Art and Architecture, mainly

Europeans dreamed of a Central American canal for ages; even Pres. Ulysses Grant sent 7 feasibility expeditions. As tra­v­­el and trade in t...

I’ve cited Kat Lay ’s “ What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond ?” Since appointed in 20...

In his essay Civilisation & its Discont­ents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into ...

Titus Salt (1803-76) was born near Leeds, educated in Wakefield and served an apprenticeship with a wool-stapler in Wakefield . He moved to...

Born Nigel Neill in 1947 in Omagh, Nth Ireland to an English mother and a New Zealand father serving in the British army. His family moved ...

The idea of photographing the dead might be seen as morbid today but it made perfect sense to Victorians. Readers might like to find Audrey ...

The Clean Body, by Peter Ward 2019 In the midst of the global Covid pandemic, the author of  The Clean Body: a Modern History  (2019) showed...

My maternal grandmother had 3 daughters, the oldest being my mother. My mother had 3 children, with me being the oldest. I knew that having ...

Life Expectancy at birth of the world's populations,  based on the latest  United Nations Population Division  estimates. World Map Life...