News tagged with aristocrat
Vampires and Zombies: No mere pop culture trend
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires and zombies, both of which became a popular phenomenon in Victorian Britain, are all the rage. Temple English Professor Peter Logan believes this is no mere pop culture trend, but ...
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Was St. Patrick a slave-trading Roman official who fled to Ireland?
With St Patrick's Day upon us, a new study asks whether the saint fled his native Britain to escape a career as a Roman tax collector, only to arrive in Ireland and sell slaves.
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Voltaire's English alter-ego unmasked by new letters
14 newly-discovered letters by Francois Voltaire have allowed an Oxford University team to shed light on his brief but important time in England.
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Jeanne Baret, botanist and first female circumnavigator, commemorated in name of new species
In 1766, Frenchwoman Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to work as assistant to renowned botanist Philibert Commerson on the first French circumnavigation of the globe. The expedition consisted of two ships und ...
Jan 03, 2012 |
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A Tocqueville for our time
Almost two centuries after he traveled around the United States studying its people and government, the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville remains one of the most influential of all commentators on American ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2011 |
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New social media? Same old, same old, say Stanford experts (w/ Video)
If you feel overwhelmed by social media, you're hardly the first. An avalanche of new forms of communication similarly challenged Europeans of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Researchers discover ancient depiction of childbirth at Etruscan site in Tuscany
An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy's Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a ...
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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Oldest Caspian Horse remains discovered in Iran
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Caspian Horse, also known as the "King's Horse" or the Mazandaran horse, is the oldest breed of horse still in existence. The newest discovery of remains makes it even older than originally ...
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May 04, 2011 |
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Probing Question: How did Valentine's Day start?
Never mind the 160 million greeting cards that will be purchased for Valentine's Day this year. Forget about the 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolates that will pass from giver to recipient. Long before ...
Feb 14, 2011 |
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A toast to history: 500 years of wine-drinking cups mark social shifts in ancient Greece
How commonly used items – like wine drinking cups – change through time can tell us a lot about those times, according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented Jan. 7 by Kathleen Lynch, ...
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Jan 03, 2011 |
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Identifying Eadgyth
When German archaeologists discovered bones in the tomb of Queen Eadgyth in Magdeburg Cathedral, they looked to Bristol to provide the crucial scientific evidence that the remains were indeed those of the ...
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Nov 26, 2010 |
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