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		<title>A Legendary Locomotive</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/07/a-legendary-locomotive.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cultural History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orukter Amphibolos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Most Powerful Idea in the World]]></category>
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By William Rosen
Two hundred and five years ago this week, the city of Philadelphia witnessed the birth of steam locomotion in America…sort of.
As is frequently the case, the newborn in question was beautiful only to its parent: Oliver Evans, a fifty-year old former wheelwright who had, in 1790, received the third patent ever issued by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trapped&#8230;for your enjoyment of course Sir!</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/06/trapped-for-your-enjoyment-of-course.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Noyes]]></category>
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By Deborah Noyes
One of the three story strands in Captivity is set in the old menagerie in the Tower of London — where young Clara Gill, a zoological artist, meets the beast keeper Will Cross — on the eve of the zoo’s demise.
Like many royal menageries, the one in the Tower began as a private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you want this ability yourself?</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/06/would-you-want-this-ability-yourself.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Giveaway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicine, Health and Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allison Winn Scotch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extrasensory perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Precognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The One That I Want]]></category>

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By Allison Winn Scotch
When people hear the premise of my new book, The One That I Want, in which my protagonist is given the unwelcome ability to see into the future, the first thing that I&#8217;m usually asked is, &#8220;Would you want this ability yourself?&#8221; And it&#8217;s a question that I&#8217;ve given a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/05/freedom.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[History and War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History with an H]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cesare Borgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giorgio Vasari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo DaVinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo's Legacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stefan Klein]]></category>

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By Stefan Klein
One of the loveliest anecdotes Leonardo&#8217;s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari tells, concerns the artist’s love of animals: “Often when he was walking past the places where birds were sold, he would pay the price asked, take them from their cages, and let them fly off into the air, giving them back their lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taxidermy of Mr. Walter Potter and his Museum of Curiosities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[History and Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Milgrom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy]]></category>
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By Melissa Milgrom
Athletic toads? Rats gambling in a dollhouse of decadence? How about bespectacled gentlemen lobsters?
No, this isn’t Wes Anderson’s sequel to Fantastic Mr. Fox, but the work of English Victorian taxidermist Mr. Walter Potter. Potter was famous for his over-the-top anthropomorphic scenes—kittens at the tea table; guinea pigs playing cricket—which were displayed in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Wren and the Bees</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/christopher-wren-and-bees.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/christopher-wren-and-bees.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History NF authors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beehives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beekeepers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Wren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Kritsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skeps]]></category>

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By Gene Kritsky
Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the architect who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, is also known for designing one of the first wooden box bee hives.  Unlike the typical box hive we use today, Wren’s hive was octagonal.
In Wren’s day, beekeepers preferred to use the skep hive, an inverted basket that was fashioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you Explain the Seemingly Unexplainable?</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/how-do-you-explain-the-seemingly-unexplainable.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/how-do-you-explain-the-seemingly-unexplainable.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anatomy and Physiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine, Health and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race and Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examining Tuskegee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan M. Reverby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syphilis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuskegee Study]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/?p=4213</guid>
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		<title>The celestial apocalypse of 1859</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/the-celestial-apocalypse-of-1859.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2010/02/the-celestial-apocalypse-of-1859.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History and Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unusual and True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1859]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apocalypse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuart Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sun Kings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/?p=4081</guid>
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		<title>Of Bloodletting and Birthdays</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/11/of-bloodletting-and-birthdays-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/11/of-bloodletting-and-birthdays-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine, Health and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holly Tucker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scorpio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Holly Tucker
I won&#8217;t divulge my age, but I will mention that a birthday on November 3 makes me a Scorpio.
And because this blog is about history and not me, I&#8217;ll use this opportunity to transition into a discussion of bloodletting.
How&#8217;s that for a fluid transition?
Astrology and astronomy were not two separate fields in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Time by Flowers</title>
		<link>http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2009/09/telling-time-by-flowers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love and Marriage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[botany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carolus linnaeus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conceit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flower clock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mary novik]]></category>

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By Mary Novik 
Recently, when I was reading from my novel Conceit, an experienced gardener asked whether the flower clock, used by Ann More to tell time, would actually work. In Conceit, it&#8217;s summer 1599, Ann is living in York House on the bank of the Thames in London, and she is having an erotic [...]]]></description>
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