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What happend here then?

Vandals? Misogynists?

Suggestions anyone?

 

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It’s never good to begin a story at the end but be warned Bessie Colman died because she was short which is terrible . . .

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Hildegard was also known as Sibyl of the Rhine which makes her sound like a landlady in a slight Fawlty Germanic boarding house

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. . . Life in Paris was full of creativity and critique . . .

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Edward was only eight and Mary was three so even the chances of them playing nicely together . . .

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. . . whose kindness to his patients allegedly led him to take laudanum and whiskey . . .

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 and forget about Æthelflæd who was a great English warrior queen leading her chaps into battle and trying to get rid of the dastardly Danes. . .

 

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After husband Henry sipped his final pint and headed for the great snug in the sky, the newly widowed Hester fell in love

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. . .  rises above the bad manners of her cousins and does what she was born to do – marry a  . . .

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. . . also spawned the song ‘Jingle Bells’, the worlds first ‘practical four wheeled roller skate’ (I do so loathe an impractical roller skate) and the scandal of t

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Cicely wanted to do her bit. She joined the

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. . . beheaded which is the sort of dysfunctional family event that any therapist would have a field day with.

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 involving, as it does, death, alcohol and an explosion. 

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At this point one of two things happened – 

The crowd tied her feet to the horse’s tail, and stoned her to death.
 or
She was banished to a convent where her son grew up to follow in the family business and become a bishop. 

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“I arrived in the main courtyard of the prison to find the noble company of martyrs marching round it and singing lustily . . .  beat time in almost Bacchic frenzy with a toothbrush.”

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 . . . which suggest a pleasing medieval disinterest in identity theft.

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1. Be nice to others
2. Don’t go on overnight automobile trips with a

4. Remember - a woman is ready to meet most emergencies if

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