Cotton Mather was a puritan minister who wrote a how-to book on strategies to seek out witches. He has a building at Harvard named after him.… Read More
The 1600s were a foppish time for male fashion--men of rank wore make-up, high heels, and elaborate curls. In 1625, poisoner Signora Toffana invented a makeup made of liquid arsenic. Her Aqua Toffana was used to dispatch as many as 600 husbands.