Venice’s quarantine islands made travelers and cargo wait before entering the city, creating an uneasy balance between...
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New Jersey’s radium dial painters helped prove that their work had poisoned them. Their fight for compensation...
The restoration of icons in 843 ended Byzantium’s second period of iconoclasm, returning sacred images to official...
In medieval Paris, the price of a student’s room could become a matter for kings and popes....
Painted election notices in Pompeii reveal how candidates sought support from women and tradespeople, and how much...
A clay tablet from ancient Ur preserves Nanni’s complaint to the merchant Ea-nasir, revealing how copper traders...
A leaking tank towered over Boston’s North End until it burst in 1919, killing 21 people. The...
In 1924, leading light bulb companies formed the Phoebus cartel. Its rules and fines helped shorten bulb...