Victoria Finlay Quotes
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Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles,…
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Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.
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In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like…
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Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through…
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Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold,…
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