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Being quiet and demure was actively rejected in favor of maximum auditory annoyance. Young fashionable women deliberately wore heavy rubber overshoes…
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Parliament had to soak their curtains in chloride of lime in 1858 just to survive a crisis known as the Great Stink, which happened when human waste in the…
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At an age when most people are still figuring out how basic tax forms work, Pitt was handed control of the entire British government. At just twenty-four, he…
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Because nothing commands respect quite like being named after pasta. Young European men returning from overseas tours adopted outrageously extravagant…
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Irony does not translate well to historical records. An anti-fascist Swedish politician submitted Hitler's name to the Nobel committee purely as a satirical…
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