In eighteenth-century London, illegal gin was sold from a strange precursor of the vending machine which bore the image of a cat.

Margo Lestz – The Curious Rambler
Bringing History to Life
In eighteenth-century London, illegal gin was sold from a strange precursor of the vending machine which bore the image of a cat.
Have you heard of cat cafés? No, they are not where cats go to have their morning coffee and read the newspaper…
Marie Antoinette almost escaped to the USA. Of course, she didn’t make it – but maybe her cats did. Could that be the origin of the Maine Coon?
One of the main tourist attractions in the small medieval village of La Romieu, in southwest France, is the abundance of cats to be found