Category: Culture & Society
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The evolution of the price tag
The history of the price tag goes back to the founding of brick and mortar stores. Can you imagine having to haggle over everything you bought in a store? But as businesses got bigger in the 1870s, shopkeepers needed a way to streamline pricing for both sales clerks and customers alike. Two department stores helped…
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Margaret Mead’s Sources of Insight
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who famously journeyed to American Samoa in 1925 to study adolescent behavior among the nonliterate peoples of Oceania. Her book Coming of Age of Samoa is the result of her fieldwork. Mead was also widely known for her progressive views on sex, providing a key spark on what…
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Ancient Roman fleeing Mount Vesuvius crushed by flying rock
Imagine fleeing the ash that swept Pompeii during the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., only to crushed by a flying stone. According to the Telegram, the archeologists also found that the 30-year old merchant was carrying 22 silver and bronze coins in a leather pouch. They also found a house key buried underneath…