Social rituals are important to hunts, although many have fallen into disuse. One of the most notable was the act of blooding. This is a very old ceremony in which the master or huntsman would smear the blood of the fox or coyote onto the cheeks or forehead of a newly initiated hunt follower, often a young child
agpopovska: Wellington Destructor. Dec 12, 1923 Construction of the chimneys for a garbage incinerator in Toronto, Canada. At an incinerator in Finland, mercury was increased in hair of residents living in the vicinity, most likely due to incinerator releases. Children living near a modern incinerator in Spain were found to have elevated levels of urinary thioethers, a biomarker of toxic exposure. Elevated levels or more frequent occurrence of certain PCBs occurred in the blood of children living near a hazardous waste incinerator in Germany.
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runcityrun: oldtimeycats: From photographs of the “Spitalfields Nippers” by Horace Warner, 1912, in a great article on the blog Spitalfields Life. …the real Dick Whittington…(napkin sack not included)
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