Outside, and quite close, people are letting off Brexit fireworks. It’s eleven o’ clock at night, so it will disturb children sleeping, and wake up those multitudes of us who need to work at the weekend. But I don’t think they thought of that.
To drown them out here is a song that was in the news today.
Horrible Histories S01E03 ↳Slimy Stuarts: Wife swap with the Miserables, a Puritan family, and the Merrys, a Restoration family
~ History ~
Some names such as Joy, Hope, and Mercy are still used today but others such as Silence, Discipline, and ‘If Christ had not died for thee, thou hadst been damned’ were real. Here is a list of more Puritan names
Tag yourself. I’m “Has-Descendents.”
History is one thousand times more utterly ridiculous than you might think O.O
Faint-not, perfect for the one with syncope
The Canton Independent-Sentinel, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1880
The Daily Commonwealth, Topeka, Kansas, June 6, 1883
The Minneapolis Journal, Minnesota, January 2, 1905
Daily Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, April 4, 1916
↳ 25/26 March 1199 AD – Richard the Lionheart is injured by a crossbow bolt during a minor siege against a rebellious baron and subsequently dies on 6 April.
terrible tudors, gorgeous georgians, slimy stuarts, vile victorians, woeful wars, ferocious fights, dingy castles, daring knights. horrors that defy description, cut throat celts, awful egyptians, vicious vikings, cruel crimes, punishments from ancient times. romans: rotten, rank and ruthless. cavemen: savage, fierce and toothless. groovy greeks, brainy sages, mean and measly middle ages. gory stories we do that. and your host a talking rat. the past is no longer a mystery. welcome to HORRIBLE HISTORIES.
