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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
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Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
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Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1 April 1814]Reference: 38455i- Books
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A table of interest, at 3 1/2d. per cent. per diem, shewing, at one view, the interest on any sum, from £100 to £5,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in regular progression. By Henry Moule, of the Stock Exchange.
Moule, Henry.Date: 1799- Books
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Every man his own broker; or, a guide to the Stock-Exchange. In which the several classes of the public funds, commonly called the Stocks, are distinctly explained; and the Mode of Transterring, or of Buying and Selling them. is rendered intelligible for Persons desirous to transact their own Business. The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing is laid Open-The present State of the National Dest, both Principal and Interest is accurately drawn up-and a great variety of new and useful Directions are given, with Tables. respecting India Stock-Banking-Adventuring in State-Lotteries-Preventing Losses by the destruction of Bank Notes, &c. by Fire-Legal Advice and Caution to the finders of Notes, Bills, or other Paper-Securities for Many-Rules for forming a true judgement when the Stocks will rise or fall in their Prices-Caution against false Intelligence-A new Table of Equation, &c. With, an appendix, containing exact Lists of the Holidays-Payment of Dividends-Expences of transacting Business in the Funds-Miscellaneous Information; and Directions to Strangers to find their way readily to the different Offices at the Bank, South-Sea, and India Houses. Quid faciunt leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat. The twelfth edition, considerably improved. By Thomas Mortimer, Author of many approved Commercial and Historical Works.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: 1798- Books
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The dealers in stock's assistant: or, a calculation of the value of any parcel of stocks from 10000 l. to 1 l. at the Rate of 1/16 of a Pound per Cent to 200 l: per Cent. For the Ease of the Proprietors for several Transferrable Stocks, as South Sea, both Capital and Annuity, East India, Bank of England, Million Bank, York Buildings, Royal Exchange and London Assurance, &c. by which also may be found Interest at any Rate, Insurance, Commission and Brokerage. By G. Clerk, of the South Sea House. N. B. That the Buyer may find his Account in a Book of this Consequence, the Author has taken special Care to correct all the Errors of the Press; and to prevent Imposition, has affix'd at the Bottom of the Preface his Name, in his own Hand Writing.
Clerke, George.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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Exchange-Alley: or, the stock-jobber turn'd gentleman; with the humours of our modern projectors. A tragi-comical farce. Humbly Inscrib'd To the Gentlemen daily attending at Jonathan's Coffee-House.
Date: 1720