@TheAttagirls@mehercle@CatherineHume10 Tragic and not uncommon even today. There are an estimated 100,000 victims of modern slavery in Britain today. 75% are male.
@mehercle@TheAttagirls@CatherineHume10 On marriage women remained legal persons, never chattels but property rights were transferred. Wives could never be legally bought or sold, folk customs where a wife was 'transferred' (usually to a lover) existed but these required the woman's consent.
@_Scarlet_Carson @BurnsideNotTosh I have a small indentation in the side of my index finger I doubt will go away. Mrs Clunster now laughing I have shown her your post.
The life of an olm - a blind aquatic salamander that lives in various caves across the Balkans - seems unusually mellow. They take 4 months to hatch. One didn't move for 10 years. Another didn't eat for 11 years. They have sex every 12 years. They live for 100 years.