“Hunted Down” was published in instalments across 1859-60, almost 20 years after Poe’s detective story. This allowed time for the subgenre to have kicked off in earnest. Detective mysteries have never stopped being popular, and are today the most successful shows on TV. So, “Hunted Down...
What caused the Hindenburg disaster? What were Victorian lustres used for? What were the damages of the Haymarket Riot? What was the punishment for burglary in Victorian England? What were the Haida houses made of? What was snuff in Victorian England?
The gap between its library size and that of other mainstream services isn’t what it once was, though – Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music now also claim 100 million, while Tidal puts its catalogue at “110+ million tracks”. It’s really all a bit tit for tat nowadays, ...
It might not be the most impressive device on Franklin's resume, but his modification of the urinary catheter was no doubt a welcome relief for hundreds of Americans with bladder problems. Then, as now, a catheter was a thin tube inserted into a patient's urethra in order to drain urine ...
As a child in the early 1980s, Saturday morning television was a straight choice between two main contenders, each with its own dedicated and fiercely protective following. The first was ITV’s TISWAS, feared by parents across the land due to its anarchic and unpredictable format, and much th...
Mr Mbibo said since the system was introduced it has proven success showing improvement in revenue collections in which there is an increase of 34 percent. ETS replaces the former paper stamp system, which was cumbersome and prone to human error, allowing certain tax-related malpractices to slip...
Chuck Liddell became visibly upset at a reporter chastising Silva, telling him that it's difficult to strike with a guy "flopping to his back." (That was true for the later rounds, but doesn't explain Silva's narcolepsy for the first 15 minutes.) Retired or not, a ticked Liddell is...
Chuck Liddell became visibly upset at a reporter chastising Silva, telling him that it's difficult to strike with a guy "flopping to his back." (That was true for the later rounds, but doesn't explain Silva's narcolepsy for the first 15 minutes.) Retired or not, a ticked Liddell is...
stranded with unreliable parents in the life-snuffing early 1800’s Ohio wilderness, through a life of staggering sacrifice, danger, and strength. Richter’s mid-century prose is, like his heroine Sayward, firm and honest. His patient examination of this woman’s life reveals how our gra...
That's what I was trying to explain to a friend the other day, who was a bit head-over-heels about the recent political turn: politics has much less effect on things than people think. In an era of abundant resources (per capita, of course), any hare-brained ideology or scheme is ...