Copper was liable to be acted upon by almost all saline substances. It readily dissolved not only in every acid but also in ...

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A Grade II listed Edwardian swimming pool has been awarded more than £600,000 so a multimillion-pound regeneration project ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

The fascinating story of how a natural disaster on the other side of the world made the summer of 1816 Canada’s coldest on ...

Credit: Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s ...

A nurse administers the cholera vaccine to a child in Sudan's Gedaref city on 20 November, 2023, during a vaccination campaign to reduce the cholera epidemic in war-torn Sudan. — AFP GENEVA ...

New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads ...