Monthly Archives: November 2025
HAPPY AMERICAN THANKSGIVING 2025
And if kids should happen to want to know why it is when it is:
HISTORIC HUMANITARIAN: EGLANTYNE JEBB
Born into luxury, she strove to make life better for those who weren’t. https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/why-save-the-children/eglantyne-jebb https://annettelaing.substack.com/p/the-woman-who-disliked-kids-and-saved
TRIVIA TRAIL: FAMOUS SPECTATOR
Question: What famous American watched the first free balloon flight, made by Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois Laurent d’Arlandes on November 21st, 1783? Answer: Benjamin Franklin. https://kids.kiddle.co/History_of_ballooning
HISTORIC RHYME: ‘MONDAY’S CHILD’
The, originally, English nursery rhyme below was first published in 1838, and every child who hears it wants to know what day of the week he or she was born. For those born on a Wednesday, like me, the forecast is a bit disconcerting, but gives siblings who entered the world on more appealing days […]
HISTORY SHARE: THE MOB FEEDS A MOB
Apparently even gangsters could have compassion during tough times. https://www.history.com/articles/al-capone-great-depression-soup-kitchen
HISTORIC HELP: SOUP KITCHENS
A necessary form of help for the destitute that, sadly, has had to keep going. https://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/subjects/history/history-the-full-story/ireland-in-the-19th-centu/soup-kitchens-and-workhou/
HISTORIC CONTOVERSY: KARL-HEINZ ROSCH MEMORIAL
Even over eighty years on, people in the Netherlands remain committed to honouring members of the Allied forces that liberated them from German occupation in WW II, both the fallen and the few still alive; so it’s not surprising that, in 2008, those in the little Dutch village of Goirle took a lot of flack […]
HISTORIC ENTERTAINMENT: VAUDEVILLE ACTS
Vaudeville acts were an assortment of individual acts that featured comedians, singers, dancers (also known as hoofers), musicians, magicians, acrobats, jugglers, and even trained animals. They started up in America in the 1890s, but took their name from comic songs or poems performed in theatres in 17th– and 18th-century France. https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/vaudeville/339391 https://kids.kiddle.co/Vaudeville Bonus: A […]
Time Travelling With Kids 