for Perry Davis' Pain Killer by F. Archer, ca. 1899. Wellcome Library no. EPH+57
  • [Undated handbill (printed in Newington by Perry) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
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