Tag Archives: Puritans

HISTORIC MISCONCEPTION: AMERICA’S PILGRIMS

November 24, 2022 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Religious freedom was not the only, or even the main reason, America’s pilgrim fathers wanted to go to the New World. https://tinyurl.com/yyf8mohd

TRIVIA TRAIL: SALEM WITCH TRAILS

October 21, 2022 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Question: Only one of the young girls who accused people of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials ever apologized. What was her name? Answer: Ann Putnam Jr., who was twelve years old at the time of the accusations in 1692. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/ann-putnam-jr/ https://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/salem_witch_trials.php https://tinyurl.com/2mfwjrpx https://tinyurl.com/a24vyuby

TRIVIA TRAIL: FIRST UFO SIGHTING

June 4, 2022 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Question: When was the first recorded sighting of a UFO? Answer: 1639 https://www.history.com/news/americas-first-ufo-sighting

HISTORY SHARE: COLONIAL CHRISTMAS

December 17, 2021 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

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HISTORIC SAVE: WILLIAM WINSTANLEY SAVES CHRISTMAS

December 17, 2014 · by Renee Duke · in HISTORY HAPPENINGS · Leave a comment

Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan followers didn’t approve of Christmas. Oliver and Co. didn’t approve of a lot of things, but they REALLY didn’t like Christmas. All that fun and frivolity was sure to lead people into sin, and they couldn’t have that. They felt that celebrating Christ’s birth with twelve days of merriment (as […]

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Tag Archives: Puritans

HISTORIC MISCONCEPTION: AMERICA’S PILGRIMS

TRIVIA TRAIL: SALEM WITCH TRAILS

TRIVIA TRAIL: FIRST UFO SIGHTING

HISTORY SHARE: COLONIAL CHRISTMAS

HISTORIC SAVE: WILLIAM WINSTANLEY SAVES CHRISTMAS

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