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Public Domain Reviewby Thea Applebaum Licht11 Jun 2026
Before crowds jostled for biennale parties and gondola rides, Venice’s waterways witnessed scenes of an even more violent kind — “La Serenissima” this was not.
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit10 Jun 2026
“This is an age of formulations”, the actress Genevieve Stebbins declared in 1886. Auguste Comte had formulated positivism in science, Henry Thomas Buckle had done the same for history, and Herbert...
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit3 Jun 2026
It is hard to tell, at first glance, what information is being imparted. A tuft of grass emerges from a rounded pile, which is sectioned like a table.
Public Domain Reviewby Thom Sliwowski28 May 2026
In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes?
Public Domain Reviewby Thea Applebaum Licht26 May 2026
Today, the Coronado Flower Show, hosted each spring in the small San Diego Bay resort town for which it is named, is the largest tented flower show in the United States.
Public Domain Reviewby Urte Laukaityte21 May 2026
In the parish of Uig on the Scottish island of Lewis, a woman is caring for her cattle not far from a cemetery.
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit19 May 2026
The scene is almost surreal: boys in collared shirts chasing a giant ball across a field. In one picture, the ball fills a horse-drawn cart; in another, it blots out an entire human being, save...
Public Domain Reviewby Alex Wright13 May 2026
Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them fast.
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit13 May 2026
Toward the end of Willem ten Rhijne’s (1647–1700) De Acupunctura, the Dutch physician narrates what appears to be the first time he saw the acupuncture procedure performed.
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes13 May 2026
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition) One afternoon in 1624, the writer James Howell stumbled upon his colleagues engaged in a duel.
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes30 Apr 2026
Even the greatest monuments from the ancient world are no match for the accomplishments of capitalism, when the bourgeoisie became “the first to show what man’s activity can bring about”, as Marx...
Public Domain Reviewby Thea Applebaum Licht22 Apr 2026
Sixty years before Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed, another confrontation between man and bug: this time, between the common flea and an off-kilter fellow in a three-piece suit.
Public Domain Reviewby Ross MacFarlane16 Apr 2026
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) The New York physician Frank Dudley Beane (1851–94) was not the most prolific writer.
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