Monthly Archives: November 2019
TRIVIA TRAIL: FIRST BOOK WRITTEN ON A TYPEWRITER
Question: Who wrote the first book ever written on a typewriter? Answer: Mark Twain. Whether the book was Tom Sawyer, or Life On The Mississippi is up for debate, but Twain was the author. http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/mark_twain_wrote_the_first_book_ever_written_with_a_typewriter.html
HISTORY SHARE: MEDIEVAL PET NAMES
Considering adding an animal to the household? If Your kids are history buffs, they might like to consider these pet monikers. https://aleteia.org/2018/09/12/looking-for-a-name-for-your-new-dog-look-to-the-middle-ages/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/48982/bella-cha-cha-man-boogles-fido-mopsulus-dog-naming-trends-through-ages
HISTORY TIDBIT: HISTORIC BAD IDEA: POST CATS
Back in the 1870s, someone in Liège, Belgium got the bright idea of using cats to deliver the post. It didn’t go well. Thirty-seven felines were fitted with waterproof pouches containing messages for their owners and turned loose in an unfamiliar place some twenty miles or so away from their domiciles. Now, cats have great […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: FIRST YOUTH MOVEMENT
It is becoming increasingly common, nowadays, for young people to rally around causes they believe in. But even though youthful activism may be more widespread nowadays, it is not a new phenomenon. Back in 1212, some European kids got rather fervent about going on a religious crusade, something hitherto only by embarked upon by knights […]
HISTORY SHARE: NOTRE DAME RESTORATION
Impressive place. I took all three of our next generation to Notre Dame (one in 1984, the other two in 1993), and all of them can still remember the experience. Even the one who was in kindergarten at the time. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/31/notre-dame-restoration/
HISTORY SHARE: THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES
The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body […]
PHRASE ORIGIN HISTORY SHARE: BEING ‘PUT UP’ FOR ADOPTION
November is Adoption Awareness Month. https://adoption.org/history-putting-child-adoption?fbclid=IwAR0Ey1wsUvd1cNrY6Ak9w-7KC9-dB6HFUQGvGngMoEILVO9MWWOH2TN2fxo
HISTORY SHARE: BONFIRE NIGHT IN THE 1950s & 60s
Our family’s modest celebrations during that era were a far cry from the organized Bonfire Night my son and I attended in Battersea Park in 2016, but we still had a good time and our wooden fence survived the Catherine wheels, and the neighbours’ houses the rockets. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Bonfire-Night-in-the-1950s-1960s/
Time Travelling With Kids 