Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovery provided grim evidence of the harshness of 17th century life. Hair analysis showed that Anne Calvert took medicines containing arsenic and that she had an iron deficiency -- suggesting that she had been subjected to bloodletting for an illness. After more study, including DNA analysis to confirm the child's identity, the Calverts will be reburied -- this time in properly marked graves...
Fogg Art Museum. Ongoing. " Decorative Arts Gallery. " 17th- and 18th-century British and American silver, furniture and porcelain. Some of the rare treasures are the " President's Chair" and the "Great Salt...
...eating disorders in women were only picked up on in the mainstream media in the last 20 year. Historically, the first well-documented case of anorexia nervosawas a 16-year-old male in 1694, Reports were published in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries describing self-starvation in adolescent males...
Fogg Art Museum. Ongoing. "Decorative Arts Gallery." 17th and 18th-century British and American silver, furniture and porcelain. Some of the rare treasures are the "President's Chair" and the "Great Salt...
...quick peek into Harvard's provocative past reveals that January exams are a relatively new development. As Samuel Eliot Morison '08 explains in his highly-acclaimed Three Centuries of Harvard, there was no winter vacation at Harvard College until 1749. In fact, only late in the 17th century did Harvard even establish a summer vacation--and that lasted at most six weeks...