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This is a fun little book, something I bought (twice) because I liked the author’s YouTube content. It’s brief stories about (usually) under-recognized historic figures. Today was James Chuma and Abdullah David Susi who ensured David Livingstone’s discoveries in Africa weren’t lost, and Black Agnes who successfully and stylishly defended her Scottish castle from English invaders.
— Mar 03, 2026 09:34PM
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Updated just before reading this line: “Sabrina Sidney is the subject of one of the strangest experiments in pedagogical history. Wax is dripped onto her bare skin, guns are pointed at her, and she’s made to throw perfectly good clothes on the fire, all to see if it is possible to mould someone into the perfect wife. And it’s done without anyone telling her what it’s for or even that she’s being tested.”
— 15 hours, 54 min ago
