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Sex and syphilis

Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.

  • Book extract

Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

  • Article

The current that kills

In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.

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A head apart from the body

We look to the future of science via science fiction to explore how a head may live apart from its body.

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  • Zasukhin, D. Russian toxoplasmologist
  • Camillia Sinensis, Tea (Russian)
  • Russian Troika, from a poscard.
  • Two Russian type water boilers(samowars)
  • Russian POW being lowered into a bath.
  • Technology: a Russian padlock and key. Wood engraving.
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • Machnow : the Russian giant, his wife and manager.
  • Machnow : the Russian giant, his wife and manager.
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