I’m sure most families have standard phrases they use with one another, inside jokes that others might not necessarily get. One of my family’s is from the 1968 musical version of Oliver Twist. There’s a scene, in Fagin’s lair, where… Read More
On Monday I blogged about debtors’ prisons, which people often confuse with poorhouses, the subject of today’s cheery blog. Debtors’ prisons and poorhouses were not the same thing, but were equally dismal places.
Poorhouses, or almshouses, existed in England from… Read More
The soft drink 7-Up was invented in1929, and was originally called “7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda.” The origin of the name is unknown, but the soda did contain seven ingredients-- including lithium, which is a mood stabilizing drug. The soda became wildly popular after the Wall Street Crash.
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