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May 19, 2009 13:52

I do actually love John Aubrey, the biographer. His Brief Lives included things like:

PETRIFICATION of a Kidney.- When Father Harcourt suffered at Tyburne, and his bowells, etc, throwne into the fire, a butcher's boy standing by was resolved to havea piece of his Kidney which was broyling in the fire. He burn't his fingers much ( Read more... )

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proskynesis May 19 2009, 12:55:08 UTC
THE LAST ONE. WHAT!? O_O

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me_ves_y_sufres May 19 2009, 15:38:30 UTC
I KNOW.

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