Deadly Victorian Fashion

How far are you willing to go for fashion?  Throughout history, women have been willing to go to incredible lengths in order to be at the height of fashion.  Queen Elizabeth used lead-based make up, a common practice with aristocratic women, a practice that often led to lead poisoning.  In the Victorian period, women wore dresses dyed green with arsenic - fully knowing that they were endangering their lives.

The attached article explains even more ways that Victorian people wore dangerous clothing.  Make sure to watch the video!

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/deadly-victorian-fashions/

D-Day Then & Now: 70th Anniversary

Seventy years ago the Allied Forces under the command of Dwight D. Eisenhower landed on Normandy Beaches, marking the beginning of the end of World War II.  It is easy to focus on the heroism of the troops and the ultimate victory while forgetting the horrors of the suffering and the destruction of war.  The Huffington Post put together a collection of images that counterpose modern-day scenes on photos of the invasion of Normandy Beaches on D-Day.  The startling contrast of the two scenes is a stark reminder that the freedom and leisure that we celebrate came at a cost.

D-Day Landing Sights Then and Now: 11 Striking Images that Bring the Past and Present Together

Vampires in Poland?

Yes, Early Modern Europeans truly believed in vampires...

"Vampire" Burial in Poland keeps alive the myth that will not die