Ever bounced a baby, rolled paint, or enjoyed instant replay? Thank Canada’s unsung inventors!
Here are six things you did NOT know were Canadian. #CanadianInventions #Innovation #HistoryFacts #canada
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This chart shows the average weekly diet of one working class family from Oxfordshire in England, in 1912.
It was included in the book “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem” by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, published in 1917.
Source: “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem”, Rowntree & Kendall, pp. 59-63, pub. 1917.
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The fact that Jack the Ripper has now been DNA-identified, was not on my BINGO card for 2025
Yellowmead stone circle near Sheepstor in Devon, England is a concentric Bronze Age stone circle consisting of four stone rings set into each other. The largest is 20 meters wide and the smallest 6 meters. It is located on Yellowmead Down.
The circles once surrounded a burial mound, although this is now barely visible. To the south-west some possible rows of stones branch off, crossed by a post-medieval leat that once served a nearby tin works.
The site was excavated and restored by Rev. H Breton in 1921. In 2008, geophysical surveys and a small excavation were carried out to determine if the 1921 restoration had been done accurately (it was) and to find out if they were buried additional elements in the peat. Fallen stones were found in line with some of the stone rows, suggesting that further features may lie downstream below the slope.
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5000 years ago, the Neolithic people of Dartmoor cut this 27 feet high standing stone from granite where The Oxenham Arms is now located.
The pub was built around it when it was a monastery around 800 years ago, the stone goes down into the cellar & up into the room above.
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"Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories" is a sweeping and jarring work of how opium became an insidious capitalistic tool to generate wealth for the British Empire and other Western powers at the expense of an epidemic of addiction in China and the impoverishment of millions of farmers in India. #History #EastIndiaCompany #BritishIndia #Dutch #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/454/smoke-and-ashes-opiums-hidden-histories/
Stephen J. Shoemaker’s Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study is, in brief, an argument for placing the “closure” of the Qur’an, its development into the definitive form we know today, in 8th century Iraq and Syria, as opposed to 7th century Arabia. #History #Islam #Arabia #Muhammad #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/393/creating-the-quran-a-historical-critical-study/
Europe is a continent forming the westernmost part of the land mass of Eurasia and comprised of 50 sovereign states. #History #Europe #Europa #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/europe/
