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81The Wonderful Camera Obscura
Come sightseeing at the Victorian seaside - and spy on your friends getting ice cream across the way, too. A look at the camera obscura, a huge pinhole camera that you can stand inside to see a panoramic image of the outside.
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79Egg Creams and Candy Stores
Come visit an old fashioned candy store for a soda and a paper - or perhaps you'd prefer the latest Archie comic. Candy stores were the Seven Elevens of old New York - only a lot more atmospheric. And Seven Elevens don't serve the delicious ambrosia known as an egg cream.
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75The Liquid Pearl
Back in the Victorian era, face paint really WAS paint - or arsenic, or lead. Face enameling was expensive (and dangerous) - either at the chiropodist's (!) - or at home with some DIY Liquid Pearl.
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75The Joys of Peppermint
I never realized how much I like peppermint before I wrote this - or how many times a day I use tings with peppermint oil in them. Peppermint tea is one of my favorite after dinner drinks, though. And on special occasions - which are always more...
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73Toothpaste To Go, 1890
I love looking through old magazines and books. You really find the most extraordinary things, recipes and weird products and odd customs and ideas. My favorite era is the VIctorian period, though if you read my retro blog you'll know that I love...
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72The Great 1910 Candy Breakfast
Permission to eat candy for breakfast from a professor old enough to be your great great grandfather!
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71What Mr. Darcy Would Never Do
I am sure that dear Mr. Darcy would never do this. No, no. Jane Austen would faint if it was even rumored to be true. But a lot of Regency era gentlemen did - and knowing Miss Austen, I cannot help thinking that she would have been aware of this...
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71The Line of Yeast Resistance
A new crop of pimples was always taking the joy out of things! Doesn't matter whether you're a cartoon or a photograph guy, does it? Pimples are everywhere . And they do always take the joy out of things. Yes, Ted (for that is his name) - we...
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70Dr. Trask's Magnetic Ointment
Over on my history blog I've written about several Victorian cures which featured adjectives like magnetic or electric: there were chains, teething necklaces, oils, soaps, brushes and therapeutic belts and corsets - just to name a few (I know that...
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70Frozen In Florida
Are you having a bunch of physicists over for dinner? And are you looking for the perfect scientifically-minded dessert to serve them? Something that will have them chatting excitedly about molecules and heat and cold and - well, you know, that sort...
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