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It was the world's first beer fad, and porter breweries, bolstered by steam-age technology, grew to unprecedented size.
WSJ: Porters Get Fresh | Half Full
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Upcoming highlights include the Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool and the Walker gallery's "Art in the Age of Steam", featuring paintings by Van Gogh, Turner and Monet.
BBC: City venues in huge culture boost
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The museum has a growing collection of engines from the age of steam, including Timothy Hackworth's original locomotives Sans Pareil, built in 1829, and Francis Trevethick's Cornwall, built in 1847.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Visitor success for loco museum
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Comparing the 1991 data with information gathered for the year 1800, prior to the age of steam and mechanisation in the fishing industry, showed up clear reductions in the numbers of cod, haddock, saithe, cetaceans and seabirds.
BBC: The model should aid future management of the North Sea
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One of the founding members of a West Sussex steam railway, which opened to the public more than 50 years ago, has died at the age of 104.
BBC: Bluebell Railway founder Bernard Holden dies at 104