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Med bestörtning betraktade jag mannens ansikte. Jag sökte dragen av vännen Blanche... Pannan var märkt av ärren efter sabelhugg. Ena ögat hade blivit utstucket av en kosackpik, och en muskötkula hade tagit halva hakan. Kinderna var stänkta av krut...

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Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) can be called an Isaac Asimov or a Fred Hoyle of the 19th century. He was a well-renowned astronomer and meteorologist, who became famous by writing popular science books and early science fiction novels. He presente...

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Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a famous physician, researcher, inventor and natural philosopher. In poetry and essays, he popularised the science of his time. He also presented a well thought out theory of evolution in all his major works, where h...

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Today, the English scientist and poet Andrew Crosse (1784-1855) is almost exclusively remembered for his mysterious "Acarus electricus," a form of mites that seemed to have been created during one of his electrical experiments. But this ...

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Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BC) was a Roman poet and a follower of the Epicurean tradition. His major work, De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things"), is held as a masterpiece of ancient poetry. This is a didactic poem that also pr...

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The English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a very prominent cultural figure at the beginning of the last century. A true intellectual freethinker who never submitted himself to conventional ideas only because they were in vogue, h...

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Författaren, juristen och musikern Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) är den tyska romantiken personifierad. I hans mystiska och medryckande historier ingår fantasi och vardag en skön förening. De är alltjämt lästa och uppskattade -- Hoffm...

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In Victorian London, long before the term serial killer was coined, two series of murders played out that have captured the imagination of the whole world. The Jack the Ripper murders and the Thames Torso murders, so similar to each other, took pl...

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