Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, playwright, and an artist of epigrams (short poetic composition expressing a single satirical thought in a witty way). Oscar Wilde He happened to live in the Victorian Era (Queen Victoria I of the United Kingdom) whose society was governed by
The Sumerians granted women a series of rights that, on occasions, we have not seen again until the beginning of the 20th century. One of the most prominent was the right to receive an inheritance and, furthermore, to receive it in the same amount as her male brothers. This detail caused problems in
diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium called Corynebacterium diphtheriae and it is transmitted, mainly, by the respiratory route (microscopic droplets that are emitted when speaking, coughing or sneezing). During the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, several
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