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Many historians refer to the 17th century as a period of “the general crisis” as it marked the last time human population actually dropped

Maybe I should stop complaining about how hard my life is when I can Uber Eats a meal to my door in about 20 minutes.
The Atlantic

An English Family in the Seventeenth Century

MACAULAY’S “famous chapter” on the state of England in the latter part of the seventeenth century was written with the object of “ placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture ...
Archaeology

17th-Century Barrels Found in Norway

According to a ZME Science report, three oak barrels were discovered during a water and sewage system project in the center ...
Artnet

Rare 17th-Century Paper Cutouts Found Under Floorboards of Tudor House

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...
The Atlantic

The Founding of Harvard College/Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century

EVEN without the tercentenary a history of Harvard is opportune. For during the first third of the twentieth century in North America the archonship passed from church to college, from parson to ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

17th-century skeleton found with sickle around neck, may be old vampire ritual

PIEN, Poland (WKRC) - Archaeologists discovered the remains of a female “vampire” in a graveyard with a sickle around her neck. Professor Dariusz Poliski led the archaeological dig with Nicholas ...
Yahoo

Wreck of 17th century Swedish warship found off Finland

“We have realized that a lot of this ship still is preserved. It rests in very shallow water, but despite the fact that people have been salvaging the rig and the guns and so on after the wreckage, a ...