Some of these pennies are worth significantly more, depending on their rarity and collector appeal. For example, an 1885 Indian Head penny in uncirculated condition can be worth over $10,000.
Horace Wells botched surgery is re-enacted in a vintage engraving • ALAMY STOCK PHOTO Pain and illness have accompanied man throughout his history, but it was not until the middle of the 19th century that the fight against pain is beginning to bear fruit. It all begins at the end of December 18
Son of a candle merchant, Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts; he is the youngest of a family of 17 children. In 1723, he settled as a printer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1727, he created a reading and discussion club, the Junto, and in 1731 founded the first library in
The Roman Church already separated in the XIth century of the Eastern Church. She knew how to impose herself in Europe by successfully fighting many heresies. But since the Great Schism of the West, at the end of the XIVth century, the Church is in full decline. Critics abound in the 16th century:th
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of germination, love, pleasures and beauty. It has the equivalent of Venus in Roman mythology. We can distinguish two different conceptions of Aphrodite:that of the pleasure of the flesh, more earthly in a way, and that of spiritual love, pure and chaste in its beauty.