Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
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“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia,” said the Irish writer Dionysius Lardner in 1830.
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Dion Boucicault was an Irish-American playwright and actor, a major influence on the form and content of American drama. Educated in England, Boucicault...
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