Category: research

[W]as employed against the Nez Percés in 1877

Before leaving the church, the soldiers set fire to the altar cloth. The Patriotes feared being roasted alive and so one by one had to flee.

The best way to drink hand sanitizer is straight, like whisky, and down it “like a shot,” explains Tyler, a Grade 10 student who lives in Toronto. Undiluted, the alcohol-based liquid tastes a little like “vodka and bug spray,” he adds.

A bag of wild ideas, worth future consideration, as passed along by @HumeSpeaks

Stolen from Dave, of @WritersPodcast/RTP fame.

Catch the Westbound: to die – Chuck a dummy: pretend to faint

Sometimes the poor could be persuaded to part with good teeth. In 1783, a dentist advertised in a New York newspaper, offering 2 guineas each for sound teeth. But people had to be desperate to sell their teeth. The dead did not need persuading. For the discerning patient, teeth from the battlefield were the best they could hope for. It was not always what they got. Many second-hand teeth came from mortuaries, the dissecting room and the gallows. The biggest purveyors of teeth were the “resurrectionists” who stole corpses to sell to medical schools. Teeth were one of the perks of the job. Even if they dug up a body too far gone for the anatomy classroom, they could still pocket a tidy sum by selling the teeth.

If the man was not interested in joining the regiment, the king resorted to forced recruitment and kidnapping — his agents kidnapped tall priests, monks, innkeepers, etc., from all over Europe. Once they even tried to abduct an Austrian diplomat. He even forced tall women to marry tall soldiers so they could breed more tall boys.

fodder

A locate event to partake in, as suggested by RHarron.

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From R. Harron

Via Rich the Time Traveler

As provided by @andrewfulton via @Inkybat

Suggested by @poorbrenton

Stolen from DBJ/@TheCharredTree

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