Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t
Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist ...
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Robert Lacey Revisits Classic Nursery Rhymes
The enduring power of nursery rhymes is that they bring children into contact with the realities of human emotion. And the ...
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Review: WAR HORSE IN CONCERT at Century II Concert Hall
As I sat in the audience, waiting for the performance of War Horse In Concert, a Pops presentation for the Wichita Symphony, ...
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This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion
Across 27 pages, author J.H. Brown laid out how readers could summon spooky images by staring at one of the book’s 16 illustrations of “specters ... witchcraft—is once more prevalent in this 19th ...
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Democratic donkey and Republican elephant | Why are these the party mascots?
How exactly did this come to be? It turns out these animals have been patriotic since the 19th century. The Democratic donkey's origin is linked to the 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson.
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Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art
During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats ... courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political ...
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Mobilising Richard Spruce’s 19th century Amazon legacy
Richard Spruce was one of the hardy breed of botanists who explored the Amazon rainforest in the 19th century. During his 14 years of ... data handling and botanical illustration, with presentations ...