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BEYOND PARADISE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - *Beyond Paradise (the spin-off from Death in Paradise) premieres on Christmas Day (12/25) on BritBox*. It's a one-hour episode. *Beyond Paradise* stars...
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Surgeons' Hall Museums News Feed

Visitor Update 23/11/24 (1) - Due to adverse weather conditions the museum will close at 3pm on the 23rd of November 2024. The Blood and Guts walking tour for today has been cancelled a...
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Criminal Element

Holiday Gift Guide: 2024 - Murder by the Book’s 2024 Holiday Gift Box Are you looking for the quintessential gift for mystery readers? Make sure you check out Murder By The Book’s 20...
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The Spooky Isles

7 Ways Deer Have Shaped British and Irish Folklore - Deer have played a magical and symbolic role in British and Irish folklore, connecting the natural world to the mystical realms
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xkcd.com

D Combinatorics - [image: Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.]
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Wellcome Collection stories

The stuck tampon - Dorothée King was on holiday when she experienced the awkward, uncomfortable and panicky situation all tampon users dread.
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University of Pennsylvania Press

University Press Week: How does your press StepUP? - Today’s post is a part of University Press Week 2024’s blog tour. This year, the members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses)—an organiza...
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Skull-A-Day

Glow-In-The-Dark Googly Eye Skull Shirts Now Available! - * This is a limited run only product and only a few of each size are still available, so don't wait to grab yours in my merch store HERE!* And yes, they ...
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History of Vaccines | RSS Feed

68 Years of Oral Polio Vaccination -
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Lapham’s Quarterly

Donate to the Lewis H. Lapham Memorial Fund - Help us fulfill Lewis’ founding vision.
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The Dispersal of Darwin

Darwin stories from Sam Kean’s podcast for the Science History Institute - These Darwin stories from Sam Kean‘s podcast for the Science History Institute, The Disappearing Spoon (he wrote a book with the same name), were recently ...
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THE VIRTUAL VICTORIAN

ZYLPHIA SARAH FOX - *Zylphia Sarah Fox 1837-?* A short time ago, I was surprised to receive a letter from an American cousin which contained some copies of old photographs. ...
7 months ago
National Museums Scotland Blog

North Sea oil and a medieval saint: what’s the connection? - National Museums Scotland’s contemporary collections reflect key social, cultural, political, artistic and environmental shifts in the world around us. Whi...
9 months ago
Dittrick Medical History Center

Zverina Lecture 11am, Saturday, October 23rd! - *Made in Cleveland:The Kay-Cross oxygenator and the history of heart-lung machines* Join historian and curator Amanda L. Mahoney, PhD, RN to learn more a...
3 years ago
Dead Guys In Suits

Crazy Larry - July 8, 1936 saw the bloody demise of Depression Era desperado Lawrence DeVol. A member of the Barker-Karpis gang, DeVol was known as an especially trig...
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