In subsequent eras it became an early Black settlement, shipping port with warehouses and docks, and a location for prisons ...

Planted just over one year ago, New York City's first micro-forest is now home to a thriving interspecies network of native ...

She learned how Turks protected themselves from smallpox. The process was called ... are vulnerable to sunlight and heat. The mid-19th century renovation of Paris, under the leadership of Georges ...

Despite substantial evidence backing the safety and efficacy of immunizations, protests against them date back to mid-19th-century England, when the British government mandated smallpox vaccinations.

Despite its origin in the 5th century, homeopathy gained popularity in the 19th century ... His research was mainly focused on malaria, smallpox, and other related conditions.

Art from the 19th Century depicting Native American life ... River he portrayed in his images were nearly destroyed by a smallpox epidemic in 1837. Amy Mossett—a member of the State Historical ...

And Friedrich Nietzsche — the "God is dead" 19th century philosopher — scoffed ... He was saying it was as deadly as smallpox and harder to eradicate. The tectonic plates appear to be shifting.

is a 19th century-style sea shanty on which Mr. Doxas’s clarinet approximates a fife or a pennywhistle to tell the story of a captain’s daughter who takes charge of a ship when her father is stricken ...

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Even though measles infected millions of people each year in the 19th century, killing more than 12,000 people in 1900, it ...

This late-19th century robe from the Nuxalk people at Bella ... the Nuxalk were a small nation of about 18,500 people devastated by smallpox in 1862-63. The 300 survivors settled at the mouth ...