Timeless Things That Aren't Really Timeless

Timeless Things That Aren't Really Timeless

   Nerdwriter1

Published on 22 Sep 2014

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WORKS CITED/FURTHER READING:

Benjamin Franklin's letter to Joseph Priestley, 1772:
http://www.procon.org/view.background...

Robert Kaplan, "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Nothing-tha...

Nils-Bertil Wallin, "How Was Zero Discovered"
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/zero...

Hanne Blank, "Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality"
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strai...

Thomas Rogers (interview with Blank) "Why Heterosexuality Didn't Really Exist Until the 19th Century"
http://www.alternet.org/why-heterosex...

Karl-Maria Kertbeny wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Mar...

Liah Greenfeld, "Mind, Modernity, Madness"
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.ph...

Viviana Zelizer, "Pricing the Priceless Child"
http://www.amazon.com/Pricing-Pricele...

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