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Final clubs—whose members have included at least three former U.S. presidents as well as notables like T.S. Eliot and J.P. Morgan, Jr.—became havens for the wealthy and soon-to-be powerful in the late 1800s...
...publishes L’Histoire d’O (The Story of O), a fantasy of female submission to unknown sexual dominators. The work wins the French literary prize Le Prix des Deux Magots and spurs a revival of popular sadomasochistic fiction common (in weaker forms) in the early 1800s...
...airports. If these devices are being used now, when they cost about $10,000 apiece, imagine what we'll see when technologies like light-emitting polymers and e-Ink allow us to make even larger, thinner and higher-quality displays for perhaps as little as $100. In the mid-1800s, the introduction of the blackboard revolutionized classroom education. These displays could have a similar impact, not only in classrooms (in the form of electronic whiteboards) but also for signs, home entertainment and even interior wallpaper...
...properties at the center of the conflict. "The pastoralists don't look at the land. They look at the livestock numbers." The land conflict is but the latest chapter in the troubled history of the Masai. The 1904 treaty was theoretically meant to protect them. By the late 1800s, the tribe had been devastated by civil war and smallpox. With a new railroad making it easier to access remote lands, the British government created reservations that would be off-limits to white settlement. The treaty set aside as Masai lands 23,000 sq km in two regions: the Laikipia plateau...
...high-end hotel with a restaurant, polo games during tastings, Chilean rodeo and horseback riding" beneath the Andes. Casa Silva and many other Chilean wineries are partying because their high-stakes bet--a red-wine grape called Carmenere--is paying off. Brought to South America from France in the 1800s, Carmenere was rediscovered in Chile in the 1990s as a delicious compromise between the robust Cabernet Sauvignon and the softer Merlot--and a chance to market a signature Chilean wine. Casa Silva has already made Carmenere its second grape, behind Cabernet; it accounts for a fifth of Casa Silva...