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Here are some of my trips down the rabbit hole of historical research!
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Historical Tidbits: Dognapping and Medical Research
Daily Diary, May 3, 2023 Day 974: The general histories about the theft of dogs for medical research tend to indicate this was a twentieth century…
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Historical Tidbits: Dognapping
Daily Diary, April 19, 2023 Day 960: When I first started to see what I could find on the subject of people stealing dogs for profit, it looked like…
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Historical Tidbits: San Francisco Parks
Daily Diary, April 17, 2023 Day 958: Having decided that San Francisco parks would play a role in my upcoming short story, Dandy and the Dognappers, I…
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Historical Tidbits: St. Patrick's Day Parade
Daily Diary, March 17, 2023 Day 927: St. Patrick’s Day was an important day of celebration for the Irish in San Francisco as early as 1851, and the…
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Historical Tidbits: Halloween
Daily Diary, October 14, 2022, Day 773: “The feast of All Saints, which was ushered in Friday evening by the old-fashioned games of ‘All Hallows’ E’en…
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Historical Tidbits: Poison Pen Letters
Daily Diary, October 5, 2022, Day 764: Last week I listened to an episode of the podcast, Shedunnit, about the use of poison pen letters in mysteries…
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Historical Tidbits: Spiritualism
Daily Diary, August 24, 2022, Day 723: I listened to a https://shedunnitshow.com/knockknock/ podcast yesterday morning about how spiritualism (the…
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