On Monday’s blog, I talked about how Elizabethans smeared lead-based makeup on their faces. If you think that’s skeevy, how about bird poop?
Prior to the mid-19th century, Japanese geisha achieved a porcelain-white skin with the time-honored combination of lead… Read More
In Louisiana in the mid 1800s, French was the most commonly-spoken language. Banks there issued ten-dollar notes marked with ‘DIX,” which is French for 'ten.' The note became known as a “dixie,” and the name stuck as a term for the South.