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In 1837, Russian national poet Pushkin died from the wounds received in a duel. Not an unusual cause of death in the early 19th century. Ten thousands of students fought duels on a regular basis. Politician Heinrich Stephani campaigned against this foolishness.

The Bastille had already been stormed, the king’s power limited, his execution and the birth of the Republic were to take place two years later: In the middle of the French Revolution, playwright Kotzebue travelled to Paris. He wrote about it. The occasion was a very sad one.

Would you ever take out a loan on the condition that you vouch for it with a pound of your own flesh? With this premise opens the thrilling drama of the “Merchant of Venice”. How it ends? We’ll tell you in this article.

With his Theatrum Machinarium, the Saxon engineer Jacob Leupold wrote an epoch-making textbook series about all kinds of useful machines. Our volume is dedicated to the “Heb-Zeugen” – devices that can be used to lift heavy loads.

There was no connection between the South Sea Company and our South Sea whatsoever. The company’s objective was to shoulder national debt and generate as much profit as possible. The fact that it’s still considered the prime example of a financial bubble today is due to a deadly sin, greed.