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Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
A second copy of a book bound in the skin of a notorious 19th-century murderer is now on display at a museum in Suffolk, ...
The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation was taking place during the industrialization of France. Zinn, et al (2025) International Journal of Paleopathology The Industrial ...
Hey there! In this tutorial, I’m going to help you understand how Tkinter event binding works. It’s a cool feature in Tkinter that allows you to connect functions to specific events. Basically, when ...
The world’s first intercity railway opened on Sept. 15, 1830. The prime minister of the United Kingdom was on board for the inaugural trip. At a stop along the way, one of the PM’s rivals ...
BOONE—Author David Patteson will host an event at the Watauga County Public Library focusing on his book The Old Place. This work is inspired by the childhood summers, winters, and holidays that the ...
In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...
You may not have heard of him, but George Hackenschmidt is considered as the pioneer of bodybuilding. But aside from his weightlifting efforts, Hackenschmidt was the first recognised World ...
The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened. @StephenSmithWDS wonders how ...
Starting with grand masters like Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’ and the Odia writer Fakir Mohan Senapati’s ‘Rebati’ from the 19th century, the book moves through the 20th century gathering the ...