Bad Whiskey and Cross Women
“Matrimonial miseries, domestic unhappiness, social wretchedness, and national degradation; every evil under the sun will be found, if you go sufficiently far back, to...
“An Orgy of Candy Gluttony”
A Cup of Chocolate (1844), by Charles Beranger
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At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a...
Firefly Diamonds
Illuminated copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Wikimedia Commons.
The traveling bug lover, in the earliest days of insect study, brought back from foreign...