'i am the fiery life of divine substance'

- Mavis (from the book The Sorrows of Satan, 1895)

- Pamela (from the book The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, late 16th century, but popularized by the 1740 novel Pamela)

- Imogen (from Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline, c. 1611. possibly a typesetting error on the earlier name Innogen)

- Enola (from the book Enola, or Her Fatal Mistake, 1886)

- Vanessa (from the poem Cadenus and Vanessa, 1812)

- Cedric (from the book Ivanhoe, 1819. transposition of letters from the earlier Saxon name Cerdic)

- Dorian (from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891. similar masculine names had previously existed, like Dorus, Doros, and Dorios, but Wilde is believed to have coined this specific usage)

– Cora (from the book The Last of the Mohicans, 1826.)

– Lorna (from the book Lorna Doone, 1869.)

– Miranda (from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, c. 1610-11.)

Before that, he survived a murder attempt by Shelley Shannon in 1993.

And he was a little startled, "what?" I said, "oh that's midwifery." And within 5 minutes he had offered me a job. That's how we met.

I really, really liked him. And I felt really close to him and I did consider him a friend. And I miss him a lot. And there's sometimes I think, "oh God, I'd really like to call him and talk to him." Yeah, I miss him tremendously.

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

This is broadly about the clickbait titling convention of claiming a woman is unknown or forgotten when the person is going to read you a reasonably extensive Wiki page.

But, just because the information is new to you does not mean it is not already extensively documented. This is especially true if it's from a different geographic context than your own and you might not have learned in your pre-university history education.

also if anyone knows how to get un-ex-communicated quickly and easily please let me know. thanks in advance.

Also the bigger picture: that almost everyone they’ve identified has been from Erebus. Peglar is the FIRST positively ID’d Terror sailor. Dead facedown and alone, 130 km away from anything else, dressed in someone else's clothes and bearing a missive that says (amongst other things) "you are Peglar". Is it a reminder for a man losing his grip on himself? Or in fact a message from a captain to another camp, since that's found in the “Terror camp clear” roundel? Was he literally disguised? Did they all stop recognizing each other? Did it become unsafe to rank higher than a steward?

There are other notes in the papers in which Peglar seems to be writing about people around him in the present tense, but that's been a source of confusion, as he writes about thinking someone *might* be an officer, another has the "baring [sic] of a marine". With only 129 people to choose from and everyone uniformed, he should have known the rank of everyone around him.

These are the very creatively titled (/s) toasting forks and they look metal as hell for the purpose they serve

You might notice that the tips are bent upwards, which is actually not for inflicting more pain when tormenting the souls of the damned but rather because the bread goes on them like so

It is much much more difficult to preserve working class cultural artifacts anyway, bias aside.

There are a few museums who do try, but unfortunately there just isn't much left of original garments, especially anything older than a century. Poor people were not wasteful - a perfectly good piece of clothing is going to get worn until the fabric itself wears out, then you are going to take what's left and make child's clothes from it, and then cut it up and use it in a quilt or other small patches, and finally use the rags for cleaning until eventually it goes with the rag and bone man to become fertiliser.

So if you want original pieces to display, you are likely stuck with few good pieces outside of Lord Bimbleton's 5th favourite riding jacket that got put in the back of a closet and was forgotten about for a couple centuries because fashion moved on.

Some places are starting to make reconstructions based on what knowledge they can gather, but sometimes all that is is scraps from a grave to figure out the type of material used and wonky medieval paintings that don't show the full garment or seams, and... figuring it out the best you can.

There is surprisingly still a lot of research in this area - but that doesn't translate well into stuff that can be preserved, displayed and isn't the 100th Plain Linen Tunic your museum visitors are tired of seeing.

And if you want funding, you need visitors. So you bring out the fancy courtly gowns that wow, even if as a historian you're not super interested in them.

If we're talking 20th century and later, you have more surviving items, but less interest unless they belonged to someone famous or are otherwise Iconic enough. No one gives a shit about grandma's old fave jeans, so again, they stay back in the archives and her fave pop-singer's jacket from that one tour goes on display instead.

All of what is said above is true, which is why you so rarely see the casual day-to-day clothing of the working class in collections. What we do have a lot of, however, is uniform and event clothing. Things like scout/guide uniforms or military dress uniforms, which will have been necessitated by whichever organisation you were a part of, but not worn on a regular enough basis that you would have worn them out to the point of disrepair.

We also receive a lot of wedding dresses - many of which will have been worn by multiple generations of women, but even when you add it all together, this only constitutes a few hours of wear total. It's primarily through sentimentality that these pieces are lasting long enough to later be donated - the same concerns don't apply to your average everyday piece.