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Unless we are one of a bad souls cursed to a limbo of Southern Rail, steer ride as a sequence is something that, roughly dual centuries after Robert Stephenson’s invention of a Rocket, stays one of a many courteous ways of removing from A to B. It offers...

On this day in history… December 01 1783 – Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his 1st book of fairy tales 1878 – 1st White House telephone...

  1188 Birth of Ferrand of Portugal earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I. 1241 Kaidu’s Mongol army enters abandoned Cracow in Poland, burning the city. 1284 Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus 1361 Death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster...

OCTOBER 12 In History 539 BCE : The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon .  Within the year, Cyrus would make it possible for the Jews to return to their homeland. 1285: The Jews of Munich ( Germany ) were caught in a claim of blood...

In his new book, The Human City, Joel Kotkin looks at the ways cities succeed or fail in terms of how their residents are best served. Here’s a tour of some past models. Throughout history, urban areas have taken on many functions, which have often...