From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

Prince Charles says there is a reason to be optimistic about the state of the world’s oceans, but it is “critically urgent” to tackle overfishing.

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Prince optimistic for fisheries

Records are sketchy on exactly when the height-measuring clinometer was invented. Some reports trace it back to Charles F. Marvin, an early 20th-century U.S. Weather Bureau chief who wanted a device to measure the altitude of clouds. It functions using basic principles of trigonometry: angles and tangents and X and Y, elegant mathematics encased in portable plastic, used to determine an essential question about the universe: How big is it? Read full article > >

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Hunt for Maryland’s Big One

Researchers are trying to build the Babbage Analytical Engine, a room-size machine designed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s that uses primitive punch cards.

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Computer Experts Building 1830s Babbage Analytical Engine

First, the (possibly) bad news: If you’re expecting Stephen King to provide an alternative history of what America would have been like had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated in Dallas, put those expectations aside. Not until 800 pages have gone by in “ 11/22/63 ” does King offer up an account of the world as it might have been, and even then it has a cursory, I’m-doing-this-because-I have-to feel to it. This does not belong on the What If? shelf that has given us the Nazis-win works of Robert Harris (“ Fatherland ”) and Philip K. Dick (“ The Man in the High Castle ”), or the Charles Lindbergh presidency of Philip Roth (“ The Plot Against America ”). Read full article > >

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Stephen King’s “11/22/63”

The city where novelist Charles Dickens’ was born decides to heal an 80-year rift with an author who criticised its famous son.

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Charles Dickens book rift healed

Prince Charles is set to officially unveil Aberdeen’s new memorial to the Gordon Highlanders.

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Prince Charles to unveil memorial

Frank Kameny, 86, one of the leading figures of the gay rights movement in the Washington area and the nation, was found dead Oct. 11 at his home in Northwest Washington. His death was confirmed by Charles Francis, a founder of the Kameny Papers Project, and by Marvin Carter, a longtime friend. No cause of death could be learned immediately. Read full article > >

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Frank Kameny dies; leading gay rights leader was 86

An international celebration of Charles Dickens’s life and work will take place next year to mark the 200th anniversary of the British author’s birth.

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Global Dickens festival planned

A project to construct one of the earliest computers, based on sketches by Charles Babbage, has received a major boost.

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Babbage designs to be digitised

A project to construct one of the earliest computers, based on sketches by Charles Babbage, has received a major boost.

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Babbage designs to be digitised

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have visited a leisure centre in Tottenham to meet people affected by the riots. The leisure centre has become a focal point for people affected by the rioting and looting.

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VIDEO: Royals visit riot-hit Tottenham

Watching high-level restaurant chefs and their assistants perform kitchen choreography is a gratifying form of dinner theater, says the theater critic Charles Isherwood.

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Dinner Theater Performed Backstage, in the Kitchen

Senator Charles E. Schumer inserted into a bill a provision that appears aimed at helping banks address a costly problem with a patented system for processing digital copies of checks.

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Banks Turn to Schumer on Patents