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Victorian

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Dec 21, 2025
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Which specific Christmas customs (tree, mistletoe, wassail) can be reliably traced to pre-Christian sources?

Which Christmas customs can be reliably traced back before Christianity depends on how strict “pre‑Christian” is defined: the evidence that wassail (the custom and word) grows directly from Anglo‑Saxo...

Jan 14, 2026
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what words by shakespeare do we still use today

Shakespeare's texts supply the first recorded use of many English words and helped normalize countless phrases that remain in everyday speech; scholars estimate he introduced or popularized roughly 1,...

Jan 3, 2026

Why are the dried corpses of stingrays called Jenny hanivers

Jenny hanivers are altered, dried carcasses of rays, skates or related guitarfish—cut, folded and desiccated into grotesque, often humanoid or draconic curiosities—and were produced and sold by seafar...