National Geographic news1 年
Look Inside a Frenzy of Hungry Sharks and Breeding Groupers
Laurent Ballesta and his team built a semicircular rig of 32 synchronized cameras to capture this “bullet time” video sequence of sharks descending on a grouper at Fakarava Atoll. This visual ...
Asia Society16 年
Central Asia: A Political History from the 19th Century to Present
This essay will lay out three frameworks for understanding the comparative, historical, and political framework for understanding Central Asia, including the competition over the region by various ...
BBC4 年
19th century advances in medical knowledge
At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...
BBC1 年
Religion and science in the 19th century
Many people saw it as an attack on religion, because the book made it impossible to believe that God created the world in seven days. Darwin put forward the theory that all life, including humans ...
PBS3 年
19th Century Surgical Instruments
Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites for the advancement of surgery began to fall into place. Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia ...
Skyscanner3 年
Cheap Flights from Fakarava to Los Angeles Century City
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The New York Times24 天
Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage
Each unearthed clue leads to renewed fascination with a disaster that captured the 19th-century imagination. “Every new discovery sort of closes a chapter and then opens a new page,” said ...
Skyscanner1 个月
Cheap Flights from Los Angeles Century City to Fakarava
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Dezeen21 天
Mid-century modern design "embraced a more human aesthetic while remaining aggressively ...
Mid-century modern design is hard to pin down. As soon as you think you have grasped it, it re-invents itself. Unlike the late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and design movements ...
Daily Press7 天
Presidential history: 19th century ballot box stuffing
The practice of manipulating presidential, state and local plebiscites has had a far-reaching and infamous history in the 19th century. “With the infrastructure of democracy split into multiple ...
PBS8 天
19th amendment
Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...