Monthly Archives: October 2014
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2014
The hats are photo shopped. The resident felines weren’t in the mood to wear them.
HISTORY CARTOON: VIKING CONVERSION CONCERN
* Authorized Reproduction, Rex May: http://baloocartoons.com/
HISTORY TIDBIT: THE GREAT CONKER HUNT
During World War One, collecting conkers (horse chestnuts) was not child’s play. It was war work. Cordite, a small ammunitions propellant, had, as one of its ingredients, a liquid compound called acetone that was made from starch. At the beginning of the war, Great Britain was able to use the starch obtained from maize and […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: LIBRARIES
This blog will be somewhat inactive for the next three days. That is because, for the next three days, I will be fully occupied with the Great Okanagan Book Sale. This annual occurrence (now in its twenty-sixth year and, yes, I’ve been to all of them), consists of a church hall being filled to the […]
TRIVIA TRAIL: WORLD’S BIGGEST STRAW ROPE
Question: What famous tug-of-war features the world’s biggest straw rope? Answer: The one taking place this weekend at the Naha Festival on Okinawa Island in Japan. The two-hundred-metre, forty-ton rope made for this centuries-old annual event got into the Guinness Book of Records in 1997 and still hold the title. Harking back to the days […]
HISTORIC SPORT: THE WORLD SERIES
The first official World Series took place in 1903, with the Boston Americans triumphing over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The World Series has taken place every year since, with only two cancellations (one in 1904, the other in 1994). Despite the inclusion of the word ‘World’ the only non-American baseball teams to play in the series […]
Time Travelling With Kids 