The British Museum houses a lot of stolen historical objects (as in, looted from other countries), but not all that long ago (2023), it, too, was the target of a thief. The museum got back a lot of what was taken from it, but a number of foreign countries are still waiting for their stuff. […]
Even though it gets more press as St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th is also the day for honouring St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of cats. Gertrude wasn’t necessarily a big fan of cats, although she might have been, but since the Catholic Church wanted a patron saint for everything imaginable, she was put […]
Today, a lot of doors have kick-stands, but years ago, people used decorative heavy objects to keep doors open. Or, like in our family, a plain old glass bottle filled with sand. https://www.britannica.com/topic/doorstop https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3500-year-old-dagger-or-really-great-doorstop-180953923/
Horrific though it was, it did get some gun laws changed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/life-uk-government-thunderbirds-ayr-rousseau-b2937639.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9m8zmxe25o https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Dunblane_Massacre https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sir-andy-murray-jamie-murray-233918623.html
March is Deaf History Month, and while invention of the telephone brought Alexander Graham Bell both fame and money, his primary interest was the education of deaf-mutes. His father, Melville Bell had created a communication system for deaf people that he called visual speech, an iconic phonetic alphabet of letters that showed the shape of […]
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