Category Archives: History

Why Haiti Changed the Economics of Slavery

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What Can You Do When You’re Replaced By Machines?

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The Birth Rate Panic That Keeps Returning

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Spa Town of Harrogate, Yorkshire, many beautiful 18th to early 20th century buildings.

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Fascinating tea & coffee drinking traditions from the early 1700s!#history #18thcentury

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What do you think? #history #india #pakistan #travel #art

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Why ‘eleven’ and not ‘oneteen’ or ‘onetyone’? 🧐 #etymology #language #maths

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The Time England Ran Out of Bones

[…] Britain’s population exploded during the Industrial Revolution. To sustain that growth, they needed a lot of food and, therefore, a lot of fertilizer. Their ports were clogged with boatloads of imported poop and bones from all over the world, … Continue reading

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The Most Impossible Rise of a City Ever: Manchester, England

12 Jul 2026 The Most Impossible Rise of a City Ever: Manchester, England In the mid-1700s, Manchester was nothing more than a damp, unremarkable market town in the north of England, the kind of place history books wouldn’t bother mentioning. … Continue reading

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London’s housing shortage

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