All in History
Antwerp, Netherlands, 1560 – Ludovico Guicciardini sets pen to paper and reflects on the rapid growth of his city in recent years. He finds much to be pleased with. The city is richer and more populous than ever before. Traders of all sorts are flocking to the expanding market at Antwerp.
“Is it true”, asked Ailil of Medb, “that all is well for the wife of a wealthy man”? Medb snaps back,“What puts this foolish question in your head”?
My first notice of Achilles came
when I was very young. I had only to reach behind my head to the bookcase that also served as headboard. The encyclopedia’s of Funk & Wagnalls stretched the length of the shelf
Martha Jane Canary got her handle, Calamity Jane, because a lot of folks said, “ You get crossways of Martha Jane, you’re courtin’ calamity”.
Once every seventeen years the air
is filled with a cacophony of click-clacking buzzing that seems to be vibrating everywhere at once.
Friday, 22 August 1485, Bosworth Field – “Richard’s corpse, naked and torn by wounds, was bound across a horse, with his head and long hair hanging down, bloody and hideous, and in this condition borne into Leicester for all men to see”.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (480-425 B.C.) wrote the earliest account of the geography, people and customs of the ancient world.
Never heard of him? Not surprising.
He wasn’t as famous as Cochise or Geronimo, though many consider him the equal of both as warrior, and perhaps better as a military strategist.
Did ever you hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike,
Crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of oxen and one spotted hog,
A tall shanghai rooster, and an old yeller dog.
Friday / October 30, 1874 / Bethany, Missouri: A piercing northwest wind swirled icy cold & and a powdery haze of falling snow through the crowd.
“Yoo hoo, it’s me, my name is Pinky Lee” he sang, as he danced his odd little sideways shuffle back and forth across the stage.
On June 17, in the year 2 B.C., there was a conjunction of the planet Venus with the planet Jupiter.
The doctrine of the divine right of Kings was accepted as inviolable for nearly a thousand years.