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The desire here was peculiar: a longing to possess what could not be spoken. The museum became a closet, and the curator a keeper of keys to private lusts sanctified by scholarship. The Chronicles of Peculiar Desires in the Briti...
Every year, crowds gather in Gloucestershire to watch brave participants chase a nine-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a near-vertical cliff. The desire for glory—and a wheel of cheese—frequently results in fractured bones and international headlines. Cumbria: The World’s Gurning Championships A small, Victorian-era snuff box—cataloged as "Item 402: