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Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1875. During the Victorian era, it was common practice for the elites to buy those and then hold “Mummy Unwrapping Parties”. Mummies were also
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In 1889, the editor of a British magazine asked single women to write and explain why they were not married."Because I have other professions open to me in which the
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And since today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let's highlight a few of them - just a few women among thousands of others who helped shape
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Italo Gismondi, an archeologist, spent over 35 years building an enormous scale model of Ancient Rome. Most of it is based on the Forma Urbis, a huge marble topographical plan
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Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins was one of the most famous American entertainers of the 19th century. Blind from birth and born into slavery, Wiggins became well known for his piano
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Phineas Gage is the most famous person to have survived severe damage to the brain. His accident illustrates the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between personality and brain
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Colorized by me: Coney Island, The Bowery. 1903.The Bowery was a raucous area where police frequently looked the other way as drinking, gambling, music and shows took place well into
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Colorized by me: Grigori Rasputin was born #OnThisDay in 1869, in Pokrovskoye. He was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last
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Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to
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I present to you: the Abernathy kids, two boys from Oklahoma who, without adult supervision, took several cross-country trips in the US. In 1910... /1 ... they rode on horseback
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Thread: A list of "don’ts" for women riding bicycles published in 1895 in the newspaper New York World.- Don’t be a fright.- Don’t faint on the road.- Don’t wear a
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These vintage mugshots taken in the 1900s were discovered by photographer Anne Svenson, resulting in the book "Prisoners" - a collection of 70 images with accompanying narrative text on each
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