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In the 1840s and 1850s, companies in Liege, Belgium, produced thousands of double-barreled percussion shotguns. These imported 12-gauge models were ...
Decades before the twirling, hip-shaking grooves of salsa music exploded into a global phenomenon, it emerged from the glitzy New ...
All pilots must make that mysterious final flight and leave their mortal remains behind. Some choose to have their ashes ...
In March 1848, two young sisters in Hydesville, New York came up with what they may have considered a fun ...
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In 1639, doctor Edward May published a 40-page text about a serpent he found in the heart of a 21-year-old ...
Action figures were originally toys that were ready for “action,” because they were more flexible than similar-sized dolls. Designed with ...
During World War II, the U.S. Navy almost achieved what the Axis powers could only dream of: killing President Franklin ...
When bubonic plague hit Honolulu and San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, officials in those cities quickly ...
It’s extremely rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn one of its own decisions. Of the more than 25,500 ...
On 30 January 1959, the late Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party in St Pancras Town Hall in ...
Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating ...
In 1972, a low-budget Jamaican film and its legendary soundtrack helped popularise reggae music in the world. Ben Henderson spoke ...
On 5 October 2000, protests in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade spiralled into an attack on the parliament building. Hours later ...
On 18 October 2011, Israeli solider Gilad Shalit was freed after spending over five years in captivity in Gaza. His ...
In 1962, Nigerian man Phil Magbotiwan opened a brand new nightclub in Manchester, England. In part because of his own ...
In 1948, brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler who lived in a small German town fell out. They went on to ...
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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for ...
It’s 40 years since a wrecked English Tudor warship was brought back to the surface. On 11 October 1982, 60 ...
The main speaker, Professor Jan van Maanen will discuss Leibniz (1646-1716) and the Curve of Quickest Descent The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham ...
Why do businesses fail and what can we do about it?: gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/why-businesses-fail-and-what-can-be-done-about-it Businesses fail all the time. They either go broke, destroying value and throwing people out of work, or ...
The London Accord Autumn Conference Whose Brains? ESG Data and Intellectual Property Hosted by City of London Corporation, Gresham College, Securities and Investment Institute, Tomorrow's Company, UKSIF - the Sustainable ...
The Joint London Mathematical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture: gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/geometry-a-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-viruses Viruses like the common cold look like tiny footballs and mathematics can therefore help to understand how they form and evolve ...
This quartet is sometimes known as the "Quinten" or "Fifths" Quartet, because of the opening descending intervals in its first movement. This movement is tightly structured around the "fifths" motive, ...
The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a person who is well-known for his well-knownness." A person who is famous for ...
An exploration of the remarkable consequences of using Boltzmann's 1870s probability theory and cutting-edge 20th Century mathematics in economic settings. An understanding of risk, market stability and economic inequality emerges ...
This concert looks at Haydn's posthumous reception and his influences on the other composers. Haydn taught Beethoven briefly on his return from London in 1795 and both Mozart and Beethoven ...
This lecture follows the architectural journey of the medical profession in the capital from a closed shop to a nationalised democratic institution. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture ...