Monthly Archives: March 2026
HISTORIC THIEVERY: BRITISH MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
The British Museum houses a lot of stolen historical objects (as in, looted from other countries), but not all that long ago (2023), it, too, was the target of a thief. The museum got back a lot of what was taken from it, but a number of foreign countries are still waiting for their stuff. […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: SAINT GERTRUDE OF NIVELLES
Even though it gets more press as St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th is also the day for honouring St. Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of cats. Gertrude wasn’t necessarily a big fan of cats, although she might have been, but since the Catholic Church wanted a patron saint for everything imaginable, she was put […]
HISTORIC USEFUL OBJECT: DOOR STOPS
Today, a lot of doors have kick-stands, but years ago, people used decorative heavy objects to keep doors open. Or, like in our family, a plain old glass bottle filled with sand. https://www.britannica.com/topic/doorstop https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3500-year-old-dagger-or-really-great-doorstop-180953923/
HISTORIC 30th ANNIVERSARY: DUNBLANE MASSACRE
Horrific though it was, it did get some gun laws changed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/life-uk-government-thunderbirds-ayr-rousseau-b2937639.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9m8zmxe25o https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Dunblane_Massacre https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sir-andy-murray-jamie-murray-233918623.html
HISTORY TIDBIT: SIGN LANGUAGE, VISUAL SPEECH, & ORALISM
March is Deaf History Month, and while invention of the telephone brought Alexander Graham Bell both fame and money, his primary interest was the education of deaf-mutes. His father, Melville Bell had created a communication system for deaf people that he called visual speech, an iconic phonetic alphabet of letters that showed the shape of […]
Time Travelling With Kids 