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"Ruined family and so forth."
From the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier; Bangor, Maine; July 18, 1843.
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July 2010
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I like your beard.
Thomas Sanders, an early partner in and first treasurer of the Bell Telephone Company, in 1878. (via)
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The Dancing Plague of 1518.
In July of 1518, a woman referred to as Frau Troffea stepped into a narrow street in Strasbourg, France and began a fervent dancing vigil that lasted between four and six days. By the end of the week, 34 others had joined her and, within a month, the crowd of dancing, hopping and leaping individuals had swelled to 400. Authorities prescribed “more dancing” to cure the tormented...
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June 2010
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It seems, according to our old pal Orson Squire Fowler, that it’s not only women who despise the unmarried: Celibacy is virtual self-emasculation. It destroys gender, either by inertia, if Amativeness remains inactive, or else by sensualizing it, if it is exercised. Every man unmarried at twenty-five who does exercise it is a libertine, but who does not is a virtual eunuch. Writhe under...
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"Cocaine, when applied to the mucous membrane of...
From the New York Times; July 31, 1885.
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