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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… in which a glass plate or globe was rubbed against wire brushes. It could then be conducted through metals or the human body. As the charge passed from body to body, participants experienced peculiar sensations. They felt shocks or saw sparks fly as they approached or touched one …
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London theatres (and their audiences) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… this time, tell certainly which was the Wild Gallant. The King did not seem pleased at all, all the whole play, nor any body else, though Mr. Clerke whom we met here did commend it to us’ 1 Indeed, the London theatre was not merely a place …
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Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713) [ Practices ]
… ones of play, drink, and vicious amours; whereby the nobility and gentry of both sexes are entirely corrupted both in body and mind, and have lost all notions of love, honour, friendship, generosity; which, under the name of fopperies, …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… was widely celebrated, perhaps nowhere better than in the playwright Arthur Murphy’s witty observation that in Britain’s body politic, there were four estates: ‘King, Lords, Commons, and Drury Lane playhouse.’ 32 32 . Arthur Murphy, The Life …
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