New Hampshire Bulletin21d
Glue traps called ’19th-century solution’ as lawmakers push for NH to become first state to ban them
Rep. Linda Haskins, an Exeter Democrat, told fellow lawmakers on the House Environment and Agriculture Committee in a hearing this month that the traps represent “a 19th-century solution when ...
literaryreview23d
20th Century & Cold War & USA & Russia & the Soviet Union & Second World War
Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No ...
literaryreview23d
20th Century & Adolf Hitler & 10th Century & Russia & the Soviet Union & Germany
Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs23d
Forensic analysis exonerates doctor in a 19th century Porto poisoning case
A recent forensic reanalysis has upended a 130-year-old poisoning case, exonerating Dr. Urbino de Freitas, a 19th-century physician from Porto who was convicted of poisoning his relatives to ...
Foreign Affairs24d
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the Nineteenth Century
In this fascinating, fastidiously detailed work, a historian looks back to the first time that the United Kingdom and Russia competed on the world stage. In the nineteenth century, the British ...
Foreign Affairs24d
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Drawing on archival materials and hundreds of interviews, including with former spies, Walker crafts a fascinating account of Soviet and Russian agents planted in various countries under false names ...
The Irish Times25d
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century by Richard Reid – An erudite and informed work
There is little insight into other possibilities of political creativity in African societies during the long 19th century – what happened to ideas of justice, value or wellbeing in this period ...
Billboard25d
U2 Shares Message of Support for Ukraine 3 Years After Russian Invasion: Listen to the Poem
By Hannah Dailey The members of U2 are making sure the people of Ukraine know that they still have their backs three years after Russia’s invasion. On Monday (Feb. 24) — the same date Russia ...
The Daily Telegraph27d
A Thousand Blows, review: Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight’s brutal new drama may be his best yet
A Thousand Blows, his new series for Disney+ “inspired by true life stories”, may be his best yet.It brings to life a late 19th-century East London that positively crackles with nefarious ...
IanVisits28d
Early photographs of 19th-century England to be digitised for public access
Janette Rosing (1942 to 2021) was a renowned photographic consultant, connoisseur, and collector who dedicated her life to studying and amassing a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs ...
Christianity Today29d
In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war. In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics ...
eadaily29d
EU countries have approved the 16th package of sanctions against Russia
Permanent Representatives of 27 EU member states have approved the 16th package of sanctions against Russia due to the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine, TASS reports, citing a source in the delegation of ...