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This Vintage Newspaper Article From 1900 Counting Down The Top 20 "Women's Own Weapons" Is Genuinely "Hysterical"
"If women are not discriminating fighters at all times, they are at least versatile in their choice of weapons." ...
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The Many Myths of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the 19th-Century Royal Whose Beauty and Tragic Death Transformed Her Into a Legend
The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...
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19th Century & Women in history & Sexuality and Gender
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Vladimir Putin served his apprenticeship in the KGB toward the end of the Cold War, a period during which ...
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A 19th-Century London Arts and Crafts House With a Bold and Modern Extension Lists for £7.5 Million
An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...
El País in English20d
The event that heralded a globalized world in the 19th century (and is still going strong)
Despite the disappearance of their original, practical purpose — which was on display in London in the 19th century, at the Great Exhibition of the Products of the Industry of All Nations — these ...
Times of Malta22d
How women dressmakers influenced society in 19th-century Malta
The presentation, titled ‘Women and Style in the 19th to early 20th century Malta’, will be delivered by fashion historian Caroline Tonna.
The Boston Globe22d
What’s up with Trump’s fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents?
He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K. Polk and William McKinley. Both championed what many consider outdated policies that Trump is now trying to ...
Radio France Internationale23d
Major trade wars since the 19th century
In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...
City Journal24d
Tariffs Didn’t Drive America’s Nineteenth-Century Growth. They Won’t Today, Either
In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise. Tariff-supporters like Oren Cass have argued that the United States “transformed from colonial backwater to continent ...
The Globe and Mail24d
It took more than 7,000 garments to reimagine 19th century Italian society in Netflix’s The Leopard
Set against Italy’s impending unification in the 1860s, the series reimagines Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic novel with a focus on the women ... and affluent 19th-century families.
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Nineteenth Century Wisdom in the 21st Century: Bastiat on Tariffs and USAID
This semester—through the generosity of the Dean and Cam Williams Foundation to the Ludwig von Mises Institute for its book club program—the University of Mount Olive has been hosting a Book Club ...
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Inside The History Of The Daguerreotype, The Pioneering Photographic Process That Captured 19th-Century Life
Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...