Beauty through the ages
Teeth whitening and anti-wrinkle treatments were as sought after in Renaissance times as they are today, a historian claims.
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Mar 21, 2011
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News tagged with historians
NASA's Apollo 13 checklist sells for $390,000
A checklist used to guide the wounded Apollo 13 spacecraft home after the explosion that led to the famed "Houston, we've had a problem" call sold at auction in Texas Wednesday for just under $390,000.
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011
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From buskins to brothel-creepers: our love affair with shoes
Tomorrow Cambridge historian Dr Ulinka Rublack will give a public talk that will set footwear at the centre of her argument that in neglecting to explore the history of things we miss a golden opportunity to further our understanding ...
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Feb 14, 2012
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Who was afraid of Prince Rupert's dog?: The enduring power of seventeenth-century propaganda
Research by an historian at the University of Southampton has revealed how modern scholars have been led astray by a 350-year-old propaganda campaign.
Other
Apr 27, 2011
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Greed was different in the Middle Ages, researcher says
(Phys.org) -- Surveys of the carnage of the American financial crisis that began in 2008 have revealed the potent allure of personal gain above all else.
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Aug 6, 2012
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Article Traces History of Darwinian Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite being a founding principle of modern biology for 150 years, evolutionary theory has played a limited role in the field of medicine. Only in the last 20 years has Darwinian medicine emerged as a discipline ...
Evolution
Dec 10, 2009
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Celestial sleuths shed (moon) light on death of Stonewall Jackson
One of the turning points of the U.S. Civil War occurred during the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, when Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own troops and later ...
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2013
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Napoleon died of kidney illness, says new book by Danish doctor
A retired Danish doctor claimed Tuesday to have uncovered the true cause of Napoleon's death, saying the French emperor died of a lengthy kidney illness instead of the being poisoned by his enemies.
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May 5, 2009
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Is 'Tudor England' a myth?
(Phys.org) -- The term ‘Tudor’ was hardly used in the 16th Century and its obsessive modern use by historians and writers generally gives us a misleading impression of the period, an Oxford historian ...
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May 29, 2012
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Revealing hidden artwork with airport security full-body-scanner technology
In the latest achievement in efforts to see what may lie underneath the surface of great works of art, scientists today described the first use of an imaging technology like that used in airport whole-body security scanners ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 10, 2013
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