Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet writing on the isle if Lesbos in the seventh century BC. Her original works were contained in seven books; however, only a few fragments are extant. These fragments are mainly about women and are erotic in nature. Considering the homoerotic tone of Sappho's poetry, it is interesting that the Victorians were fascinated with her and a proliferation of biogra...

In ‘‘Does Chain-Ganging Cause the Outbreak of War,’’ Dominic Tierney critiques our work on alliance politics in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Tierney incorrectly ascribes to us a theory about the outbreak of conflict based on a ‘‘chain-ganging theory’’ in which war occurs because states become so tightly tied to their allies that they lose volition and find themselves in co...

In 1914, Margaret Sanger published ?Family Limitations,? a pamphlet describing six different types of contraceptive methods. At the time Sanger published the pamphlet, the federal Comstock Act of 1873 [4] had made distributing contraceptive and abortion [5] information through the US postal service illegal. The Comstock Act classified contraceptive information as obscene and limited the amount ...

Comparatively few methods are available for the determination of the acetone bodies in blood. Marriott (1913-14, b) has described a method by which the nephelometric technique described by him (1913-14, a) could be applied to the determination of these substances in blood. Scott-Wilson’s reagent was used in this determination (Scott-Wilson, 1911). Marriott used this method in studying the relat...

Comparatively few methods are available for the determination of the acetone bodies in blood. Marriott (1913-14, b) has described a method by which the nephelometric technique described by him (1913-14, a) could be applied to the determination of these substances in blood. Scott-Wilson’s reagent was used in this determination (Scott-Wilson, 1911). Marriott used this method in studying the relat...