In 1717, Edward Teach (Blackbeard) captured a French frigate. He turned this marvellous ship into his Flagship. She was then christened the Queen Anne's Revenge. Even though he used it for less than a year, the Queen Anne's Revenge remains the most famous ship associated with Teach. Blackbeard possibly named the ship after The War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714) as it was known Queen Anne's War in the Americas. Teach was involved in the war. Queen Anne's Revenge stood at 103ft in length and a 24.6ft beam. She allegedly boasted 40 cannons. On the 10th of June 1718, in the Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, Blackbeard ran the ship aground and escaped after transferring to the smaller ship, Adventure. Some suggest that he did this deliberately in order to disperse his crew. Here is a picture of a brilliantly constructed model of the Queen Anne's Revenge.
This man is called Peter Freuchen. He was a very famous Danish explorer and lecturer active in the early to mid 20th Century. This man has a list of achievements that make him sound like an action movie star. One of his most famous adventures occurred between 1912-1933 during the famous Thule Expeditions. Freuchen embarked on a 620 mile trek across the freezing Greenland Wasteland to test a theory that a channel divided Greenland and Peary Land. On this journey, Freuchen eventually became cought in an avalanch and was trapped and surrounded by snow that turned to hard ice. Do you know how he escaped this ice cave? By, he claimed, making a dagger out of his own feces!!!! Then, upon returning to base camp, he found his foot and leg had become infected with gangrene and frostbite. He had no choice but to amputate his infected toes himself with no pain meds. Ouch! That's just one of the apparent adventures of Peter Freuchen. Others include: Escaping a death warrant issues by the Nazis during their height of power and amusingly being the 5th person to win the jackpot prize during the game show The $64,000 question.
In 2019 Kennywood PA's Steel Curtain roller coaster was awarded the best new roller coaster in the New World with nine inversions including the world's tallest at 197 feet. It is also the tallest in PA at 220 feet, has 4000, feet of track and reaches 75 mph.
The original story of Sweeney Todd quite possibly stems from an older urban legend, originally based on dubious pie-fillings.[8] In Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers (1836–1837), the servant Sam Weller says that a pieman used cats "for beefsteak, veal, and kidney, 'cording to the demand", and recommends that people should buy pies only "when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kitten."[11] Dickens then developed this in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–1844), published two years before the appearance of Sweeney Todd in The String of Pearls (1846–1847), with a character called Tom Pinch who is grateful that his own "evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many country legends as doing a lively retail business in the metropolis".[12] Sweeney Todd - Wikipedia
Basenji – One of the oldest known dog breeds Canines have been an important part of human society for centuries, acting as family pets, working animals, and key assets for survival. Find out more facts about these creatures we have grown to adore and rely upon them throughout history. Humans have been keeping dogs as companions and pets for an estimated 12,000 years; the oldest dog fossils found date back to around 10,000 BC. The first identifiable purebred dogs are believed to be the Saluki (from Yemen) and the Pharaoh Hound. Many of the other oldest dog breeds originated in and around Egypt. The first canine encyclopedia was written in 1685 by Christian Franz Paullini in Nuremberg, Germany. Tragically, in 1796 there was decreed a law that taxed dog owners for both their indoor and outdoor pets. (England instigated fee charge of 5 shillings for an outdoor dog, and 3 shillings for an indoor dog.) This unfortunately caused many pet owners to kill their own dogs for fear that they could not afford them. Though cats were more widely regarded as deities than dogs were, canines were still revered and worshiped by the followers of Mithras, a faith-group that lasted several centuries during the Roman Empire. One French monarch (King Henry III, 1551-1589) was so obsessed with dogs, that he ended up housing over 2,000 dogs during his life, many of whom were miniature or toy breeds. According to the Guinness Book of Pet Records, King Henry III had a reputation for paying someone to steal a dog he liked if it was not for sale. One kind of dog that was common among herders and farmers in the 18th and 19th centuries was the “cur” who was a mix of a sheepdog and a powerful mastiff breed. These dogs would help guide livestock to market, and were highly valued by the farmers. Nevertheless, the term “cur” had a negative connotation if someone was called one. Before humans ever went to space, a dog named Laika was the first living creature to exit Earth, which she did in the year 1957. Loving dogs sometimes feels like a fundamental part of being American, and this is actually passed down from our very first president. George Washington owned 36 foxhound dogs in his lifetime. Showing a similar kind of devotion, Franklin Delano Roosevelt once paid $15,000 to have his pet dog retrieved from the Aleutian Islands. Teddy Roosevelt’s dog ripped the pants off the French Ambassador on his visit to the White House. Beloved child actress Shirley Temple once said she and one other film star became the two most endearing national symbols of hope to people during the Great Depression. The other actor was Rin Tin Tin, the first canine Hollywood star. Caring for dogs is a well-respected trait in child character development. Both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts have historically been able to win merit awards and badges for diligently looking after a pet. There are believed to be around 5 million canines born in the United States every year.
Most people in the US have seen sacks of Portland cement at the hardware store but almost none know where the “Portland” part of the name comes from. Last night we were watching a program on hiking abandoned rail lines in the UK and the segment concerned the abandoned line from Weymouth to the Portland, connected by a tombolo to the mainland. The massive limestone deposit was mined for many years and sent to the mainland. As the image of white limestone cobbles on a small beach came on the screen I had an “aha” moment. Sure enough, the invention on cement came from that area and became named Portland cement from the quarries of Portland. I’d wager fewer that one in a thousand Americans (or one in ten thousand) is aware of the origins of the name Portland cement.
Until the white man came and herded them onto reservations, the Kung! of South Africa lived in isolated family units. They had no words for things like guilt and greed, finding the concepts useless and in bad taste. Historical records indicate they had perhaps one serious theft, rape, or murder every 400 years. If someone did something bad, the family might surround them without warning and, one by one, tell the person something they did that they appreciated, then they would all go back to whatever they were doing, and nobody would ever discuss what brought them all together.
Sorry, I don't collect links, but its all well known historical data that any search engine will reveal. My specialty is linguistic analysis, and I study such things only to see just how full of crap academics are. You need a base of comparison for academic stupidity, which is as bad as it gets. I literally had to crack the analog logic of the Tao Te Ching, then rewrite all of formal logic, physics, and linguistic analysis, just to get a handle on how deep all crap goes.
this is typical of indiginous cultures pretty much everywhere, including here in the u.s., even in much, though granted not all, of pre-roman europe. as for documentation, ethnologies are available at most university libraries, as in many cases documented interaction between indiginous tribal societies and the governments that later claimed their land. modern governments arn't always and wern't always the bad guys in every context, but in this specific context, well governments controlled by 'settlers' and have to admit, the influence of bankers, were. not sure what pertinance writing a paper on the tao te ching or linguistic analysis has to do with it though. cultural ethnology and ethnohistory does. and not all cultural transfers are by migrations, and linguistic similarites can be misleading. the don't always or even often map directly into each other. the pretense of doing so is one of the excuses historically used by fascism. we all came ultimetely from auldivoi eithiopia, which was the garden of eden before human activity played a part in trashing the place. and no human was 'white' before somewhere between two and three thousand years ago. i wouldn't use the phrase "white man" though, when what is meant by inveders of european origen in the late middle ages, the so called age of exploration. the big lie used to excuse that was called the doctrine of discovery, and the motivation was gold and slaves to finance wars between european nations at the time of these invasions and abuses.
Words only have demonstrable meaning according to their function in specific contexts. That way, we can share them, anytime we want, any way we want, and even allow our words to speak for themselves, and reveal the self-evident truth.
