March 21, 2022 at 2:13 pm
Here’s a Crash Course About the History of the English Language
The language is ever-changing and we probably wouldn’t understand English from hundreds of years ago.
The language is ever-changing and we probably wouldn’t understand English from hundreds of years ago.
There’s a reason why we call it “Dutch” chocolate.
These are fascinating.
An interesting look into the past.
They likely look a lot less threatening than we believe.
When he was in his forties, a 16th-century Italian man named Urbano Monte was determined to make a map of the entire world that was as three-dimensional as possible. Monte originally wanted to have 60 different components stitched together to make one enormous map. Map collector David Rumsey digitized Monte’s project so the whole world…
The Salem Witch Trials still loom large in American history. They took place in Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused of being witches, and 30 of them were found guilty. 19 people were eventually hanged. There are a lot of theories about how the trials came to…
The revival that The Muppets have enjoyed over the past decade has been wonderful and a lot of people want to hear the original hit song “Mah Na Mah Na” over and over again. Take a listen… The song, it turns out, wasn’t written for The Muppets, and Bip and the Snowths weren’t the first to…
A Tumblr thread breaks down a few of the more powerful, surprising, and downright fierce Medieval battle tactics that existed. Here’s one example that gives you an idea of how tough it would be for anyone trying to attack by going up the stairs: Once noble families started living in castles as their homes (instead…
CFL (compact fluorescent light) and LED technology last a long time (which is great), but they still don’t last nearly as long as this bulb has – it’s been burning since 1901. It’s even outlasted the Shelby Electric Company, which manufactured it in 1898. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brittany…
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