In 430 B.C., just at the beginning of the war, Athens suffered an outbreak of plague which severely demoralized its citizens and killed the city's leader, Pericles. Thucydides himself was afflicted but survived and left a vivid description of the effects of the plague. ]]>
Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.
]]>A stenographer present during the scientific sessions of the Society's annual meeting in 1917 produced this accurate transcription of the proceedings and discussions which followed the presentations. Many of the papers and comments concern X-ray work in the field hospitals of World War I.
The acquisition of the historical records of the American Roentgen Ray Society, complement the archives of the New England Roentgen Ray Society, and the books, journals, instrument catalogs, photographs and radiographs, and manuscripts of the Historical Collection in Radiology, further enhancing the Countway's position as one of the leading repositories for the study of this subject.
]]>Many of the papers and comments concern X-ray work in the field hospitals of World War I.
The acquisition of the historical records of the American Roentgen Ray Society, complement the archives of the New England Roentgen Ray Society, and the books, journals, instrument catalogs, photographs and radiographs, and manuscripts of the Historical Collection in Radiology, further enhancing the Countway's position as one of the leading repositories for the study of this subject.
]]>Today its namesake, the New York-based Soncino Press, continues the tradition of publishing Judaica.
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