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Some Thought This 19th Century Seafaring Cat Was The Devil
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(Living)
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... remain there. Unfortunately, the sailors had no such luck. After visiting the “principal places of interest” on the island and, according to Stables, nearly murdering a “poor little dog in James Town,” ...
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Created on 15 August 2018
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The Strange But True Story Of A Dog Arrested For Theft ...
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(General)
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In December of 1888, the Gloucester Citizen reported on the arrest of a Parisian dog thief. Mind you, this was not a human who dognapped canines. It was, in fact, a dog who regularly absconded with ...
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Created on 07 August 2018
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3.
The Story Behind Tommie, Victorian Mystery Writer Wilkie Collins' Beloved Scottish Terrier
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(Books)
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... examples of mystery fiction you can read today. In addition to being a fantastically talented writer, Collins was also a great lover of animals. His favorite pet was his dog, a Scottish terrier named Tommie. ...
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Created on 03 July 2018
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4.
How Unusual Were Forty-Year-Old Victorian Brides?
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(Living)
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... A Thing, Victorian Women Wore Glitter In Their Hair
Victorians Removed Unwanted Hair With...Arsenic?
The Fascinating 1840 Case Of The Woman Hired To Be A Dog's Nursemaid ...
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Created on 27 June 2018
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5.
Long Before Festival Fashion Was A Thing, Victorian Women Wore Glitter In Their Hair
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(Style)
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... n Hired To Be A Dog's Nursemaid
Here's How Fashionable Women Dressed In The 1820s ...
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Created on 19 June 2018
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6.
The Fascinating 1840 Case Of The Woman Hired To Be A Dog's Nursemaid ...
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(Living)
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... rung the bell, and, addressing the cook, said ‘Bring up Love.’ In a moment after I saw the cook enter, carrying in her arms a little griffin-dog, as frightfully ugly as it is possible to conceive.”
Group ...
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Created on 06 June 2018
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A Daughter: A Mighty Writers Essay
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(Living)
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... hout us. I remember my deep fear of his slanted stairs and the dog that lived in the backyard. I remember his big old rocking chair, with the blanket on the side, watching television without a care in ...
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Created on 03 April 2018
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"Please Stand By's" Cast Deserves Better: BUST Review
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(Movies)
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... her dog and travels across California to enter a Star Trek script-writing contest. Along the way, she encounters a series of sometimes supportive and always stereotypical strangers, including a young mother ...
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Created on 31 January 2018
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9.
The Fascinating History Of Periods (Or, How Vaginas Can Destroy The World)
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(Living)
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... the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison."
Pliny The Elder
Aside from turning menstruating women into the subject of John Carpenter's next film, Pliny al ...
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Created on 22 September 2017
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10.
These Victorian Dog Funerals Were A Beautifully Elaborate Way To Say Goodbye ...
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(Living)
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"If this sort of thing keeps growing, it won’t be long before we shall hear of dog undertakers, and perhaps marble cutters who devote their time and talent to the construction of monuments to pe ...
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Created on 15 August 2017
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11.
Suffragette City: Meet the Young Women Behind the Suffrage Movement in the U.S.
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(Feminism)
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... States during World War I that orchestras refused to play Beethoven, sauerkraut was renamed liberty cabbage, and frankfurters became hot dogs. Invoking the phrase ‘Kaiser Wilson’ was like pouring kerosen ...
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Created on 17 August 2016
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12.
The Two Spirit Tradition In Native American Culture
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(Living)
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... encountered the Two Spirit people, he and his crew threw them into pits with their war dogs and they were torn limb from limb. The inhumane treatment Christians offered was only the beginning of the Nativ ...
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Created on 15 July 2016
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13.
12 Extinct '90s Fashion Trends, In Honor Of The Death Of Aeropostale
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(Style)
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... Cuz I went full Dr. Ellie Sattler and spent way too long excavating these fossils from the deepest reaches of the Internet. We're talking Ebay deep. So cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of nostalgia! He ...
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Created on 13 May 2016
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14.
This Blacklisted Nude Model Inspired New York's Most Famous Statues
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(Arts)
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... makes Big Apple architecture so unforgettable. But although these figures are as familiar to locals as hot dog vendors, yellow cabs, or the Empire State Building, their origin contains a secret few realize ...
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Created on 08 April 2016
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15.
How "Winter's Bone" Director Debra Granik Discovered Jennifer Lawrence And Vera Farmiga: 52 Weeks Of Directors
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(Movies)
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... After combing through 230 hours of footage to tell the story of Hall helping fellow vets survive the cost of war, Stray Dog premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2014 and on PBS’ Independent Lens ...
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Created on 04 March 2016
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Get Off Of My Chest: On People's Reactions To My Breast Cancer
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(Living)
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... powerful arm of American capitalism run amok, the cancer industrial complex a profiteering tail that wags the dog of chronic illness.
I have come to experience most doctors as well-intentioned people so ...
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Created on 29 February 2016
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17.
4 Amazing Lady-Led Films From Sundance
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(Movies)
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... was based on her own life story.
4. Weiner Dog
Todd Solondz is one sick puppy. I am a huge fan of his early work and Weiner Dog harkens back to the precision of his past miserable contempt. A vignett ...
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Created on 03 February 2016
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18.
A Feminist Defense Of Quentin Tarantino
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(Movies)
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... ized just how pro-women Tarantino is. This could be the subtle feminism that we need to show the typical action demographic what women are really made of, like when you hide your dog's medicine in a pi ...
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Created on 12 January 2016
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19.
Here's What It's Like To Be A 22-Year-Old With Cancer: BUST True Story
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(Living)
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... could cause Ulcerative Colitis; a medication that I had stopped taking about a year before my Colitis diagnosis. So basically, it was a very roundabout way to get clear skin...
Me and a therapy dog ...
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Created on 07 January 2016
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20.
Being A Girl: A Brief Personal History of Violence
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(Feminism)
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... breath slow. Like how they tell you that if you ever see a bear you shouldn’t run, you should just slowly back away until he can’t see you. I think that these men, like dogs, can smell my fear. 6. On ...
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Created on 11 December 2015
