Monthly Archives: October 2025
HISTORIC ENTERTAINMENT: CLASSIC HORROR MOVIES
I’ve never been a horror movie fan, but if you’ve got teens who are, they might enjoy watching old horror classics like Dracula (1931), Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), White Zombie (1932), and The Wolf Man (1941) this Halloween – if only to learn how far Hollywood scare tactics […]
TRIVIA TRAIL: THE PIRATE KING
Question: What European King became a pirate after being forced off his throne? Answer: King Erik VII of Denmark. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/07/eric-of-pomerania/ https://www.neatorama.com/2020/04/22/The-King-Who-Became-a-Pirate/
HISTORY TIDBIT: KING JOHN’S TREASURE
Beleaguered by the barons he thought he’d appeased by signing the Magna Carta in the June of 2015, England’s King John was, by dint of not having honoured much of anything in the agreement, still at odds with them in the October of 2016. Whilst travelling around the country avoiding them, he decided to cross […]
HISTORIC CONTROVERSY: FORKS
In many cultures around the world, people eat with their fingers or at most a spoon, and until the late 1600s, those in Europe and the America did, too. But then forks came along, bringing with them arguments about how they should be wielded that are still going on today. https://qz.com/1313214/nearly-400-years-later-the-fork-remains-at-the-center-of-american-dining-controversy https://www.alimentarium.org/en/story/fork
HISTORIC TREES: CHESTNUT TREES
The Ancient Romans were big fans of chestnut trees, and planted them across their empire. And in 1839, a chestnut tree even inspired a famous poem. https://www.bladesmithsforum.com/index.php?/topic/32178-the-village-blacksmith/
Time Travelling With Kids 