Stories
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Losing touch
In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.
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The death of Julius Caesar: Caesar is lying on the ground, assassinated by a group of senatorial conspirators led by Cassius Longinus and Marcus Iunius Brutus on the Ides of March. Engraving by J.C. Armytage after J.L. Gérome.
Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 42744i- Pictures
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The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).
Date: [1881]Reference: 42870i- Archives and manuscripts
Subjects: Violence. Civil Rights and Violence (sociology of violence): Civil Rights in the U.S. - Martin Luther King assassination
Date: Apr 1968-Mar 1969Reference: PP/ROS/E/8/2/20Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Pictures
Charlotte Corday (above); soldiers rushing to defend Marat from Charlotte Corday who assassinates him (below). Engravings by C.F.G. Le Vachez and by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, ca. 1798-1817.
Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.Date: [1798-1817]Reference: 2010632i- Pictures
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An episode in The maid's tragedy: Evadne kills the king in his bed in revenge for his having raped her. Etching by E. Kirkall after F. Boitard.
Boitard, François, approximately 1670-approximately 1715.Reference: 42792i