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: HALLOWEEN 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 […]
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS FOR OCTOBER
Here are some historic and/or spooky October viewing suggestions. The Ghosts Of Berkley Square (1947) The Ghost Of Flight 401 (1978) The Halloween Tree (1993) (Animated: Origins of Halloween) Lonesome Ghosts (Disney, 1937) (Animated) Madeline’s Halloween & Other Spooky Tales (2000) Mostly Ghostly: Who Let The Ghosts Out? (Disney, 2008) The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Disney, 2010)
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 […]
Time Travelling With Kids 