On the Patronus:

"It’s quite unusual for it to be the caster’s favourite animal, but very possible that it will take the shape of a creature they’ve never before seen or heard of."

What A Patronus Says About a Witch or Wizard?

  

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MJ about made me cry with this one!
Thread Log | Help Anne Blame the DJ

The first electric lights on a Christmas tree date back to 1882--but it still would have been expensive and inaccessible to most people.

  

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set by Bee! <3

Fabric merchants would mark flaws in woven cloth by leaving small strings to the bottom of the bolts at the locations where flaws were present, its the origin of the term “no strings attached” to indicate that something is without flaw.

  

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Mercedes Benz has been around since 1885, putting out and patenting what is regarded as one of the first automobiles in 1886. They became the first commercially available automobile in 1888!

I need a muggle-obsessed character to get their hands on one asap XD

  

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Mercedes Benz has been around since 1885, putting out and patenting what is regarded as one of the first automobiles in 1886. They became the first commercially available automobile in 1888!

I need a muggle-obsessed character to get their hands on one asap XD

Melody Stanwell your time to shine xD

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In the 19th century houses that back onto each others gardens (places like penny worth and bartonburg) were 21 feet apart as a minimum in order to protect women’s modesty. Two men measured the distance by standing face to face and walking away from each other until they couldn’t see each others nipples.. It was codified as law in 1902 and remains the same to this day

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Early telephones were so cumbersome and bulky that they needed purpose-made furniture to hold them, one of which was the gossip bench, which merged a shelf and chair together into one for a convenient place to sit while talking on the phone.

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The term boycott originated in 1880, when the land agent Captain Charles Boycott. After attempting to raise rents and evict tenants on behalf of an English land owner in Mayo, Ireland, the entire community decided to ignore him. His workers stopped work in the fields and stables, as well as in his house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and the local postman refused to deliver mail.

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The Eiffel Tower is known nowadays to be a dark brown (multiple different shades, in fact!) however it didn't start out that way! In 1887/88, Venetian Red was applied to the structure in the workshop pre-assembly. 1889 saw a darker red applied, which stayed until 1892 when it got painted an ochre brown. In 1899, 5 different shades were applied from the base (yellow-orange) to the top (light yellow).

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The Eiffel Tower was only meant to be a temporary exhibit for the World's Fair in 1889 for 20 years. 1898 saw Eiffel attempt to find a justification to keep it. He offered it up to two engineers to experiment with wireless transmissions. While not enough to save it, in 1904 it was equipped with an antennae that allowed communication between the French Army and their defense posts almost 300 miles away. 1909 saw the Eiffel Tower's lease renewed for 70 more years wherein it ushered the Age of the Radio and aided in two World Wars which solidified it in the French Identity.

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Many artists absolutely despised the Eiffel Tower when it was first built including Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas Jr. (son of the famous Alexandre Dumas, author of the Three Musketeers). Political cartoons were made of Gustave Eiffel as well as lengthy denouncements in papers from Paul Verlaine who called it a "belfry skeleton", François Coppée who said it was a "mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed", Guy de Maupassant who went onto write "this high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant ungainly skeleton upon a base that looks built to carry a colossal monument of Cyclops, but which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney." and Joris-Karl Huysmans who stated it resembled "a hole-riddled suppository".

Sources: This YouTube video that I got sucked into this morning and the Eiffel Tower Website xD

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After the birth of her third child in 1867, Queen Alexandra developed a severe case of rheumatic fever that left her with a stiff knee and a pronounced limp, and she sometimes used mobility aids such as walking sticks to get around. It was far from a style choice, but high-society ladies were so eager to imitate her that they even adopted her gait in a trend known as the “Alexandra limp.”

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Set by the lovely Lady<3

"By the 1890s it was believed that Scheele’s green [dye] was responsible for illnesses that those exposed experienced. Symptoms ranged from scabs forming on the skin of those wearing it, hair loss, vomiting, and in extreme cases the kidneys shutting down, leading to death. "

Quote from: Green with Envy: Colors in the Victorian Era

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Thank you Bee <3 Your magic has made Sisse bloom

LOL WRONG THREAD

  

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Oldie but fun article about Victorian makeup trends
https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/arti...ns-make-up

From the 17th-century French court to the Victorian times, beauty was measured by paleness which led to a rise in women drawing on their veins with blue paste. Women took to extreme measures to achieve this pallid look, painting their faces with lead-based foundations and powders and even consuming arsenic to lighten their complexions. For those people whose veins didn’t stand out naturally – or were too caked in make-up to be seen – veins could be applied using a blue paste made from a mixture of calcium carbonate, gum arabic and Prussian blue. The practice of vein colouring faded in the early 20th century, as trends shifted and rich people began to indicate their status through the tanned skin of endless leisure activities and sunny holidays.

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stefanie made this beautiful set <3

Gibraltar was made a city by Queen Victoria in 1842, and subsequently forgotten. Its status wasn't officially confirmed until 2022.

  

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Not a traditional did you know, buuuut:

Did you know This is what London looks like for our darlings?

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Thank you Bee <3 Your magic has made Sisse bloom

Victorian England had special teacups for men with mustaches.

The cup featured a traditional shape, with an added built-in ceramic ledge for men to rest their mustaches against, as well as a tiny hole for liquid to pass through. Effectively, it was an adult sippy cup.

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