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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Today's Eighteenth-Century Job Title
Embellisher of Letters to the Eastern Princes,
a government post that paid 60 lbs per year in the 1750s.
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John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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