By Lara Mudie Latta "God cannot alter the past, though historians can." - Samuel Butler (1835-1902) The way history is taught in school, we are often led to believe that...
Conflicts in life are unpleasant. It destroys relationships and leaves a bitter taste in our mouths, so we try to avoid it at all costs. In history, though, conflicts were on...
[caption id="attachment_6571" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Representation of a garden hermit in Germany in the late 18th century[/caption] It turns out that the garden gnome that we now use to ornament our...
Snollygoster (snahl-ee-gahs-tuhr) - an unprincipled person, a liar, especially a politician This ridiculously fun-to-say word comes from 19th-century American slang. The origin of this term is suspected to have come...
By Dr. Edward Whelan What is the history of Saint Patrick’s Day? St Patrick’s Day is the National Day of Ireland and it was observed by those of Irish heritage...
Answer provided by Oscar Tay: What most people know of as the “pirate accent” is not actually how pirates talked. It’s called West Country English and it’s spoken in Devon,...
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