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...family of tropical trees and climbing shrubs. The best known of these plants is the Strychnos Nux Vomica tree from Indonesia; the hard, disk-like seeds of the tree are sometimes referred to as vomit buttons. But that mostly refers to the poison’s very bitter taste. Its primary effect is as a neurotoxin, binding to motor neurons that control muscles and interfering with...

...family. She married Tory MP the Hon. George Norton, they had little in common were very unhappy. Norton subjected his wife to vicious beatings. Caroline found consolation in writing and the publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to...

...family named Calphurnius, and a denizen of a neighbouring city of the Romans, who not long after abandoned Britain, in 409. Some writers call his mother Conchessa, and say she was niece to St. Martin of Tours. At fifteen years of age he committed a fault, which appears not to have been a great crime, yet was to him a subject of tears during the remainder of his life. He...