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Good morning all here we are at another Monday so here are some facts.
Two hundred years ago pregnant women in France were told to look at nice things in order to have pretty babies.
They were also expected to dwell on lovely thoughts and to read slushy books with happy endings. Also to avoid looking at bears and other zoo animals at all costs.
In the 1600's a hospital in Louvain, France they refused to hire ugly doctors just in case it caused an ugly baby.
In the 1600's anyone in Turkey caught drinking coffee was condemned to death by law.
Once in China the Beijing Duck Restaurant could seat 9,000 people at one time.
Goodness me, we have come a long way since those times..
ReplyDeleteThe discovery of how genetics works certainly was a good thing! LOL. I wonder if, in several hundred years (if humans survive), they'll look back and think we had strange ideas in the 20 - 21st centuries!
ReplyDeleteI have heard of pregnant women being told to look at pictures of beautiful babies and to drink milk or soya milk to get fair beautiful babies.
ReplyDeleteMargaret.......That we have
ReplyDeleteKea......Oh yeah I expect some will think we had strange believes
Nancy........If only doing such things would work
Let's see, Gregor Mendel was in what, the 1400's or 1500's and deduced genetics? And yet we have France....
ReplyDeleteThank goodness we no longer have to worry about such things.
ReplyDeleteChris...........Yeah
ReplyDeleteDebby..........Agreed