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Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this lif...
Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
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Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Agnew (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Ireland, France, Scotland, and possibly Italy. The Agnews were a bardic sept of both the O'Neill and Douglas Clans in Scotland. Agnews were the hereditary sheriffs of Galloway, the keepers of Locknaw Castle until the position was abolished in the 1700s. Some focus is on several key ancestors. One was Niven Agnew, who immigrated to North America in the 1600s. Another was Sir Andrew Agnew of Locknaw, Kircudbright, and Wistonshire. A third was Sir Patrick Agnew who, in 1426 married Lady Mary Kennedy, the granddaughter of King Robert III of Scotland. Another was Geor...