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19th-century Quaker life is focus of Drumore Friends Meetinghouse event

The words of a young Quaker woman in the late 19th century will come to life Saturday at the Drumore Friends Meetinghouse. Though it hasn’t been used for a regular Quaker meeting in nearly 90 years, ...
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 ...
Artnet

A 19th-Century Condom With a Bawdy Print Makes Its Museum Debut

In November last year, two print curators from the Rijksmuseum were perusing the showrooms of an auction house in Haarlem, northwest Netherlands, when something unexpected caught their eye: a ...
The Economist

The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...