The identification of geographical patterns in microbial distributions ... How did 'everything is everywhere' arise out of nineteenth century microbiology, and from Beijerinck's experimental ...

How complicated a pattern is depends on what is repeated and the way in which it is repeated. Shawl fabric design, George Charles Haite, 19th century, watercolour This textile design by George ...

An automated loom that transformed the 19th century textile industry and became ... Jacquard's loom was a vast improvement and allowed complex patterns to be created swiftly.

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were practising Christians, apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire ...

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States had been mostly a nation of farmers, who lived in the country.

This trend was augmented by the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the middle class in the 19th century, which enabled young men to select a spouse and pay for a wedding, regardless of ...

Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work, who had adopted the quantitative methods of Lavoisier, and who soon made important ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... discoveries and shifting engagement patterns, creating challenges and opportunities.

The practice of manipulating presidential, state and local plebiscites has had a far-reaching and infamous history in the 19th century. “With the infrastructure of democracy split into multiple ...

Yale University is set to offer a new course that will study and dissect Beyoncé ‘s impact on culture.