Monthly Archives: January 2017

HISTORIC (FICTIONAL) HEROES: THE LONE RANGER

Though many people think only of actor Clayton Moore when the name ‘Lone Ranger’ comes up, the folk hero first came into being on radio. (I’m so old, that’s how I first followed his adventures, albeit in re-broadcasts, as, by then, it was on TV, but we didn’t get one of those until I was […]

HISTORIC POEM: ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!” Thus starts the Scottish Bard Robert Burns’s Address To A Haggis, penned in 1786. Contrary to what Scots like to tell the gullible, haggis is NOT made out of a reclusive, strange-looking creature of the same name, found only in the highlands of Scotland. […]

TRIVIA TRAIL: THE PONTIFICAL SWISS GUARDS

Question: How long have Swiss Guards been at the Vatican? Answer: Exactly five hundred and eleven years. At the request of Pope Julius II, one hundred and fifty of them marched through the Porta del Popolo on January 22nd, 1506, led by Captain Kaspar of Silenen in the Canton of Uri. Just as Vatican City […]

HISTORIC PHOTOS: VINTAGE HAPPY PHOTOS

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HISTORIC BOOKS: THE BRONTËS’ CHILDHOOD MINI-BOOKS

The picture above is of Haworth Parsonage, home of the famous Yorkshire family, the Brontës. A talented crop of youngsters, they started their literary endeavours early. http://www.buzzfeed.com/kasiagalazka/the-brontes-wrote-tiny-books?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=583d064b1b-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-583d064b1b-304873533

HISTORY-THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTIES: MEDIEVAL TIMES

January 4th brings the first of our family birthdays, namely that of a young lady, who turned seven today. Over the next year, I will, each month, present ideas for an historically-themed birthday party for young history buffs. Since the one pictured has always been big on princesses, and her daddy (the kid in the […]

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017

 

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