On this day, the second battle of the Spice Wars was fought. We also remember the soap factory accident, and the birthday of Ellen Harriet Walking. It is the Feast Day of the Madonna of the Leaves, and in the garden relax and enjoy.
Be Safe, and Stay Out of Trouble.
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As enthusiasts of mid-Victorian melodrama will recall, the Soap Factory Disaster forms a climactic moment in de Severall’s “Alfredina, or, The Mistaken Omelet”, when the beggar boy ‘Nubbins’ has the grime providentially washed from his face, revealing the birthmark that identifies him as the long-lost heir to the Duke of Knurle…
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