European history would have been dramatically different – if only for a higher-fiber diet. One of the most decisive battles in European history was fought in Belgium on June 18, 1815, as a resurgent Napoleon Bonaparte launched his final military offensive against the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Marshal Blücher. Nearly 50,000 men wereContinue reading “You may use this as a cheat sheet”
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Please take notes, this will be on the test:
So much history over unsupported hosiery: King Edward III was a famous English king, celebrated for his invention of manners and discovery of the economy. He played tennis and once famously rebuked the King of France for having sent him his balls in a box. King Edward established the Order of the Garter because heContinue reading “Please take notes, this will be on the test:”
A love song written by nature
June is the sixth month of the year and consists of thirty days. The ancient Romans gave it 29 days until 46 BC, when Julius Caesar added the thirtieth for reasons known only to himself. (Caesar’s hobbies seem to have been conquering the known world, sleeping with some very rich North African teenager, and makingContinue reading “A love song written by nature”
Hope you are all enjoying your special day
In case you didn’t get you mom a great gift, you can remind her that you will probably be helping with her nursing home costs. The United States celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May. In the United States, Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by the British version of the day and wasContinue reading “Hope you are all enjoying your special day”
Drivin’ my train …
April 30, 1900 —John Luther “Casey” Jones was born on March 14, 1863, in southeast Missouri. While he was still a small child, his family moved to Cayce, Kentucky, which is how he got his nickname. As a boy, he liked trains – he really liked trains. In 1878, at the age of 15, heContinue reading “Drivin’ my train …”
The first part of AP US History in under 10 minutes
It was a tense April in Boston in 1775. The colonists were simmering with resentment toward the motherland, on account of King George III having strewn the colonies with excessive tacks, painful to step on and bothersome to the horses. Furthermore, British cabbies had refused to unionize, and the colonists were adamantly opposed to taxisContinue reading “The first part of AP US History in under 10 minutes”
What are the roots that clutch …
When you woke up this morning, one of your first thoughts probably was probably, Will there be a new tax on tacks?. Don’t worry, you’ll know soon enough. But anyway, it’s April (again.) April is National Poetry Month It is a cruel month – usually mixing memory with tax payments (hopefully you’ve heard that youContinue reading “What are the roots that clutch …”
I hope you’re not lactose intolerant
March 31, 1889 –French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion on this date – but its history, as we all know, dates back to Gallic times. Documents that have been carbon-dated to roughly 200 B.C. indicate that King Catatonix of the Hellatians decreed, for noContinue reading “I hope you’re not lactose intolerant”
Karl Marx
March 14, 1883 –“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!” Karl Marx died of pleurisy in London on this date. While his original grave had only a nondescript stone, the Communist Party ofContinue reading “Karl Marx”
Another episode of The Crazy Mixed-Up Russian Revolution
March 7, 1917 –Russia’s 1917 February Revolution began on March 7, which was then the middle of February, in the city of St. Petersburg, which was then Petrograd, in what was then Russia, but would soon be the Soviet Union. Tsar (or Czar) Nicholas II of the Romanov (or Romanoff) line had been away fromContinue reading “Another episode of The Crazy Mixed-Up Russian Revolution”
The Haus of Dcaligari 