Monthly Archives: April 2018
HISTORIC REVELATION: PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF ANCIENT BRITONS
With all the Angle, Saxon, and Viking bloodlines prevalent in Great Britain, people from that part of the world are often thought of as being mostly fair haired, fair skinned, and blue-eyed – a notion helped along by Pope Gregory I, who, according to legend, was so intrigued by the physical appearance of some “Anglii” […]
HISTORIC LIBRARIES: THE PACK HORSE INITIATIVE
Speaking of horses…the importance of books was recognized long before the World Book Day celebrated a couple of days ago. During the Great Depression, libraries were a welcome source of books for people couldn’t afford their own. Unfortunately, a lot of people in remote areas of the United States didn’t have access to libraries, so […]
HISTORIC DISPUTE: THE LOST CITY OF TROY
Ancient Greeks are said to have entered the city of Troy by way of the Trojan Horse on April 24th, 1184 B.C. Whether or not they actually did so on that specific date, or even at all, is something scholars still dispute. Along with whether or not Troy even existed. https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/search-lost-city-troy
TRIVIA TRAIL: FAMOUS WW II WAR WORKER
Question: Though some of the mechanically-minded young girls who served as truck mechanics in Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service during WW II went on to have careers in that field, most became homemakers or went into a different line of work. The young woman in the photo is now ninety-two, and still actively involved in […]
TRIVIA TRAIL: THE TITANIC’S MYSTERY CHILDREN
Question: Among the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic were two small boys travelling under assumed names. What were their real ones? Answer: Michel and Edmund Navratil, who’d been kidnapped in France by their father. Their mother recognized them in the pictures posted after the disaster and travelled to the U.S.A. to reclaim them. […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: IZAL – THE NOT-AT-ALL SOFT TOILET PAPER
Further to the subject of toilets, anyone living in England up until the ’70s (’80s in some places) should remember the joys of Izal, the cheap, shiny, toilet paper in schools and other public loos. As well as homes where it was considered more hygienic than that soft, cissy stuff. Granted, it was medicated (the […]
Time Travelling With Kids 