Stories
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Thunderbolts and lightning
Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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- Archives and manuscripts
Laws, Robert (1851-1934)
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934, medical missionaryDate: c.1880Reference: MS.3187- Pictures
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Robert Laws. Photograph by J. Moffat.
Moffat, John, 1819-1894.Reference: 13047i- Pictures
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Robert Laws. Photograph, 1874, by David Scott.
Reference: 13046i- Books
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Persian letters. Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Author Of The Spirit Of Laws.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Persian letters. Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Author of the Spirit of Laws.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]