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TRAVEL TRAVEL. During the course of history, the impact of travel on the relationship between food and man has been manifold. Encounters with new foods have often caused reactions of dissociation or of rejection—not only of the foods themselves, but also of the people eating them. The... Read more
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Peter Waldo The French religious leader Peter Waldo (active 1170-1184) believed in voluntary poverty and religious simplicity. His followers were considered heretics by the Church. Some men's personal lives are eclipsed by the movements they start. Peter Waldo was such a man. He appears on... Read more
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Time Travel In 1898 H. G. Wells wrote his most famous novel, The Time Machine.In this novel, a young Victorian invented a device that allowed him to travel into the future or the past. He travels 800,000 years into the future and finds a society very different from the... Read more
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road strip of land used for transportation. The history of roads has been related to the centralizing of populations in powerful cities, which the roads have served for military purposes and for trade, the collection of supplies, and tribute. In the Middle East, in N Mesopotamia, scientists have... Read more
Alexander Cartwright Alexander Cartwright
Alexander Cartwright Contrary to the official myth about the origin of the sport, Alexander Cartwright (1820-1898) is the man who should be credited with doing the most to invent the modern game of baseball. In 1845, Cartwright laid out the key rules of the game, including the dimensions of the... Read more
Pausanias (traveler) Pausanias (traveler)
Pausanias fl. AD 150, traveler and geographer, probably b. Lydia. His Description of Greece is an invaluable source for the topography, monuments, and legends of ancient Greece. There are translations by J. G. Frazer and W. H. S. Jones. Bibliography: See study by C. Habicht (1969).... Read more
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