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- n a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
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- What's in your handbag? Study shows that items inside a woman’s purse are covered with more bacteria than a toilet seat
Look inside your handbag. What do you see? During a walk through the Newgate Mall recently, several women who checked inside their handbags reported the following items: wallet, keys, phone, chewed-up gum, wrappers, receipts, a piece of candy out of its wrapper, toothpicks, bobby pins, ponytail holders, granola bar, lip gloss, mascara, a toy, fruit rollups, sunglasses, an orange, pens, Chapstick ...
June 17, 2013 - Standard-Examiner
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- Victor Keegan in The Guardian
It does give you a feel of what life in London was like in those days,Keegan says. "The red-light districts of Shoreditch and Drury Lane, polemics against pulling down Charing Cross, the hangings at Newgate, the public burnings in...