Monthly Archives: November 2021
TRIVIA TRAIL: SAMUEL L. CLEMENS’S LESSER-KNOWN PEN NAME
Question: Famous American writer, Samuel Langhorne Clemens most often used the pen name Mark Twain, but he also used others. What name did he use for some travel letters published in the Keokuk Daily Post in 1856-57? Answer: Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. https://www.keokuklibrary.org/snodgrass-detailed Mr. Snodgrass and the Maid of Orléans https://time.com/5313628/mark-twain-real-name/ https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mark-twain-quotes
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, U.S.A. 2021
Have a safe, socially distanced, Thanksgiving. https://tinyurl.com/yxd2zrx8
HISTORY LURE: LIFE ABOARD THE MAYFLOWER
Kids who are lukewarm on learning history often don’t mind doing so if it’s presented ‘dramatically enough’, and with the American Thanksgiving Day approaching might enjoy recreating life aboard the Mayflower. https://tinyurl.com/y2rhanh4
HISTORIC ANIMALS: WAR CATS
It wasn’t just dogs and horses that did their bit. https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/four-legs-good/91888755/how-cats-played-a-key-wartime-role
TRIVIA TRAIL: EUROPE’S DP CAMPS
Question: What were DP camps in post-WW II Europe? Answer: Displaced Persons camps. https://tinyurl.com/8p9zj7w3
HISTORIC RE-BUILD: LONDON’S CARLTON PUB
London’s Carlton Pub was the only building on its street not destroyed in the Blitz. Just as it was about to get protected as a heritage site, developers bulldozed it. Imagine their dismay when a judge ordered them to rebuild it – brick by brick. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/21/rising-from-the-rubble-london-pub-rebuilt-brick-by-brick-after-bulldozing https://www.foodandwine.com/news/carlton-tavern-london-pub-rebuilt-illegal-demolition
HISTORIC ANIMAL: TINY CANINE WW II HERO
War dogs didn’t have to be big to be heroes. https://nypost.com/2018/12/01/how-a-tiny-yorkie-became-a-world-war-ii-hero/
HISTORIC SYMBOLISM: POPPY COLOURS
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In […]
Time Travelling With Kids 