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*THREAD*Marilyn MonroeNorma Jeane Mortenson was born on 1 June 1926 in California.Her mother, Gladys Baker struggled with paranoid schizophrenia.For the first 8 years of her daughter's life, Gladys Baker played

*THREAD*#Eyam #SocialDistancingRing-a-ring-o-rosesWhen victims of the Plague start getting rashes that looked like rings & were the colour of rosesPocket full of posiesSome people thought the disease was due to bad

*THREAD*"Women and children first" Despite chivalry on board the #Titanic , men fare better than women in nearly all other maritime disastersAnd it wasn't even on board the Titanic that

*THREAD*The 1918 Influenza PandemicThe 1918 influenza outbreak or “Spanish flu” spread across the world between 1918 and 1919.Infecting 500 million people and killed 50 million, making it the deadliest pandemic of modern

*THREAD*The history of the Hollywood signReal estate developers Shoults & Woodruff created an exclusive hillside community called Hollywoodland.Opened on 31 March 1923 and promoted as the first themed hillside residential

*THREAD*Lost River of LondonStarting in Whitestone Pond, Hampstead Heath, which is the highest point in London, the River Westbourne merges with the Kilbourne at the site of Kilburn Priory which