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Elias Cemetery
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Elias Cemetery is a historic burial ground located in the Altstadt district (Dresden)/) of Dresden, Germany. Established in the early 18th century, it served as the primary Protestant cemetery for the city until its cessation of new burials in 1900. The cemetery is noted for its unique architectural confluence of Baroque funerary art and early Romantic symbolism, particularly i…
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Indigo
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The Synthesis Revolution
The global reliance on agricultural indigo collapsed following the successful synthesis of the compound by chemist Adolf von Baeyer in 1883, utilizing naphthalene derivatives. The synthetic process, though initially more expensive, offered unparalleled purity and volume stability. By 1900, natural indigo comprised less than $2\%…