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RE: *Googles in Charming* - Valerian Macnair - April 4, 2021

"what does it feel like to get shot" and "what do bullets feel like"

and this is where i admit that i have no idea how to hold a gun or shoot a gun, nor do i know anything about them other than you pull a trigger and they go pew pew.


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Noble Greengrass - April 15, 2021

grain of salt etymology


RE: *Googles in Charming* - George Robins - April 19, 2021

How was coffee made in the 1890s. found this super helpful article!


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Tycho Dodonus - April 23, 2021

eyeliner in the victorian era


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Rowan Yaxley - April 28, 2021

Pearls and their value in the Victorian Era, which led me down a mini-rabbit hole of some really fascinating articles about Victorian jewelry and its significance!

The Romantic Period (1837-1860)

The Grand Period (1861-1885)

Late Victorian Aesthetic Period (1885-1901)


Also:
THE VICTORIAN ERA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON JEWELRY


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Clifford Goyle - May 3, 2021

Calamari (aka squid as an ingredient for food) wasn't referenced in English writing until 1826 and it was called calamara. Calamari and six other spellings wouldn't appear until the mid-1900s. (thanks, OED!)


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Zaid Ragge - May 3, 2021

"flower pickup lines" for this zaid thread title. So many great ones out there xD


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Arthur Pettigrew - May 9, 2021

Beanie: ugh all I wanted was the victorian phrase for gambling addiction
Beanie: and somehow I've gone down a useless rabbit hole that has taken me to a jstor article titled "The Victorian Discourse of Gambling: Speculations on Middlemarch and the Duke's Children"


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Barnaby Wye - May 16, 2021

currently on the wikipedia page for (the history of the) tomato


RE: *Googles in Charming* - Fortitude Greengrass - December 23, 2022

Me yesterday skimming through title lines for Romantic poems looking for one about the horrors of fading into anonymity —

but one that Ford would like, so not Ozymandias

had a hunch Keats might have one and he did! Thank you literature degree!