"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.

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grain of salt etymology

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   Fortitude Greengrass

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

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   Reuben Crouch

eyeliner in the victorian era

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   Fortitude Greengrass

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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

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   Beth Vane

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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!)

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   Benedict Sterling

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

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   Amelia Evans

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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"

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

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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!

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