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☆ Dover Castle: Soldier graffiti found on tower door in ‘astonishing discovery’
  + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —More than 50 etchings from soldiers have been discovered on an English castle door in an “astonishing discovery,” including graffiti of what could depict the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged. The door was only recently discovered in Dover Castle, in southeast England, charity English Heritage said in a press statement Wednesday. The graffiti on the door is thought to have been created by soldiers living inside the castle between 1789 and 1855. English Heritage suggests that, with hours to kill and “questionable artistic talents,” the soldiers may have whittled into the door to simultaneously whittle away the time. Three significant dates are also inscribed onto the door, English Heritage said: 1789, the year of the French Revolution; 1798, a period of rebuilding in Dover Castle; and 1855, when changes were planned to St. John’s Tower.
Persons: Napoleon Bonaparte, St, whittle, Jim Holden, Napoleon, Helena, Hopper, Hooper, ’ Paul Pattison, ” Pattison, ” Organizations: CNN, Heritage, Dover Castle Locations: Dover Castle, England, Napoleon, France, John’s, British, Waterloo, St, Dover
☆ Roman tweezers: Obsession with hairlessness revealed as more than 50 pairs of tweezers discovered in Britain
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
London CNN —Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of Roman tweezers in Britain, revealing the ancient culture’s obsession with hairlessness. The collection has now gone on display in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, which in its prime would have been as large a settlement as Pompeii. The simple tools would have been used not only for plucking eyebrows but for removing any unwanted hair – including in armpits. Usually associated with eyebrow shaping today, tweezers would have been used for general hair removal, including to pluck armpit hair, said English Heritage. The find was made at Wroxeter Roman City, one of the best-preserved Roman towns in Britain.
Persons: Jim Holden, Heritage Cameron Moffett, ”, Moffett, Andrew Maybury, Seneca Organizations: London CNN —, Heritage, English Heritage Locations: Britain, Roman City, armpits, Shropshire, Roman Britain
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