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2. Scheele's green - Wikipedia

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   Scheele's green was used to color wallpapers, paper furniture linings, and textiles used in clothing and bookbindings, along with paints, wax candles, and even some children's toys. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Scheele's green is more brilliant and durable than the then-used copper carbonate pigments.

3. 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning - Wikipedia

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   In the Victorian era, arsenic was an ingredient in several household products, including medicines (for external and internal use), candles, wallpaper, soft furnishings and colourants for foods. [10] It was also used as a poison for murder.

4. Shadows from the Walls of Death - Wikipedia

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   The book warns of the dangers of then commonly used arsenic-pigmented wallpaper. The book contains 86 samples of said wallpaper. Due to the dangerous amount of arsenic in the work, only five of the original 100 copies have survived. Most copies were destroyed by the recipient libraries. [2]

5. Paris green - Wikipedia

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   Scheele's green is a chemically simpler, less brilliant, and less permanent, copper-arsenic pigment used for a rather short time before Paris green was first prepared, which was approximately 1814. It was popular as a wallpaper pigment and would degrade, with moisture and molds, to arsine gas.

6. Beautiful Victorian Homes for Sale Across America - AOL

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   Picture an elegant old home in your mind, and chances are good that you're imagining something resembling a Victorian. Here are 20 of the most beautiful ones up for sale.

7. 'Rare' Victorian market sold to new owner

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   Carlisle's covered Victorian market has been sold to a new owner, who has pledged to bring the Grade II listed building back to life. The Eden Centre has been bought by the Llandudno-based ...

8. Poison Book Project - Wikipedia

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   The Poison Book Project is a project of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and the University of Delaware to identify and catalog books known to contain poisonous substances, particularly arsenic in Paris green pigments. It was started in 2019 when Winterthur staff members Melissa Tedone and Rosie Grayburn identified a book containing ...

9. Grand Victorian in Corktown, once home of a Tigers owner, for ...

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   A Victorian home in Corktown, occupied at one time by the owner of the Detroit Tigers in 1900, is for sale for just under $2 million — and, get this — it comes with its own plan to help cover ...