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At the chemist’s: recording of a 1930s conversation in England
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anothernewbbaccount
November 27, 2019, 5:43pm
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I
can’t, but
you
can be mistaken and
they
can be downright wrong. (Points to
Pedant Pendant
badge.)
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Frances Glessner Lee created miniature death scenes to train investigators in the 1940s
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