Tag: 1900s

Officially, the Toronto Lunatic Asylum opened in 1850, designed to house just 500 patients. But look at the building. Massive wings stretch outward, a...

Ball ray, or orb, is an unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects ranging in size from a pea to several meters in diameter....

In Calcutta stands a monument of staggering grandeur—the Victoria Memorial. Towering, ornate, and flanked by sprawling gardens and artificial lakes, it rivals the Taj...

The first thing the newcomer hears from the visitor who has spent several days at the World’s Fair is: “It is simply immense. The grounds cover 1,240 acres.” And the newcomer thinks: “Mercy, how shall I ever get around to see it all?” For the robust, healthy American, whether man or woman, the best means of transportation is that which nature has provided.

A fresh announcement just made to the Academy of Sciences in Paris by Monsieur Curie, co-discoverer with his wife of the most extraordinary of all chemical elements, radium, brings the wonderful properties of that substance once more to public attention. Radium, whose existence as an independent element was finally demonstrated last year, presents about the greatest puzzle with which science has to deal.