From Gizmodo: Princesses, slaves, and explosives
Eliminating avoidable blindness
A short film from The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust:
"He didn't make us feel outcast at all"
Names, faces, and the generation gap
Dementia test tweaked for Gen X: Hirohito out, Oprah in
(Hirohito was the emperor of Japan during the Second World War.)
Why did Mary Ingalls go blind?
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the autobiographical Little House on the Prairie children's books, wrote that her sister Mary went blind due to scarlet fever, but a brain infection may have been to blame instead.
A royal ailment
Child kept as king's pet
"The condition that affected Peter the Wild Boy, a feral child… kept as a pet at the courts of George I and II, has been identified."
The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace by Lucy Worsley provides an amusing look at the colorful characters at Kensington Palace from 1714 to 1760, including Peter the Wild Boy.
No cancer in the ancient world?
A controversial study:
Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made
A different point of view:
Cancer is not a disease of the modern world
Vitamin deficiency and vampirism
From author/illustrator Carlyn Beccia's blog, The Raucous Royals:
What should you never feed a vampire?
Ms. Beccia's new children's history book, I Feel Better With a Frog in My Throat, is scheduled to be published in October.