February 2012
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Perez Hamilton: Dutch Have Officially Stolen New... →
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Sayonara, British suckers!!!
After just one day of demanding the Brits surrender New York City, the Dutch have successfully taken back the capitol of the colony under the direction of Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Younger. We hear they have plans to rename the land “New Orange.”
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Boys and Breeches
historical-nonfiction:
In Elizabethan England, a little boy was dressed in skirts, pretty much like his sister. When he was between 3 and 7, depending on his parents’ and nurse’s assessment, he got his first pair of breeches or breech hose.
This event, called breeching, was celebrated with a party. The boy was then said to have been breeched. Before this he was just “an unbreeched boy.”
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Perez Hamilton: New Netherland Woman Accuses... →
perezhamilton:
Gossip, scandal AND beavers?!?? LOVES it!
Grietje Pieters went over to her neighbor Lysbet Ackermans’ house to have a beer. Soon after the hangout, Lysbet accused Grietje of stealing her beaver from her home. Grietje was so angry about the accusation that she sued Lysbet for slander. Lysbet
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“Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?”
– Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (via bookmania)
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Perez Hamilton: Robert de La Salle Tries to Find... →
perezhamilton:
That sounds cool! We never knew China was so close!!
French explorer Robert de La Salle has arrived in America for an exciting adventure. He believes the Mississippi River will flow into the Gulf of California and from there he will discover a western route to China. He’s trying to…
lolz i <3 perez hamilton!
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