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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading
America Comes Alive – “Kilroy Was Here”: A Story From WWII
Amusing Planet – When Little Boys Wore Dresses
Atlas Obscura – For Centuries, People Celebrated a Little Boy’s First Pair of Trousers
Atlas Obscura – Why the King Owns All the Swans in England
Dando-Collins, Stephen – The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City (2010)
Delamere Manor – The Five Most Expensive Weddings of All Time
Esquire – Why Not Eat a (Black) Swan on Oscar Night?
Eyewitness to History – The Flagellants Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349
Fashion History Museum – Sole Discretion
Forrest, William George Grieve – A History of Sparta, 950-192 BC (1963)
Gardner, Martin – Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957)
Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct., 1932) – Cremation and Burial in the Roman Empire
History Collection – 20 Biblical Traditions Heavily Influenced by Other Ancient Cultures
Hopkins, Keith, and Beard, Mary – The Colosseum (2005)
Insider, May 14th, 2014 – How Bad Medical Advice Helped Make Beards Trendy
JSTOR Daily, September 13th, 2017 – When Societies Put Animals on Trial
Live Science – How “Kilroy Was Here” Changed the World
Mental Floss – The Fart Jars of 17th-Century Europe
Moss, Candida – The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom (2013)
NPR – The Forgotten History of Fat Men’s Clubs
ThoughtCo. – The Story Behind the Phrase ‘Kilroy Was Here’
Withey, Dr. Alun – The Medical Case for Beards in the 19th Century