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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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The Day of Judgment: the world explodes. Drawing by P. Davidson, 1967.
Davidson, Paul, active approximately 1967.Date: Aug. 67 [August 1967]Reference: 2922534iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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An almanack designed for the use of the people of England, or The Son of Man reckoning with man upon an high Account Day, viz. The Last Day, Letter Day, Lord's Day, Day of Judgment, and Day of Doom. The Itroduction.
Date: 1770?]- Books
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Fifteen sermons preach'd upon several occasions, most of them before the university, ON The following Subjects: The Happiness of a Religious Life. On Righteous Judgment. The King's Inauguration. On Christmas-Day. On Christmas-Day. The Murder of the Innocents. St. Paul's Conversion. The Christian Passover. On Easter-Day. On Christ's Ascension. On Whit-Sunday. The Folly of Slander. The Knowlege of God, through Christ, Eternal Life. The Immortality of the Soul. The Institution of the Sabbath. By John Wilder, M. A. (late Fellow of Pembroke College) Rector of St. Aldate's, Oxon.
Wilder, John, 1680 or 1681-1742.Date: [1720?]- Books
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Ephemeris: or, a diary astronomical, astrological, meteorological, for the year of our Lord, 1716. It being Containing, and Setting, Day-Break, Twilight, Planetary-Hour by Day and Night, &c. With a general Astrological Judgment on the Ingresses thereof. By Job Gadbury, Student in Physick and Astrology.
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Doom's day: or, the Last Judgment. A poem. Written by the Right Honourable William, Earl of Sterline.
Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 1568-1640.Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]