Coffee & Curiosities
What would a strange history blog be if it didn’t talk about the strange occurrence at Eilean Mór? It would be lacking, I tell you, LACKING, so I’m going to remedy the situation. Pour your cuppa and read on. If you’re wondering where Eilean Mór is, and what it is, you’re probably not alone. Eilean
If you hadn’t guessed by the title of this blog, I like coffee. I like coffee a lot. While I’m not generally a person who cares if she swims WITH the stream, in this instance it doesn’t distress me to know that I’m not alone. Let’s take a look at the strange history of coffee,
As long as there have been bodies, there has been a need to CLEAN those bodies. At some points in history, water was thought to be dangerous and bathing would make you “foul sick” – a common saying was a bath when you were born and one when you died was all you needed. Victorian
Since it’s still Women’s History Month, let’s talk about another badass bossbabe today – Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms. In the last post, we were in China, so let’s head to the west coast of southern Africa, to what is now Angola, to learn about this amazing woman. I thought I’d learned
Since it’s Women’s History Month, I figured I should do a post or two about some pretty interesting women through history. Since my youngest child is studying Chinese at university (*waves at youngest*), I settled on Ching Shih, Pirate Queen of the Qinq Dynasty. Definitely one of the most interesting women in history; she is
Now that we’re a year into fifteen days to flatten the curve, we’ve all had a good 12 months to see the various cures and preventatives presented for COVID-19. Especially during the early months of the pandemic, you couldn’t open social media without seeing some sort of bizarre treatment or preventative for the virus; everything
Mummies. No, not the ones on film or in fiction (talking to you, Imhotep). The real deal. Chances are good that you’ve at least seen a picture of one; in fact, many of you have seen one in a museum, separated from the dearly departed by a pane of acrylic. If you want to be
