Nineteenth Century Europe
From the Archives: Déjà Vu All Over Again – Climate Change
The consensus in the places that I hang out, in real life and on line, is that it is unseasonably cold and we are sick of it. It reminded of this blog post, which I wrote in February, 2014, when we were also sick of winter in these part. Earlier this week I stood in…
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Madame Lenormand’s Fortune Telling Cards
Back in February I spoke at the Civil War Museum at Kenosha, Wisconsin, as part of their annual Civil War medicine weekend. I was a featured speaker, but the heart of the weekend was the 17th Corps Field Hospital–a Civil War reenactment unit from the Midwest that “heals the sick and treats the wounded ‘Under…
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From the Archives: Lovelace, Babbage and Steampunk Comics (with a little grumble about Lord Byron)
Today is the 230th birthday of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and bits of his history are popping up here and there all over the internet. There are lots of good (or bad) stories to tell. He was a poet when poets were rock stars of the sex, drugs and iambic pentameter variety. And he was…
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