It's 1788. The Great New Orleans Fire kills 25% of the population of New Orleans and destroys 856 buildings.

It's 1788 and the first permanent American settlement outside of the original 13 colonies is established in modern day Ohio.

It's 1788 and a riot called the Doctor's Mob takes place in New York City.

New Yorkers are angry about grave robbers stealing bodies for doctors and medical students to dissect.

They're all like, hey, we're sick formalities, we don't even

understand over here, and you medical students are pulling pranks and stealing bodies

instead of working on the real problems, like how to undo a witch's curse.

It's 1788 and Cyrus Griffin of Virginia completes his service as the last president of the Congress of the

Confederation under the Articles of Confederation. This is of course because it's 1788 and the US Constitution has just been ratified.

It's 1788 these were different times.

People saw morality through a different lens, obviously.

For instance, a practice known as bull-baiting

was popular, both in England and America,

by which a bull was restrained,

then had spices blown up his nose to enrage him, at which point angry dogs were sicked on the bull.

Until they killed it.

Bull probably killed a few of the dogs as well.

Great entertainment.

Some people even believed that the meat of the tortured bull tasted better if it was

killed by dogs.

You get that, of course. This by the way is where the English bulldog gets its name.

No, sorry, it's not because they have giant cute bullheads, it's because they were bred and

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