When the good citizens of Ballarat, Australia, stopped in the street in February 1856 to watch a comely young woman beating seven kinds of hell out of Henry Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, with a horsewhip, they probably thought it was just a fun new type of public entertainment. This was the gold rush, …
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