The Ingenues toured and performed in the 1920s and 30s across the US and internationally. Of all the vaudeville girl-bands from that era, they enjoyed the longest careers. They began in Ohio and then spread throughout the Midwest. In the 1930s the band was led by Louise Sorenson, a trumpet player who was so versatile, she also played every other ( Read more... )

Hello folks! I've posted here a few times about weird history stuff I've discovered in my life in Paris, most notably my post about the Café de L'Enfer, a Hell-themed café in Paris' red light district in the 19th century. It's great to know there are people out there who appreciate these kinds of things!

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I particularly love the guy on the surfboard.

When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony’s moral tone, the governor responded, “If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all.” Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few ( Read more... )

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The Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne - were born two months premature in a small farmhouse on May 28, 1934 near the French - Canadian village of Corbeil in northern Ontario. The family was not even aware that Elzire Dionne was pregnant with quintuplets. They were identical - created from a single egg.


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According to Owen Davies, author and professor of social history, a grimoire is a book that contains a "mix of spells, conjurations, natural secrets and ancient wisdom." " Their origins date back to the dawn of writing and their subsequent history is entwined with that of the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the development of science ( Read more... )

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