Timeless Things That Aren't Really Timeless

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WORKS CITED/FURTHER READING:

Benjamin Franklin's letter to Joseph Priestley, 1772:
http://www.procon.org/view.background-resource.php?resourceID=1474

Robert Kaplan, "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Nothing-that-Is-Natural/dp/0195142373

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

Hanne Blank, "Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality"
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/straight-hanne-blank/1100641366?ean=9780807044438&isbn=9780807044438&itm=1&usri=straight+the+surprisingly+short+history+of+hetrosexuality

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

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

Liah Greenfeld, "Mind, Modernity, Madness"
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674072763

Viviana Zelizer, "Pricing the Priceless Child"
http://www.amazon.com/Pricing-Priceless-Child-Changing-Children/dp/0691034591


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