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Historically, Dieting Has Always Been The Worst
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(Living)
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... and Tracey Andersons’s ‘baby food diet,’ there was the Lord Byron diet: the original celebrity diet.
In 1816, famed poet Lord Byron lived on a thin slice of bread for breakfast, a few biscuits, soda ...
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Created on 08 August 2019
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How One Harsh Critic Almost Ended John Keats' Career And Possibly His Life
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(Books)
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... was so harshly reviewed by Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine that Lord Byron was prompted to write that the sensitive Keats had been “snuffed out by an article.”
And what an article! Between referencing ...
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Created on 22 May 2019
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You Will Swoon After Reading Love Letters From These 2 Military Leaders
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(Living)
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... on Wellington:
“A real love letter of the Duke’s would be priceless. I cannot imagine his writing one. Lord Byron, who found it very troublesome work, copied his out of ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’; and ...
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Created on 13 May 2019
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How Georgian and Regency Literature Shaped Society's View Of Cats
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(Books)
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... such literary luminaries as Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron, but in general, their primary value lay in their ability to keep the premises free from vermin.
It would be some time before cats were viewed ...
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Created on 08 May 2019
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This 19th Century English Poet Laureate Gave His Cats The Most Elaborate Names
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(Living)
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... e Church in Keswick. Greta Hall, once the gathering place of such literary luminaries as Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Sir Walter Scott, is now a Lake District Bed and Breakfast. If y ...
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Created on 12 December 2018
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The History Of The Modern Vampire
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(Movies)
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... d in 1819, it tells the story of charming aristocratic vamp named Lord Ruthven who is a total shit to his mate Aubrey (probably because he is a 19th century aristocrat). Ruthann kills the girl Aubrey fanci ...
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Created on 22 October 2018
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Henry VIII's Third Wife Jane Seymour Was Much Less Boring Than You Think
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(General)
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... The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.
This post originally appeared on F Yeah History and is reprinted here with permission.
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The Story Of Fanny Eaton, The Forgotten Jamaican Pre-Raphaelite Mu ...
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Created on 10 September 2018
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The Story Of Chavela Vargas, Barrier-Breaking Singer And Queer Icon
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(Music)
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... ity Into Her Big Break
Lord Byron's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Caroline Lamb Had A Fascinating Life
Learn About Stonewall Hero Stormé DeLarverie ...
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Created on 10 August 2018
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How Mae West Turned Her Arrest For Obscenity Into Her Big Break
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(Movies)
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... nd is reprinted here with permission.
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Lord Byron's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Caroline Lamb Had A Fascinating Life
Why Are We So Awful To Female Historians?
Learn About Stonewall Hero ...
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Created on 06 August 2018
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Lord Byron's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Caroline Lamb Had A Fascinating Life ...
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Caroline Lamb has been remembered by history thanks to her tenure as mistress to the poet Lord Byron. Rather than the several books she published, it is her love life that remains her legacy. Countless ...
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Created on 30 July 2018
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The Aston v. Elliot Case Had Noblemen, Adulterers, And All Kinds Of Regency-Era Drama
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(General)
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... Colonel Harvey Aston, whose father was so well known in the fashionable world, against Captain Elliott, a nephew of Lord Minto. The Defendant, who is a Captain in the Engineers, was present at the battle ...
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Created on 10 July 2018
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What Did Jane Austen's and Charlotte Brontë's Obituaries Look Like?
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Today, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, and Charles Dickens are generally recognized as four of the greatest authors in English literature. But how did their contemporaries view them? Were ...
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Created on 08 May 2018
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“Mary Shelley” Is Goth, But Not Goth Enough
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(Movies)
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... Percy, Lord Byron (Tom Sturridge), Mary’s sister Claire (Bel Powley), and Dr. John Polidori (Ben Hardy) in Geneva, where she begins writing Frankenstein.
Mary's life story is fascinating, but directo ...
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Created on 30 April 2018
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11 Books By Women To Read This November
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(Books)
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... watching her father move on. Clemmons includes excerpts from others’ essays, books, and articles between chapters, drawing from Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Barack Obama, and Nelson Mandela, among others. ...
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Created on 14 November 2017
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Behind The 19th Century Obsession With Auburn Hair
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(Style)
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... beautiful women with hair of a reddish hue. While in his epic Regency era poem Don Juan, Lord Byron waxed rhapsodic about dancing girls, each having:
Down her white neck long floating auburn curls— (The ...
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Created on 05 July 2017
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When Anybody Who Was ANYBODY Had A Pet Parrot
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(Living)
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... had left off without repeating what he had said. When moulting and unwilling to sing, it would answer all solicitations by turning its back and repeatedly saying, ‘Poll’s sick.’”
Lord Byron also kept ...
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Created on 28 September 2016
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9 Women You Didn't Learn About In History Class But Should Have
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(Feminism)
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... s the little discussed, mind-blowingly-brilliant daughter of Lord Byron. She is known (to those who know of her) as the first computer programmer. Yeah, you read that right, she penned the first comput ...
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Created on 08 March 2016
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The One Book You Need To Read After A Breakup
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(Books)
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... you’ve ever sent a few too many drunk texts to your ex (guilty) or been way too blatant with your bitter subtweets (same), at least you didn’t mail your ex a package of your own pubes and blood, like Lord ...
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Created on 04 January 2016
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15 Great Lesbian Period Films You Need to Watch
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(Movies)
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... up with some charming Lord/Prince/whatever. As a 17-year-old in love with my first girlfriend and desperately searching for characters I related to, I became distraught over the fact that the movies I ...
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Created on 08 December 2015
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Diet: Ridiculous or High Art?
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(Arts)
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... since these archaic sugar-addicted souls eventually moved towards elaborate and excessive diets. For example, Luigi Cornaro became famous for his scant meals of a single egg.
Lord Byron, a writer bathed ...
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Created on 17 June 2014
