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Marina Amaral

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22 Jun

Colorized by me: Captain Robert Falcon Scott and other expedition members at camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, April 1911. They have just returned from the Southern Party's exploratory expedition.

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913.

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Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition from 1901 to 1904, and wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole.

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Marina Amaral

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21 Jun

Annette Kellermann, born in 1886 in Sydney, was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer. She was one of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, instead of the then-accepted pantaloons, and inspired others to follow her example.

From marathon swimming she went on to play packed houses with her unique vaudeville show in London and later NY. She became acquainted with controversy when the one-piece bathing costume she developed caused a stir during her performance for royalty. shrtm.nu/A1HD

Kellermann appeared in several movies, usually with aquatic themes, and as the star of A Daughter of the Gods was the first major actress to appear nude in a Hollywood production. Kellermann was an advocate of health, fitness, and natural beauty throughout her life.

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Marina Amaral

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15 Jun

#OnThisDay in 1648, Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Jones was a midwife and practiced medicine. Some of what caused her to be accused of witchcraft had to do with these practices.

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The evidence against her was:

1. "That she was found to have such a malignant touch, as many persons, men, women, and children, whom she stroked or touched with any affection or displeasure, were taken with deafness, or vomiting, or other violent pains or sickness."

2. "She practising physic, and her medicines being such things as, by her own confession, were harmless, — as anise-seed, liquors, etc., — yet had extraordinary violent effects."

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Marina Amaral

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14 Jun

Between 1630 to 1655 in Italy, Giulia Tofana became famous for selling poison to women, mostly from the poor and working class, who wanted to murder their abusive and violent husbands. She and the members of her underground network were the facilitators of over 600 deaths.

Made of a mixture of lead, arsenic, and belladonna, Aqua Tofana contained some of the same ingredients as normal cosmetics at the time, which helped it to blend in on a woman's nightstand or vanity.

Husbands were none the wiser that their wife's beauty regimen was their death warrant. The poison, and the method of administering it, meant that doctors and investigators believed the death had been caused by some unknown illness or disease. tinyurl.com/aunzxy6f

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