And the instant I read this I received an ad email
Ain’t life wonderful?
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Last week my YouTube suggestions included a link regarding a subject that I just mentioned in passing to my wife and which she did not pass on in any form.
They are watching and listening to everything. 
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“Writers” is royal navy terminology for administrators, and Spring Gardens is a street in London that’s right next to Admiralty Arch, so it looks like the letter-writer was asking how to get a career in admin for the Navy.
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Thanks for the explanation. A lot of the questions from the teenage readers seem to be about future careers, and the military or the colonial administration feature prominently.
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Prussian blue = potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate Fe₄³⁺[Fe²⁺(CN)₆]₃
It’s a cyanide salt DO NOT LICK THE PAINT.
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Prussian blue is non-toxic.
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You can lick it for medical reasons:
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Ugh
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Mar 13, 1886
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wow.
timely posting of that Victorian advice.
oh, incurable, are you?
Seek ye a charitable house, as your co-pay has yet to be met, and treatment cannot be accessed at this time.
incurable, indeed.
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At least there were strong charities that considered it their Christian duty to care for people. Apart from some of the elite doctors to the upper classes, no one was getting rich or expected to.
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Some things never change.
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“Rules are there for a reason, young malapert.”
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Not true!
Apply solid gold to me and I will feel much better.
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