I always wanted to see that documentary. Thank you so much for pointing it out! Wasn’t on youtube last I checked.

Yes, but the difference with hysterical pregnancies, as detailed in this article, is that it produces symptoms that mimic actual pregnancy. The stomach might swell, the menstrual cycle might cease etc.

interestingly she was not the only English queen to suffer from a hysterical pregnancy. Anne I, who had 17 legitimate pregnancies, was so desperate for a child that she experienced one or two herself.

Yes, exactly, with his first wife Catherine of Aragon. She was a half sister to Elizabeth I.

the queen referenced in the story was Mary I of England. She was also queen of Spain, but never of France. Her aunt was also named Mary Tudor and was queen of France, so it's an honest mistake.

November seems like the best time, or perhaps December. Early in the year really wouldn't work, trying to cram it in before the Winter Olympics.

What if they were nowhere near a tower, and thus the phones did not work?

can i read some of your writing so that i might further judge you?

Is Keira Knightly physically capable of making a movie set after 1915?

All day on Gawker and on here and no one has spelled Courteney Cox's name correctly.

I'm still trying to figure that out myself.

The royal precedent for male preference primogeniture has been around for far longer than 300 years. Seems like an awfully arbitrary date.

Speaking of misinterpretations, you were not the 2nd country in the world to give women suffrage. I have no idea where you got that from but it is a factual inaccuracy.

God, I wish I had a blog of all my subway/public crushes.

i'm very disappointed in the lack of carmageddon pandemonium. i was hoping to stand outside and gawk at traffic all weekend.

i love love love the breeders.