Q: Why do most people not understand the saying… “The exception proves the rule” ?
A: Because when the saying first came into being around the 16th century, the word ‘prove’ meant “test”. As indeed in certain restricted usages it still…
The “Queen Mum”: Woman With the Common Touch
Britain’s “Queen Mum,” remains the most popular royal of modern times thanks to her warm and gracious personality.
The daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore, Elizabeth married Prince Albert, the Duke of York,…
Do you have a fascination with the bizarre? Or, perhaps, a long-neglected interest in the medical profession?
The place for you, then, is the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A visit to the Mutter Museum is a view into a world…
I was born with long legs. Add to this, I am also very thin.
I always go through a lot to buy jeans. I guess the Garment Industry doesn’t believe that you can be both tall and thin.
Sometimes even the Longs…
Both.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered original oral tales primarily from the growing German middle class in the early nineteenth century.
The tales they published, however, were substantially altered, with significant changes in characters and meaning.
The tales, therefore, were not simply oral…
Pauline Cushman, a gypsy woman of great beauty, became famous as a Union spy during the Civil War.
An actress who pretended to be sympathetic to the South, she used her position with a traveling show to secretly work for the…
A couple of days ago I went to the hardware store to get some 2×4’s.
I told the clerk I needed 35 of them.
He asked me “how long do you want them?” I replied, “I’ll need them for a long time,…
Enter the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis, MN, (dubbed “The Quackery Hall of Fame”) and you’ll get a closeup look at the world’s largest display of “what the human mind has devised to cure itself without the benefit…
I get so mad at people who are constantly preaching about how wrong it is to gossip and try to start trouble with others.
Especially when they turn right around, and start rumors about the people they were just preaching to.
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Song of Amergin is an ancient Celtic calendar-alphabet, found in several purposely garbled Irish and Welsh variants, which briefly summarizes the prime poetic myth.
I am a stag:of seven tines,
I am a flood:across a plain,
I am a wind:on a deep lake,
I…