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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Honesty. Religious Temper. Lying. Of Fortitude. Flattery. Theft. Peace. The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1709- Books
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Essays upon several moral subjects. Part IV. Of Goodness. Of Honesty. Of Religious Temper. Of Lying. Of Fortitude. Of Flattery. Of Theft. Of Peace. Of The Resurrection. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1725- Books
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Some farther remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled, Observations on the conduct of Great-Britain; Particularly with Relation to the Spanish Depredations and Letters of Reprisal. In a letter to the Craftsman. To which is added, a postscript, in vindication of the West-India merchants, against a late Charge of Theft and Pyracy. By Caleb D'Anvers of Gray's-Inn, Esq;
Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697-1742.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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The life of Patrick Madan; Exhibiting a Series of the most extraordinary Transactions, notorious Villanies, and wonderful Escapes, that ever happened to one Man. Comprizing a Series of Events equally calculated to astonish the Mind, and lead the Heart to Virtue, by exhibiting the Deformity of Vice. With Reflections naturally arising from the Subject; and Hints, which if attended to, will tend greatly to the Suppression of every Species of Theft.
Date: [1781?]- Books
Preventing library book theft / H.C. Keele.
Keele, H. C. (Herbert Charles)Date: [1987], ©1987