Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. It seems obvious now, but it wasn’t until the late 1800s that doctors began to notice ...
Women today breathe a little easier — thanks to a World War I metal shortage. Before then, women squeezed themselves into corsets that molded their figures to fit the Victorian ideal: a voluptuous ...
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