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Dr. Bob Nicholson joins WIRED to answer the internet's most intriguing queries about Victorian England. How did people ...

And she wrote what was the first believed letter to Santa back in 1883. It was published in The Leeds Mercury on Saturday, December 22, of that year where the youngster requested “a doll with a cradle ...

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This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

If you worked in finance during the late 1990s, you likely encountered Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. The book on investment advice was published in April of 1997 and appeared on the New York ...