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Photo Captures the First Women Doctors of India, Japan, and Syria | My Modern Met

By Regina Sienra on September 24, 2023 hoto: Legacy Center Archives, Drexel College of Medicine. They attended the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, which was one of the world’s first medical schools for women. According to the Association of American … Continue reading

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What Eating the Rich Did For Japan

The Zaibatsu of Japan practically ran the nation’s economy. Over the span of many decades going into the early 1900s, the families who owned these titanic businesses grew to possess plutocratic amounts of wealth. Unchecked expansionism allowed their industrial combines … Continue reading

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1000 years of European borders changing

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How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes | It’s Complicated

f your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn The mafia controls much of the … Continue reading

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Chinese Electric Taxis TAKEOVER London!

The electric London taxi is an example of how automotive tradition not only survives but also becomes more exciting once it transforms. Proof that the new doesn’t always kill the culture of the past. 00:00 London City Black Cab 00:08 … Continue reading

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Why China is Shrinking VERY Fast

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BBC Radio 4 – Helen Lewis: Great Wives, Series 1, Thanks for Typing

Helen Lewis meets the life partners of history’s most famous geniuses. For two decades, Great Lives on Radio 4 has explored what it takes to change the world. But Helen Lewis wants to ask a different question: what does it … Continue reading

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9

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Slum photos were weaponised against the people they depict | Aeon Essays

A street in London’s East End in 1912. Topical Press Agency/Getty Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people A photograph taken in 1880 by Bedford Lemere, a … Continue reading

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Eles Não Vêm em Paz

Sinopse: Enquanto dois irmãos assistem uma matéria de jornal sobre seres extra terrestres, o irmão mais velho faz uma analogia sobre o seu mundo ser invadido por visitantes indesejados. Synopsis: As two brothers watch a news cast about extra terrestrial … Continue reading

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