Stories
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The key. As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The labyrinth: Being an exercise for wit and humour, by rational rebusses. All which are entirely new, propriety being observed in the sense, spelling, and sound. By Jonathan Puzzle, Esq;
Puzzle, Jonathan.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A curious letter from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A curious letter, from Oliver Puzzle-cause.
Puzzle-cause, Oliver.Date: 1775?]- Books
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The Whet-stone: Or The spawn of the puzzle. Being a fresh collection of conundrums, never before published.
Date: In the year MDCCXLV. [1745]