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They had it easy. Gods now have one face looking into the past and the other into the belly button.
Lol. Nowadays it is debatable whether even 1 God exists never mind many like ancient civilisations believed. I think it was their way of explaining how things came to be when they didn't know as much as we do now. They all had their different theories hence the different gods in the different civilisations & religions.
Did you know, the 1st anaesthetic wasn't an anaesthetic as such as it didn't send the patients to sleep or numb the pain while the surgeons (in some cases barber-surgeons) did the operation but made them laugh that much they couldn't feel the pain as it was Nitrous Oxide which is more commonly known as laughing gas?
Did you know that at 1 time criminals were detected by bumps on their head? This was known as phrenology. Criminal activity was thought to run in families. This theory was known as Eugenics. Nowadays if more than 1 member of a family is a criminal it is thought to be caused by how they were brought up. Gang culture is also thought to be a cause of crime. I think 1 of the most plausible theories on why people commit crime is rational choice theory which works on the basis that most people are rational & they have needs (ends) & ways (means) of fulfilling their needs. If crime offers more of a means to their end then they'll commit the crime but if the deterrent against this crime is too much they'll fulfil their needs in a legal way. This wouldn't explain kleptomania though.
Democracy comes from 2 ancient Greek words demos meaning people & cracia meaning power of the. Originally normal people were in power & did their day job as well as running the country.
Until recently women were seen as the weaker gender. Their role in life was seen as looking after the house & their husband & children. When women were taught in Victorian times they taught them the bare necessities as they thought if women's brains were stimulated too much it would render them useless for their true purpose in life.
Women in history who proved they were just as capable as men.
Boadicea who raised an army up to defend her area against the Romans. This was the Iceni tribe.
Queen Cleopatra who ruled Egypt.
Florence Nightingale who did a lot for the nursing profession,
Charlotte Bronte who wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell but whose novel "Jane Eyre" allowed her to make herself known by her proper name & was seen by William Makepeace Thackeray who was a leading author at the time as the masterpiece of a literary genius,
Marie Curie who discovered radium & polonium.
Amy Johnson & Amelia Earhart who were leading figures in aviation history.
Queen Victoria who ruled Britain when she had the biggest & most powerful empire in the world (though I disagree with some things she did).
If you think I've missed any, please feel free to add some.
Boadicea who raised an army up to defend her area against the Romans. This was the Iceni tribe.
Queen Cleopatra who ruled Egypt.
Florence Nightingale who did a lot for the nursing profession,
Charlotte Bronte who wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell but whose novel "Jane Eyre" allowed her to make herself known by her proper name & was seen by William Makepeace Thackeray who was a leading author at the time as the masterpiece of a literary genius,
Marie Curie who discovered radium & polonium.
Amy Johnson & Amelia Earhart who were leading figures in aviation history.
Queen Victoria who ruled Britain when she had the biggest & most powerful empire in the world (though I disagree with some things she did).
If you think I've missed any, please feel free to add some.
All British women need to think about, remember & be grateful to women like Emmeline Pankhurst & Emily Davison who fought very hard for women's suffrage. Emily Davison threw herself in front of the Kings horse in a race & was trampled to death. They fought very hard for women's right to vote. We need to respect & appreciate that fact & utilise that right when the time comes.
This is my initial idea for an 1/2 imaginative 1/2 historic piece I'm in the process of adding more information to but there's a lot more information I need to add & it's time-consuming.
What if?
What might Britain have been like if the Romans hadn't invaded Britain & kept the Scots over Hadrian's wall & then Antoninus's wall?
We might have all been like the Scots are now but without the baths, drainage system, straight roads, literacy & numeracy skills, cheese, wine & money.
What would have happened if Edward I hadn't been such a greedy King?
If the Romans hadn't have invaded Britain, it wouldn't have mattered as Edward I would have ruled the whole of Britain anyway. If Edward I hadn't been such a greedy King he would have been satisfied with just ruling England & wouldn't have fought to rule Wales & Scotland too. All them lives would have been saved. He wouldn't have earned his nickname of "Hammer of the Scots". Robert the Bruce wouldn't have been pressurised to change sides by his father & William Wallace might not have been defeated, captured, tried & executed for treason.
What if William III of Orange hadn't ordered everyone to pay allegiance to him?
He wouldn't have given the Campbell's an excuse to murder their worst enemies the McDonald's. If the Campbell's & McDonald's of Glencoe hadn't been worst enemies they would have explained to William of Orange why the McDonald's of Glencoe were late & the massacre of Glencoe wouldn't have occurred.
What if the Highland clearances hadn't occurred?
There would be more people living in the highlands & less sheep.
If all these events hadn't occurred & the 2 world wars Scotland wouldn't have all their songs as a lot of Scottish songs like "Scots wha hae", "Scotland the brave", "The ballad of Glencoe", "The Skye Boat Song", "Bonnie Dundee", "The Wallace" & "Willie McBride" wouldn't exist.
What if?
What might Britain have been like if the Romans hadn't invaded Britain & kept the Scots over Hadrian's wall & then Antoninus's wall?
We might have all been like the Scots are now but without the baths, drainage system, straight roads, literacy & numeracy skills, cheese, wine & money.
What would have happened if Edward I hadn't been such a greedy King?
If the Romans hadn't have invaded Britain, it wouldn't have mattered as Edward I would have ruled the whole of Britain anyway. If Edward I hadn't been such a greedy King he would have been satisfied with just ruling England & wouldn't have fought to rule Wales & Scotland too. All them lives would have been saved. He wouldn't have earned his nickname of "Hammer of the Scots". Robert the Bruce wouldn't have been pressurised to change sides by his father & William Wallace might not have been defeated, captured, tried & executed for treason.
What if William III of Orange hadn't ordered everyone to pay allegiance to him?
He wouldn't have given the Campbell's an excuse to murder their worst enemies the McDonald's. If the Campbell's & McDonald's of Glencoe hadn't been worst enemies they would have explained to William of Orange why the McDonald's of Glencoe were late & the massacre of Glencoe wouldn't have occurred.
What if the Highland clearances hadn't occurred?
There would be more people living in the highlands & less sheep.
If all these events hadn't occurred & the 2 world wars Scotland wouldn't have all their songs as a lot of Scottish songs like "Scots wha hae", "Scotland the brave", "The ballad of Glencoe", "The Skye Boat Song", "Bonnie Dundee", "The Wallace" & "Willie McBride" wouldn't exist.
Weird old remedies
1. The part of the nursery rhyme Jack & Jill where Jill mended Jack's head with vinegar & brown paper because he fell down & hurt his head actually had some truth in it because at 1 time it was thought headaches & migraines could be cured by vinegar & brown paper.
2. In World War I they put garlic which had been soaked in water on wounds & moss on top of them. Eww! I wouldn't fancy that.
3. 18th century sailors used to rub shag tobacco on wounds. Eww! I really wouldn't fancy that either. (I left myself open to rude word-play here). I normally like pun Ping-Pong as it's fun & I love witty word-play but I'm not sure I want to participate in playing rude pun Ping-Pong.
1. The part of the nursery rhyme Jack & Jill where Jill mended Jack's head with vinegar & brown paper because he fell down & hurt his head actually had some truth in it because at 1 time it was thought headaches & migraines could be cured by vinegar & brown paper.
2. In World War I they put garlic which had been soaked in water on wounds & moss on top of them. Eww! I wouldn't fancy that.
3. 18th century sailors used to rub shag tobacco on wounds. Eww! I really wouldn't fancy that either. (I left myself open to rude word-play here). I normally like pun Ping-Pong as it's fun & I love witty word-play but I'm not sure I want to participate in playing rude pun Ping-Pong.
This song is about a man in Scotland's history who is about to be executed for a crime in England during the wars for independence. It's chorus "ye tak' the hie road & I'll tak' the low road an' I'll be in Scotland afore ye but me & my true love'll never meet again on the bonny, bonny banks o' Loch Lomond" were supposedly said to him by his girlfriend with the hie road meaning heaven because he didn't think he'd committed the crime & the low road being earth.
How to do genealogical research
There are 3 ways of doing genealogical research. 1 way is the hard way which is to ask family members what they know starting from great-grandma & grand-dad & working backwards visiting register offices & churches for birth, marriages & death certificates & libraries to look at old census information. Information about Scottish ancestry can be found at Registry House in Edinburgh.
The 2nd is to do a surname search at the library, some museums or on the internet which takes you back to your roots & comes forward.
The 3rd way is to use both the above ways which is you can go from the present day back then double-check by coming forwards again or vice-versa.
There are 3 ways of doing genealogical research. 1 way is the hard way which is to ask family members what they know starting from great-grandma & grand-dad & working backwards visiting register offices & churches for birth, marriages & death certificates & libraries to look at old census information. Information about Scottish ancestry can be found at Registry House in Edinburgh.
The 2nd is to do a surname search at the library, some museums or on the internet which takes you back to your roots & comes forward.
The 3rd way is to use both the above ways which is you can go from the present day back then double-check by coming forwards again or vice-versa.
At 1 time bagpipes were played in all parts of the U.K. not only Scotland. It's a shame that isn't done now as I love the sound of bagpipes. They really calm me down. I used to do all my homework (except revision as sometimes I had to time myself with old practise tests so for as much authenticity as possible I did it in absolute silence though 3 of our clocks downstairs chime. I timed myself with chiming clocks) while listening to bagpipe music on record as it helped me de-stress & concentrate. I sing to the songs I know. If anyone wants a slight translation to any of the Scottish songs above, please feel free to ask. I just thought a bit of a musical history lesson might be nice & I love the sound of bagpipes. The music is definitely better than my writing.
My favourite museum is Beamish in the North-East of England & is an open-air museum where history comes to life. It's like taking a trip down memory lane with a Victorian farm, town & miner's village. You have a ride on the fair-ground, shop, go to the pub, go to school (I got the multiplication question right but not the question on Victorian money, I played hop-scotch. What I didn't like about going to school was when I was told I wouldn't have studied the diagram behind the teacher's desk showing the constitution of a horse as I was female & girls got taught only the bare minimum to prepare them for their role in life which was to look after their home, husband & children & they went home at dinner-time.) go to the music teacher's house, dentist, Manor house & taste freshly made bread, go down the mine (if you wish), in an old bank, on a replica of Stevenson's locomotion No. 1, you can help make clippy rugs from rags, there's now a baker's & photographer's where you can have your photograph taken in old-fashioned clothes (for an extra charge of course) & there's a fish shop & 1940s farm area where you can taste freshly baked scones with freshly made jam & see patchwork quilts being made. You get around the museum on horse-drawn carriages, trams & buses (old ones of course). Most Catherine Cookson t.v. adaptations were filmed wholly or partially there. More information if anyone wants a look. http://www.beamish.org.uk/
This song is about the Jacobite uprising when Flora McDonald rows Bonnie Prince Charlie over the sea to Skye. For anyone wanting to sing along with the chorus the words are "Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing. Onward the sailors cry! Carry the lad who was born to be King. Over the sea to Skye!".