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April 2013
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I have come to complain about one of your subjects who has been rude enough to...
– Marie Antoinette, informing Louis XVI of France that she was pregnant (via winds-and-waters)
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brian-my-left-testicle asked: Were Victorian women prone to fainting because the corsets were too tight and they couldn't breathe? Or was it an act to show that they were "high society" types?
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Diot Coke
historical-nonfiction:
In 2005, archivist George Redmonds discovered something surprising among English birth records of the 14th century: a girl named Diot Coke.
She was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1379. Researchers at Britain’s National Archives believe that her first name is a diminutive of Dionisia and her last name a variation of Cook.
March 2013
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