Monthly Archives: March 2023
HISTORY TIDBIT: RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGES
A religious pilgrimage is a journey to a specific place of specific significance to followers of specific religions. The oldest pilgrimage site is Mount Kailash in Tibet, which Buddhists have been trekking to for millennia, but other religious have holy sites too. Many are in the Middle East, and with today’s Mid-East tensions can be […]
TRIVIA TRAIL: EASTER ISLAND
Question: How did Easter Island get its name? Answer: European explorer, Jacob Roggeveen called it Paaseiland (Dutch for Easter Island) because he first saw it on Easter Sunday, 1722. Its Polynesian name is Rapa Nui. https://kids.kiddle.co/Easter_Island https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eais/hd_eais.htm
HISTORIC FASHION: PAPER CLOTHES
And they weren’t for paper dolls! First manufactured by the Scott Paper Company in 1966, paper clothes for actual people were trendy for a while, but the craze didn’t last long. Maybe because they were only ‘somewhat’ water and fire resistant. https://groovyhistory.com/paper-dresses-a-brief-1966-fashion-fad/9
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’: TIME TRAVEL FICTION FOR KIDS, TEENS, AND ADULTS
The word ‘history’ contains the word ‘story’, and as Rudyard Kipling once said, “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” And books with characters living in bygone times really do bring those times to life in an interesting and entertaining way, and thus make them memorable. Beginning this […]
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS: ‘BEST PICTURES’ SET IN BYGONE ERAS
Many of the history-themed movies and television series I enjoyed as a child are now on DVD. I have treated myself to several of them, and being possessed of a multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player can run them regardless of what format they’re in. Most of the ones based on real people aren’t historically accurate, but […]
Time Travelling With Kids 