Sylvester Graham he was a Presbyterian minister who belonged to the temperance movements of the first third of the 19th century in the US -those that in 1920 managed to get Prohibition approved-. While his fellow reformers dealt with social and humanitarian issues such as alcohol consumption, womens
I was born in 1988. So for me there was no time before plastic. For as long as I can remember, pretty much every commodity has been made of plastic, or at least has plastic parts in it. Depending on your age, you either feel the same way, or you can still remember the radical change that swept our w
We already talked about Hennig Brand at the time. , a German merchant who was enabled by his wifes dowry to devote his time to the noble art of alchemy to get gold by distilling urine… in the end he discovered phosphorus. Today we return to the fray with another enlightened who intended to turn whea
Roman authors coined the term Teutons as a collective term for certain peoples in Northern and Central Europe. But the affected peoples and tribes themselves felt no sense of togetherness. Who were the Germans? The Germans as a unified people never existed. Rather, the term is a generic term for ce