Did you know that foosball was invented by an anarcho-syndicalist?
Other similar games existed before but were only popular in the areas they were created, Alejandro Finisterre created the table football we play around the world today.
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Freedom
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The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly
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Yeah, but… but… polygamy!
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Maybe they thought that would interfere too much with square dancing?
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The second world war was only 80 years ago… (if you count from the invasion of Poland)… if you count from the Nuremberg laws, that’s still only 84 years…
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This is easily explained - they got metric years and imperial years mixed up.
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George Langel of Ft. Collins pointed out what he says is a contradiction of laws:
Just seems like a contradictory of laws a woman can expose her breasts, but a man can’t go in an alley behind a dumpster and take a pee without coming up on criminal charges.
One would think the health hazard would be an obvious clue.
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Icelandic Nobelist Halldór Laxness’s novel Paradise Reclaimed includes an interesting outsider description of the way Mormon missionaries were treated when they came on missions to Iceland in the 19th century. For example, the main character befriends a missionary who says, “I always stop when people are going to beat me up”…just before he is set upon.
Granted, it’s still a long time (all my world war 2 era relatives are now dead, for example)… but it’s not quite over a century.
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Mental shortcut? short-circuit? from “happened last century” to “happened a century ago”, not caught by editing, because it seems nobody does that anymore.
The interesting thing for me is that there is a new source available.
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Yeah, likely…
And as a historian, me too! I’m looking forward to picking it up!
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Qapla’ my son!
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Imagine if Facebook could read your mind: Er, I have some bad news for you…
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
