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Showing posts with label Victorians. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Victorians. Show all posts

Sunday, October 8, 2017

9 strange facts about the history of apples

History Extra 1) The apple originated in the so called 'fruit forest' of Eastern Europe The fruit would have been smaller and ...

Sunday, September 4, 2016

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of London

History Extra Between 1613 and 1754, a legal loophole meant that on-the-spot marriages could be carried out in an area surrounding th...

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Pig-chickens, beavers’ tails and turtle soup: 8 weird foods through history

History Extra A Plantagenet king of England dining. (Credit: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images) From the ...

Thursday, May 19, 2016

9 of history's best quotes

History Extra Queen Victoria, who reportedly said "We are not amused". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Neil Armst...

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