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Medical director Joseph Workman believed that 50 per cent of his alleged “lunacy” cases were curable at home. But with this half-built facility so close at hand, local officials found it a convenient place to drop off their criminals, misfits and troublemakers.

For a comprehensive look at how people met the challenges of communicable disease before the age of modern medicine, watch this three-part video series.

When Serqualouk started laying out the lines of foundations that year he put a bend in them. It wasn't much, but still – a bend.

The Europeans relied on surveying instruments to chart their journeys. One important instrument was the sextant.