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TheVulgarTongue Bot ,
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GUT SCRAPER, or TORMENTOR of CATGUT. A fiddler.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Events for 05/05 from Wikipedia:

• 1494: On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
• Birth (1942) of Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Wynette
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    "Die Historikerin Andrea Löw hat erschütternde Dokumente deportierter deutscher und österreichischer Juden zusammengestellt. Die Schriften vermitteln einen Eindruck von der unfassbaren Entfremdung und Erniedrigung im Holocaust", schreibt Konstantin Sakkas heute im Tagesspiegel:


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    https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/meine-arme-mutter-ist-bereits-gestorben-briefe-und-aufzeichnungen-vom-grauen-der-judenvernichtung-11597516.html

    TheVulgarTongue Bot ,
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    TUP RUNNING. A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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  • lydialurch ,
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons Why settle for an ordinary dull wake when your mourners could be chasing a greased up ram?

    504DR ,
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    It isn't human entertainment if animals aren't terrorized, tortured and killed.
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    SallyStrange ,
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    Getting a full discussion of colonialism on Jamaican morning TV. (Starts about minute 7)

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    https://youtu.be/SaqPLlCJ_Xk?si=ybTa94J9yt4yVwuz

    Tinido ,
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    I love Anthony Grafton for his love for the epistemologically & morally grey figures and areas between & & that emerge when the new gets to be born. Here he talks very accessibly about his new book about such a seminal figure in : the Magus. (With expert slurs to modern .) @histodons https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-magus-enlightened-magician-or-renaissance-charlatan/id256580326?i=1000653614822

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    The 4th of May is the feast day of Saint Florian, Patron Saint of . Celebrated as International Firefighters Day, we remember and honour fallen firefighters. Let's also explore the of firefighting in , and look at who St. was: https://coinofnote.com/st-florian-medallion/

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    TheVulgarTongue Bot ,
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    CHUNK. Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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    Events for 05/04 from Wikipedia:

    • 1493: Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI
    • Birth (1936) of El Cordobés, Spanish bullfighter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cordob%C3%A9s
    • Death (1483) of George Neville, Duke of Bedford (b. 1457) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Neville,_Duke_of_Bedford
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    paninid ,
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    Hi, it’s me, I’m the problem, I know

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    WhiteCatTamer ,
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    @paninid @histodons “Did you know that Romans used a sponge on a stick after pooping?”
    “…and what will the lady be having this evening?”
    “The check.”
    “You haven’t ordered anything…?”

    PMKeeling ,
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    Who's the youngest person to have ever voted in a UK election? Eighteen years-old? Sixteen? How about two?

    My article on child voters is free to read for a week on History Today.

    https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/child-voters

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    TheVulgarTongue Bot ,
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    TO COAX. To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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    TITTER TATTER. One reeling, and ready to fall at the least touch; also the childish amusement of riding upon the two ends of a plank, poised upon the prop underneath its centre, called also see-saw. Perhaps tatter is a rustic pronunciation of totter.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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  • taoish ,
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    Early medievalists: does anyone by chance have a copy of Frank Carey's typewritten list of MSS from St. Germain d'Auxerre? I've seen a dozen footnotes citing it but only as a photocopy at IRHT in France or the Vatican Library
    -- Catal. I. 26.9 (int 22).

    "MSS from the Scriptorium of Saint-Germain d 'Auxerre" (1956) 5pp

    WorldCat doesn't know it. Not in IA or Google Books. Thanks!

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