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• The Industrial Revolution: Advantages and Consequences

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in human history.  New inventions and ideas changed the way people acted, worked, and thought.  The Industrial Revolution completely revamped global economies and cultures, and it ended up affecting society in both positive and negative ways. General Effects of the ...
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• “Central Park Winter”

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 541
  Charles Parsons painted these ice skaters in 1862, during the park’s infancy. Ice skating was quite a fad among middle- and upper-class New Yorkers at the time. Even the little dog on the right is getting into it. Later this painting was made into a lithograph by Currier & Ives.
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• Turkey Day with the inmates at the Tombs

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 541
  On December 1, 1903, The New York Times ran a long article covering how city orphanages, missions, hospitals, “Magdalen” asylums, and other charitable institutions celebrated the holiday. That almost always meant a big turkey dinner and religious speakers. The Times also reported how Thanksgiving was ...
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• True Crime: The Cooper’s Wife is Missing, by Joan Hoff and Marion Yeates

  
  You're History ! — Authority: 124
  They found her , Poor Bridget Cleary, killed for her belief in fairies. These fairies, embedded deep in Irish folklore, are not the of the Tinkerbell ilk at all. Rather, they are capable of bringing all sorts of mischief into the lives of ordinary mortals. Bridget’s husband believed that she became a changeling, ...
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• Recreation for Geniuses

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 639
  Really, it’s no surprise that the 1800s produced people like Rimbaud, Tesla, Freud and Darwin. When those guys were kids, they weren’t messing around with portable gaming consoles or mini-robots or NERF guns designed to look like semi-automatics. Nope. They were doing stuff with balls, hoops and sticks that we ...
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• Otto von Bismarck got marriage proposals in mails from doting fans

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 24 (ANI): Otto von Bismarck, the ‘Iron Chancellor’ who forged modern Germany, received thousands of fan mails including marriage proposals from women besotted with the dashing leader.The Bismarck Foundation in Friedrichsruh has for the first time released over 6,000 personal letters for scholars, ...
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• Inuvialuit examine Smithsonian artifacts

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  A group of about 10 Inuvialuit people has returned from Washington, D.C., after examining 19th-century Northwest Territories artifacts at the Smithsonian Institute.
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• The Tell-Tale Heart

  
  Telltale — Authority: 93
  by Edgar Allan Poe 18 minutes, 39 seconds Unabridged Horror Fiction 1843 "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me." The Master of the Macabres most famous horror story, and a consistent favorite among Telltale listeners. Read by Alex Wilson. Originally for sale on October ...
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• 18th & 19th Century Women Writers Reading Challenge - Complete!

  
  Wandeca Reads — Authority: 131
  I can honestly say that I enjoyed this challenge immensely. I discovered a few authors that I never heard of before and devoured their books with gusto. Heres what I read: 18th Century : Fanny Burney : Camilla Evelina Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho 19th Century : Emily Bronte : ...
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• Book Review: Possession by A. S. Byatt

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 123
  Chunkster Challenge #2 Classics Challenge #4 In a dusty book once owned by the great nineteenth-century poet Randolph Henry Ash, scholar Roland Michell finds two draft beginnings of a letter. These drafts are surprising, not only because they’ve escaped the attentions of rapacious Ash collector Mortimer ...
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• The Comforts of Bath, 1798: Thomas Rowlandson

  
  Jane Austen's World — Authority: 490
  In 1798, the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew The Comforts of Bath , a series of satiric drawings. The cartoons were used to illustrate the 1858 edition of the New Bath Guide , written by Christopher Anstey and first published in 1766.* Rowlandson depicted both the social and medical scene in Bath just ...
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• 1895: Florence English and Amanda Cody

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  On this date in 1895, Amanda (Mandy) Cody became the first woman hanged in Georgia’s Warren County when she died with her (male) lover Florence English for murdering Cody’s husband, Cicero and dumping his body in a swamp. According to The Penalty is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women’s Executions ...
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• Dying

  
  Pechorin's Journal — Authority: 108
  I’ve read two Arthur Schnitzler’s now, first his 1924 novella Fraülein Else and now his earlier 1895 novella Dying. Having read both, I’ve become something of a fan. I wrote up Fraülein Else here , it is an extraordinary novella that pulls off the difficult trick of being written entirely in the form of a ...
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• Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

  
  Arukiyomi — Authority: 119
  Context: This was my toilet book at Field View. It’s amazing how much you get through on the loo and while brushing your teeth. REVIEW Take a ball, a lovers’ tryst, an elopement, a love-triangle, unrequited love, a touch of class distinction, a country estate, a parson and a tentative feminist and shake well. ...
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• 1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 470
  On this date in 1803, the famous German bandit “Schinderhannes” and 19 others of his gang were efficiently guillotined in French-occupied Rhineland. Schinderhannes with mistress Juliana Blasius and their child. As low-born as they come, Johannes Bückler ( English Wikipedia link | German ) hailed from a ...
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• W. Graham Robertson

  
  "minutiae" by Nathan Abels — Authority: 133
  John Singer Sargent, W. Graham Robertson , 1894, Oil on canvas, 90-3/4 x 46-3/4 in. source .
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• 19th Century Pianos

  
  Author Jennifer Hudson Taylor — Authority: 119
  People in the 19th century didnt have radios, CD players, ipods, or live stream music from the Internet. If they wanted any kind of music, they had to produce it themselves. Therefore, among those that could afford it, one could walk into most any home and find a piano of some sort--much like today youll find it rare ...
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• Researchers find superior way to harness waste heat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 20 (IANS) More than half the energy consumed worldwide is wasted, most of it in the form of excess heat.A new technology, developed by MIT researchers, would help convert this heat — given off by devices ranging from computer chips to car engines — into electricity with an efficiency many times greater ...
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• Sarah Palin And The Conservative Descent

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The 19th century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was enough to discredit the theory of evolution. The same could be said of the pantheon of conservative political heroes, which in the last half-century has gone from Barry Goldwater and ...
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• Jerusalem stone and the genocide of Titus

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Israels high rise buildings in Jerusalem are built out of Jerusalem stone, a beautiful natural building material that makes even the new city look gloriously resurrected from the very hills themselves. Obama is a Third World socialist, meaning that he sees everything through the lens of revenge against Western ...
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