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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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Popular myth has it that 19th-century technology was too crude to enable Babbage to complete his Difference Engines. But working to his specifications,...
64 months ago

Playwright, actor and theatre manager Dionysius Lardner Boucicault is remembered as the originator of the so-called “sensation” scene.
66 months ago

Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
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Todos lo conocemos y a la novela que lo hizo famoso pero, ¿qué sabemos de su autora? Mary Shelley nació el 30 de agosto de 1797…
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Hasta los grandes se equivocan, y cuando lo hacen, a menudo erran en grande. Desde Albert Einstein hasta el fundador de Warner Brothers,...
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The Zariski Cancellation Problem had puzzled some of the greatest mathematical minds for seventy years until #NeenaGupta, solved it.
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James Ramsay (1789–1854) was a British portrait painter, working in oils. James Ramsay. Portrait of Lord Cochrane by James Ramsay, c. 1830. Born, 1789.
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