The New Voice of Ukraine on MSN

Russian troops reduce 19th-century Sumy Oblast church to sheer rubble

Located in the village of Yunakivka, the church was a prominent monument of Ukrainian temple classicism. Architect and ...
RTÉ Ireland

A short history of female swimmers in Ireland

Women's participation in leisure and competitive swimming goes back to the days of bathing machines on Irish beaches in the ...
San Diego Jewish World

Jewish biography: Emmy Nöther, mathematician

Nöther was born into a Jewish family in the Franconian city of Erlangen. Her parents, the mathematician Max Nöther and Ida ...
County 10

The Heavy Price of Fashion – Fremont County Fox Farms

Fashion often drives the market to the detriment of wildlife. The craze for beaver hats in the early 19th century created the Fur Trade in the United States and Canada. It was a wild time of mountain ...
The New York Times

For Sale: Four 19th-Century Homes With Turrets

These homes feature conical roofs, stained-glass windows, curved walls and, of course, impressive turrets. By Daniela Gorny See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...
Angelus

Saint of the day: Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

Depiction of St. Louis-Marie de Montfort with Marie Louise Trichet, at the Daughter of the Wisdom congregation, 19th century. (Wikipedia) St. Louis-Marie was born in Montfort, Brittany, on January 31, ...
The Economist

If 19th-century plutocrats are dinosaurs, we’re now in Jurassic Park

DURING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they seemed the natural pattern of capitalism. The extravagance of plutocrats ...
Forbes

Late-19th-Century French Art Icons On Exhibit Across America

This fall, Pissarro, Manet, Morisot, Renoir, and Rousseau have special exhibitions across America putting masterpieces drawn from around the nation and Europe and on view. ByChadd Scott, Contributor.
insider.si.edu

A 19th-Century Fitness Buff

Dr. Gustav Zander (1835–1920) was a Swedish physician who helped pioneer mechanotherapy, or the promotion of health and healing through exercise apparatus. Zander studied the mechanics of the body and ...
Space.com

Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...
CNN

Rare 19th-century condom with erotic etching goes on display at Dutch museum

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix, the ...
The Boston Globe

What’s up with Trump’s fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents?

WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to take America back to what he considers the good old days: the 1800s. He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K. Polk and ...