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Canada Bill: Confidence Artist - Chances are you even if you’ve heard of Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill, you haven’t heard of Canada Bill. He wasn’t famous like either of those Bills ... https://t.co/mKVrNGJDbl

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2022-02-05

Canada Bill: William Jones Confidence Artist - Chances are you even if you’ve heard of Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill, you haven’t heard of He wasn’t famous like either of those Bills ... https://t.co/mKVrNGJDbl

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2022-02-02

fabulous day or recording today! Thanks to Kristen McQuinn, Jane Hayter Hames and the wonderful - That’s Victorians and Housing, King’s John’s wives, Learning timo Love the French in the 19thC and the Fall of Charles I 🤗 coming soon on

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2022-01-19

*In the not-too-distant past furisode (振袖) indicated that a young woman was single and of marriageable age.

Interestingly it was only in the 19thC that furisode became gendered, and only in the 20thC that they (in part due to Western influence) were restricted to girls/women.

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2022-01-10

Tarring and Feathering Attacks in America - Although the phrase appears to have originated just prior to the American Revolution, the practice was much older having first happened in Europe. One of the ... https://t.co/390CHZZ4Ts

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2022-01-05

Tarring and Feathering Attacks in America - Although the phrase appears to have originated just prior to the American Revolution, the practice was much older having first happened in Europe. One of the ... https://t.co/26GA1C7qZh

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2022-01-04

This is John Calcott Horsley's amazing 1839 painting, The Pride Of the Village!!

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2021-12-28

Emerson made reflection the most important metaphor in 19thC American culture: in a republic, the government reflects the electorate.

Accordingly, Church, Gifford, and Watkins all made reflection metaphors primary in their work.

So too Wayne Thiebaud, over and over.

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2021-12-27

Victorians gave us the ritual of Xmas cards. Cheaper mass printing & stamps started the craze in the mid 19thc. Many assume their odd cards were based on morbidity, but scholars feel their idea of Xmas was also more secular, ironic & funny. The joke’s on us 😂

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2021-12-16

A Revolting and Horrible Affair: The West Twenty-Third Street Murder https://t.co/b43qeQ5p9T

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2021-12-09

My next book will be on ‘Victorian Sugar’ & how increased sugar intake in 19thC makes its way into the language, aesthetics,& metaphors that continue to shape our cultural discussions. So I’m totally fascinated by how that language/imagery gets fed back through the wombo ai😍🍭🍬

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2021-12-05

Laura Bell and Preacher of the 1800s - Laura Eliza Jane Seymour Bell was born in 1829, baptized on 18 October of that year, and moved with her family to Glenavy around 1835. She supposedly had ... https://t.co/GcAJOO6JdK

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2021-12-04

I actually don't have an unbridled hatred for this boy anymore; I just hate him as though he is my disappointment of a son. Numbuh 19th century redesign, along with giving him a name

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2021-12-02

I decided to read about the original "Snow White" tale, known in German as "Sneewittchen," 1st published by Bros in 1812. Through this I found Franz Jüttner's illustrations from a 1905 edition. Time to retell the story through an image thread (1/7)

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2021-11-25

Folio from a 19thC manuscript from Sri Lanka with a drawing of the 12 zodiac signs; the central portrait is probably that of the god/prince Rāma, conqueror of the demon Rāvaṇa who had kidnapped his wife Sītā on the island of Sri Lanka https://t.co/nOUMXiTXHO

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2021-11-19