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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Star Man: Prehistoric Figurine
The name for this darling prehistoric figurine is quite suiting – Star Man. He was uncovered by archaeologists excavating the site at Fort Albany, Ontario. Star Man, was cut from a sheet of lead and is 2.0cm thick. … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Relics & Artifacts
Tagged 2300 B.C., alignment, archa, archaeology, asgtronomical, Atlanta, burial mounds, Cochrane District, Cree, earthen, earthwork, Egypt, excavation, First Nations, Fort Albany Ontario, Georgia, mound builders, Ojibway, political, prehistoric, pyramids, Royal Ontario Museum, site, Star Man, The History of James Bay, USA, Waskaganish First Nation
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Speakeasy: Medicinal Alcohol & Prohibition Prescriptions
During Prohibition, the U.S. Treasury Department authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal alcohol. Licensed doctors, with pads of government-issued prescription forms printed on treasury paper, advised their patients to take regular doses of hooch to stave off a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Entertainment, Medical Arts & Science, Wartime
Tagged 18th Amendment, Al Capone, booze, clubs, dance hall, doctors, Empire Distillery, home parties, hooch, Man Cave, Medical Cannabis, medicinal alcohol, nurses, pharmacy, prescription, private, Prohibition, quackery, Roaring 20s, Sleeman Brewery, speakeasy, The National Prohibition Act, U.S. Treasury Department, whiskey, wine
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Our Fancy – Home Sweet Home
Do enjoy this award-winning CGI animated short. “…a house which escapes from its suburban foundations and sets off on an epic journey.” Published on Dec 27, 2014 by Home Sweet Home Team
Posted in Our Fancies
Tagged animated short, award-winning, CGI, escape, film, Home Sweet Home, house, journey, suburban, suburbs
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Almost Scrooged: How Hitler Tried To Redesign Christmas
In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the world-liberator … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Wartime
Tagged 1920, 1930, 1940, Adolf Hiter, Beer, celebrations, festivities, Germany, Holiday, Munich, nationalism, nationalist, Nazi, Nordic, Pagan, propaganda, regime, socialism, socialist
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Charles Dickens’ Visit To Niagara Falls, Canada
He saw this “beautiful girl of twenty who had been in jail for several years.” She had, he wrote, “quite a lovely face though there was a lurking devil in her bright eyes which looked out pretty sharply from between her prison bars.” Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged Charles Dickens, Kingston, Montreal Quebec, Niagara Falls, Niagara Gorge, Poet's Corner, steamboat, Toronto, train, Westminster Abbey
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Introduction Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to gather berries. The children get lost and stumble upon a house made of gingerbread, which proves too much of a temptation, despite the strange woman … Continue reading
Traditional Christmas Plum Pudding
“In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered—flushed, but smiling proudly—with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.” – A … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Literature
Tagged A Christmas Carol, brandy, Charles Dickens, holly, mistletoe, plum pudding
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A Mystery: The Coventry Carol
If you thought Christmas was all about good tidings and joy, you were wrong. The Coventry Carol is a song about infanticide and also a lullaby sung by mothers of doomed children. Eggnog? The English carol dates back to the 16th Century and … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, The Joy of Musik
Tagged Bethlehem, Bible, blessings, Choir, Christian, Christmas, Coventry, England, gifts, Herod, Holiday, Holy, infant, Jesus, Jewish, Joseph, Magi, Mary, massacre, men, mystery, nativity, pageant, star, three, virgin, Westminster Cathedral, wise
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A Hemingway Christmas & New Year Flop
…they boarded a second plane that exploded at take-off. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged cat, Christmas, Ernest Hemingway, J Edgar Hoover, Kansas City Star, literature, Mary Welsh, New Year, Nobel Peace Prize, plane crash, suicide, Toronto Star
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1. (1) – Celluloid Dolls & Toys
Celluloid is a transparent, flammable plastic which deteriorates when exposed to moisture used to make children’s toys. Continue reading
Posted in Games & Toys
Tagged adolescents, adults, baby, boys, celluloid, children, creepy, dolls, flammable, games, girls, movie film, photography film, rattles, tea cozy, tea sets, toys, victorian, WWI toys, WWII toys
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