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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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The father of handwashing

Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.

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Fleeing fear, defying prejudice

As teenage refugee Sedra Al-Yousef grappled with rebuilding her life and education in another country, at the same time she used compassion and humanity to demolish populist anti-refugee myths.

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Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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  • Vienna (?), Austria: two elderly medical men. Photograph, ca. 1918.
  • The tomb of Maximilian I, archduke of Austria, German king, and Holy Roman Emperor (1493-1519) at the Hofkirche in Innsbruck, Austria. Chalk lithograph with white highlights.
  • Civil engineering: viaducts in Austria. Lithograph by W. West after F. H. Horne.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria: architectural details. Wood engraving by Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly.
  • Portrait of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. Portrait after L. Horowitz.
  • Vienna (?), Austria: a large house with people grouped on the verandah. Photograph, ca. 1918.
  • Vienna (?), Austria: three elderly medical men seated on a park bench. Photograph, ca. 1918.
  • A red pencil standing vertical within a white line-drawn condom representing an advertisement for a benefit concert by the Bluesbreakers in Klagenfurt, Austria, to mark 3 years of AIDS-Hilfe in Austria. Colour lithograph, 1986 [?].
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria: cross section. Wood engraving by T. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria. Wood engraving by I. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly after T. Hansen.
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