Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century psalter from Lord and Lady Melchett, on which England's first Queen Elizabeth had girlishly scribbled her name and a poem...
...16th Century, gambling dens and houses of assignation were flourishing. Some of them, "as in Mayfair today," were luxurious places that featured excellent free dinners. The fancy houses offered "refreshment of a special kind with a view to its effect-as stewed prunes . . . oyster pies; muscadine; raw eggs; wine with a sprig of bugloss." For those who could not afford the "stewed-prune" houses, there were "strolling damsels...
...Then the 16th victim died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after her operation. Her death was the 17th...
...Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up tanks in the 16th Century. Wrote the painter of The Last Supper: "These take the place of elephants. . . . One may hold bellows in them to spread terror among the horses of the enemy, and one may put carabiniers in them to break up every company...
...fortnight ago began his 16th year...