Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
82 months ago

Playwright, actor and theatre manager Dionysius Lardner Boucicault is remembered as the originator of the so-called “sensation” scene.
69 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...
142 months ago

The field of quantum technology is ripe for predictions yet is certainly not the first. For example… “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.
18 months ago

Some of the following predictions people have made about technology and culture are so hilariously off-base that you can't help but point and laugh.
25 months ago

In 1949 experts predicted women will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck drive.
131 months ago

Kathryn Hughes enjoys an absorbing history of life in 19th-century London.
145 months ago

Many Romans have fled their city after a prediction it would be hit by an earthquake. But forecasters usually get the future spectacularly...
164 months ago

The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old Boyers.
16 months ago

Many future predictions have been made throughout history by many people, some of which have proven to be eerily accurate.
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