Susanna Salter Was Added to the Ballot as a Joke, But Won Two-Thirds of the Vote
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10 Things You Must Know about the Extraordinary George Sand
George Sand has been described as a “cigar-toting sexual outlaw”. A French writer who wrote…
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10 of Mark Twain’s Sickest Burns
Here are Mark Twain's sickest burns. Illustrated Let's just get to it, shall we? 1.…
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How the Secret “Lady Lovers” Network Gave Black LGBTQ Women Freedom to Love
In 1920, a newspaper reported a salacious story with the headline “Have we a New…
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Cockaigne, the ‘peasant’s heaven’ where nuns are naked, the sky rains cheese, and wine flows in rivers
What is Cockaigne? We all know that to get in the Christian heaven you have…
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This teacher’s story of compassion has a twist that will leave you touched
The exact details of what happened to Laurence C. Jones one day in 1917, are…
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