If it is desired to cool water for drinking in warm weather, and ice cannot be obtained for this purpose, let it be kept in an unglazed earthenware pitcher wrapt around with two or three folds of ...

How did 'everything is everywhere' arise out of nineteenth century microbiology, and from Beijerinck's experimental and theoretical work in particular? What is the relationship of this principle ...

Last spring, crews broke ground on a new archaeology center in Colonial Williamsburg that will house the living history museum’s collection of artifacts, as well as laboratories, classrooms and ...

Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work, who had adopted the quantitative methods of Lavoisier, and who soon made important ...

These are probably 19th century padlocks ... Now, as you said, this is an unglazed plate. Yes. And when it was fired the final time, it would have been covered with glaze and fired, and it ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country.

In his rich and expansive new book, Jon Stewart shows that nihilism's beginnings in fact go back much further to the first half of the nineteenth century. He argues that the true origin of modern ...

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The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field.

A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened ... we know that our shipment was produced between 1850-1867. Interestingly, the pottery factory into which the water was bottled also ...

In the 19th century, the number of people in prisons grew dramatically. Prison sentences became a far more common punishment as many forms of corporal punishments died out. Many new prisons were ...

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 ...