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Pre-owned. In very good condition. Softcover. Published by The British Library 2016
Comic, Curious & Quirky News Stories From Centuries Past By Rona Levin
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The book reveals life’s (often avoidable) daily perils, such as the woman who poisoned her dinner guests, then herself died, having forgotten she’d used the same saucepan just days before to boil arsenic for the purpose of eradicating vermin (1830); and a drunken carter in charge of a ton of gunpowder on his horse-drawn cart, found careering through wet, slippery streets, while also carrying a number of ‘Lucifer’ matches
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