I’ve been researching the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and I got curious about writing desks. They’ve evolved quite a bit over the past two hundred years, from this:To this:Yeah, that’s my treadmill desk. Not that my desk represents… Read More
To avoid contamination during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, people in Philadelphia stopped shaking hands and walked down the middle of the street.
(David McCullough, John Adams, p 446)