This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On...
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. Louis ascended to the French throne in 1774 and fro
I grew up picking cotton on my daddy’s farm and nobody asked for your autograph or put your name in the paper for that —Lee Roy Jordan Treated his players as if he had bought them at auction with a ring in their noses and was trying not to notice they smelled bad —Jim Murray,...
Shoks were marketed at middle-school-age kids and young adults. It appears that the first 10 million pounds of sales were a one-time thing, however, and the product wasdiscontinued not long after. The Shok product was sold in Totally Cheesy, Beef, Pickled Onion, Sweet Chili, Salt and Vi...
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: The History of Spices and Seasonings If, like the average human being, you consume nutrients on a daily basis, typically in the format of three main meals, then you’ll probably appreciate just how important the subject of this posting is to level of...
Lord Wharncliffe was the patron of Joseph Rodgers & Son — Cutlers to Their Majesties and one of the most important figures in the famed Sheffield cutlery industry — and so he presented the pattern to him. The blade was created and called the Wharncliffe blade after the Lord himself a few...
have found the most interesting with respect to the history of this huge sprawling subject. I’ve broken it up into five broad chapters: Griddlecakes & Pancakes; Biscuits & Cakes; Bread; Pies & Puddings; and Patisserie. Really, I could have written a whole chapter on each of these ...
Samwise Gamgee leaves Middle-earth, last of the Ring-bearers. Samwise Gamgee entrusts the Red Book with Elanor and leaves the Shire to sail West never to be seen in Middle-Earth again. THIRD AGE T.A. 3021 6 October Sam returns to Bag End on his faithful pony, Bill, after seeing of...
Las Vegas was founded by ranchers and railroad workers but its greatest asset became its casinos. Las Vegas’s embrace of Old West-style freedoms—gambling and prostitution—provided a perfect home for East Coast organized crime.
Future President Andrew Jackson is born in a backwoods region between North and South Carolina to Irish immigrant parents on March 15, 1767. Jackson was essentially an orphan—all but one member of his family were killed during the Revolutionary War—who