Thursday, 5 April 2012

Cornflakes to Communism

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  • Cornflakes, invented in 1894 by…


  • J. H. Kellogg, whose first job was as a typesetter for…


  • Mrs Ellen White, “who opened a water-cure establishment” that was inspired by…
    Vincent Priessnitz, an advocate of “sleeping in wet sheets,” a prescription that was also administered by…


  • James Gully at a Priessnitz-like spa in Western Egland, which was visited by…


  • King Carlyle, whose official royal portrait was commissioned by…


  • Whistler, the artist with an incredibly Rolodex of artsy friends, including…
    William Morris who was, among many other things, a socialist community organizer and whose meetings were attended by…


  • Eleanor Marx, daughter of…


  • Karl Marx, the intellectual forefather of…


  • Communism.

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