Word: seventeenth
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...women as the more sympathetic and compassionate gender. Nevertheless, I am aware of what traditionally happens to women when they defy this stereotype. Revisionist historians look to the Salem witch trials as a backlash against women who might have been seen as overly demanding, cold or just plain aggressive. Seventeenth century judges used a "w" instead of a "b," and the flogging commenced...
When Middlesex County first began documenting land transactions in the seventeenth century, all that local officials needed to complete the paperwork was a book, a quill and a scribe with no taste for glamour...