On Monday I blogged about debtors’ prisons, which people often confuse with poorhouses, the subject of today’s cheery blog. Debtors’ prisons and poorhouses were not the same thing, but were equally dismal places.
Poorhouses, or almshouses, existed in England from… Read More
Small herds of reindeer living above the Arctic Circle have been found dead from exsanguination (having their blood sucked out), the result of swarms of mosquitoes and black flies.