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While young ladies may have been daydreaming of handsome film stars such as Cary Grant, pictured here kissing the cheek of Ingrid Bergman in a publicity still for the 1946 film ‘Notorious’, agony aunts were keen to bring them back down to earth. (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A view of a calander showing the date, Friday the 13th. (Photo by William C. Shrout/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A 19th-century cricket match at the Kennington Oval. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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A man sneezes into a handkerchief, c1936. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

General History

6 facts about the history of hay fever

A woodcut print depicting the stocks, a form of Elizabethan punishment. Dated 16th century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

"Damn your blood": Swearing in early modern English

Michael Fish makes his first televised weather forecast in 1974. (Photo by Press Association)

Victorian

4 facts about the history of the weather forecast

Chastity belt decorated with a flower design and a heart pierced with arrows. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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Bearded Victorian man. (Photo by Getty Images)

Victorian

A brief history of beards

Victorian

11 shocking moments in history

Old Wardour Castle

Medieval

Britain’s 7 most amazing ruins

Victorian

Q&A: Samuel Morse invented the Morse code, but how did he do it, how long did it take, and how long before it was accepted?

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Pathologist Thomas Harvey holds the brain of Albert Einstein in a jar, Kansas, 1994. Harvey, the on-duty pathologist during the eminent physicist's autopsy, removed Einstein’s brain and kept most of it stored in two glass jars, refrigerated inside a beer cooler, for more than 20 years. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

20th Century

Q&AWhat happened to Einstein's brain?

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c1930: a man wrestles his tamed bear. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) 

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A compilation of compass drawn circles, and variants found in many of the churches

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A portrait of Catherine of Siena, who in the 1360s experienced a vision from God during which – according to her biographer, Raymond of Capua – she drank the water from the wound in Christ’s side. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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General History

10 weird things that have happened in November

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Veteran cars – a 1898 Benz and an early Panhard – outside Glover Brothers Cycle Makers, c1900. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A typewriter. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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An illustration of the novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ by HG Wells, made by Henri Lanos, 1905. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

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Charles Darwin sports his trademark bushy beard in 1877. (Photo by Corbis Historical/Getty Images)

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