Frank Perse was rale sot be down to Dover. He was a good deal of a man f’r Dover an’ f’r Strafford County; indeed he done very well f’r th’ State o’ Noo Hampshire; but when ye come t’ spread him over t’ United States he was a l-e-e-tle thin.
After the Plague (aftertheplague.org)How do historical conditions influence our health? How does health change history? The After the Plague project investigates these questions by exploring health in later medieval England. It is centred on studying about 1000 medieval skeletons from the cemetery of the Hospital of St. John, Cambridge and from other medieval sites in Cambridge. The people we study date to between 1000 and 1500 CE.
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Franklin Pierce (allthetropes.org)Yet another (and arguably the most) largely forgettable 19th-century president. Known as “Handsome Frank.” The lesser-known of the two historical namesakes of Benjamin Franklin Pierce.