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A lot of love for Tallulah Bankhead (1902-68) coming in after tweeting about her yesterday. In honour of the scandalous Ms Bankhead, here’s a thread of her quotes. Enjoy, daaaaahlings.

Joseph Pujol (1857-1945), better known as Le Pétomane, was a professional farter from France, who headlined at the Moulin Rouge. His stage name combined the French verb péter, "to fart"

This is Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Wilde (1895-1941), Oscar Wilde’s niece. She was the only Wilde to keep that name after Oscar’s scandalous trial for indecency. Dolly was a socialite, who was

Andersen may never have had sex, but he masturbated a lot, and whenever he did he recorded it in his diary with a ++. He was very frank in his

This is Julius Fromm (1883-1945), he was a Jewish-Polish immigrant who moved to Germany with his family as a child. Fromm invented the condom vending machine & the “cement dipping”

Rosie Dolly (1892-1970) and Jenny Dolly (1892-1941), known professionally as the Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers, singers and actresses. They were hugely popular in vaudeville and theatre during

Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (1821-61), known to the world as Lola Montez ‘the Spanish dancer’ was a celebrated courted & mistress of King Ludwig I of

Joséphine Baker (1906-75) was an American born, French entertainer of the Jazz Age. When France fell to the Nazis she became a spy for the French Resistance. When the war

This is John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). Although it doesn’t look remotely controversial today, when it was exhibited at 1884 Paris Salon, the public were so shocked & disgusted

This is a watercolour painting of a condition known as ‘Chimney Sweep's Cancer’, also called soot wart, on a 32yo man. Soot warts are a squamous cell carcinoma of the

This is Mah Laqa Bai (1768-1824), born Chanda Bibi, (also known as Mah Laqa Chanda). She was an Indian Urdu poet, courtesan, warrior and philanthropist. She was the first female

The story of the Queen of Sheba appears in Christian, Jewish, & Muslim tradition, as well as in Turkish & Persian paintings, Kabbalistic treatises, & in medieval Christian works. She

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