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I love this scene. It’s so cute and romantic. And, for all those Medieval scholars out there, this scene reminds me of a posy that was often engraved inside Medieval marriage rings: Many are thee starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.This isn’t the first time Astarion has…

I love the stuff one can find when researching in old newspapers. I also love that humans have been fascinated by cats and dogs cuddling for centuries. This would have been on I Can Has Cheezburger if it took place today.

It’s Halloween. And when many people think Halloween, they think Salem, Massachusetts. Because it’s basically our Mardi Gras. Want to know practically everything there is to know about Salem? From witches to how a Salem boy became a Chinese god, to where the Murder of the Century occurred, and including…

LIFE magazine August 17 1953 page 116

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From Hardwood Floors News This is a NASA map of the Tree Canopy of the United States. It took six years to create, and lead to the determination that about one third of the US is currently forested. First thing that struck me – Wisconsin. Only the far northern part,…

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Look! It’s a piece of coffee history, one of my favorite kinds of history. And the honor of possessing the first coffee & chocolate license in Massachusetts – possibly in the colonies – goes to a woman:  Dorothy Jones in 1670. Yay for enterprising colonial women who know the value…

Chinese urinal 1830-1850 Container; Medical ceramic: hard paste porcelain, underglaze cobalt enamel, overglaze black enamel, iron slip Historical Deerfield