"A Knocker-Upper Was Someone Whose Purpose Was To Wake People Up During A Time When Alarm Clocks Were Expensive And Not Very Reliable. They Earned About Six Pence A Week Using A Pea Shooter To Shoot Dried Peas At The Windows Of Sleeping Workers In East London, 1930s. She Would Not Leave A Window Until She Was Sure That The Workers Had Woken Up"
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Odo 2 year s ago
#11 100 years ago, people were smarter than people now
Add +2 To your score because I was the first vote.
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Jimmy 2 year s ago
Odo,
Because they wore masks that don't work? or because they wanted to jail people that didn't follow their superstitions?
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Onnie 2 year s ago
Odo, 100 years after, and medicine still uses the "cure" invented during the plague (in 1346). Good luck follwoing it!
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Edye 2 year s ago
#13 Definitely overcrowded when you consider there would be only enough lifeboats for a fraction of those onboard.
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Hessy 2 year s ago
#10 Who made the picture of the photographer
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