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 johnshaven rated 14 months ago- From the page: "
Robert Burns and the "Creepie Chair"
On this day in 1786, twenty-seven-year-old Robert Burns served the last of three public penances for "ante-nuptial fornication" with his eventual wife, Jean Armour. The "fornication police," as Burns call...
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- Freyr rated 5 months ago
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"On this day in 1810 Lord Byron swam the Hellespont. Byron was twenty-two, and not yet famous for his poetry or his profligacy -- though he had just ended an affair with a married woman who had moved Byron to fight a sunrise duel."
"All tragedies end with a death;
all comedies are finished with a marriage."
-- Lord Byron
- johnshaven rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "
Robert Burns and the "Creepie Chair"
On this day in 1786, twenty-seven-year-old Robert Burns served the last of three public penances for "ante-nuptial fornication" with his eventual wife, Jean Armour. The "fornication police," as Burns called them, allowed the poet to stand in his usual pew, rather than make him sit on the penitential stool -- or, again in Burns parlance, "the Creepie Chair.""
- mollywog rated 34 months ago
- Today in literature. Something different about books or an author every day!
- researchgirl rated 38 months ago
- Looks good... and I'm not only a fan, but also a subscriber!
- Entropy7 rated 45 months ago
- Decided to groove along with this as my homepage for a wee bit..I like
- nyckfull rated 24 months ago
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Wilde, Mother & Son
On this day in 1854 Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, and by all accounts, including Oscar's, cut from his mother's cloth: "How ridiculous of you to suppose that anyone, least of all my dear mother, would christen me 'plain Oscar'.... I started as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. All but two of the five names have already been thrown overboard. Soon I shall discard another and be known simply as 'The Wilde' or 'The Oscar.'
- desdemona rated 59 months ago
- Excellent site.
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