As everyone is anxious to get out of the house, the neighborhood, the state, or even the country, after being confined for weeks in the apartment or house, there is going to be a run on travel and tour agencies … Read More
Kaifeng, China, 1147, offering sumptuous banquets. from the varied and delicious cuisines of China’s different regions. Hundreds of small inns, teahouses, boodle shops, and dumpling houses also thrive night and day in this bustling cosmopolitan center. Bureaucrat and roving critic … Read More
It All Began in 1924 The point and intentions of this blog are for the younger generation, and for the non-believers, to see and understand why and how a human race can be manipulated in doing such inhuman acts, the … Read More
London, England, July 4, 1954 Several unusual things happened today: Smithfield Market opened for business at midnight, rather than 6.00 a.m. the London Housewives’ Association could be seen in Trafalgar Square conducting some sort of arcane ritual, and Geoffrey Lloyd, … Read More
England, 1266 The size, weight, and more importantly, the price, of bread, is to become standardized. In a decree called the Assize of Bread and Ale, King Henry III has requested uniformity in the production of this staple food to … Read More
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1828 The Mayan civilization cultivated it in the Yucatan peninsula as early as 600 CE. and drank it with chili. Hernandez Cortez introduced it to Spain in 1528, and for almost 100 years Spain guarded it as a … Read More
New Haven, Connecticut, USA, December 1900 A small lunch wagon that sells steak sandwiches to local factory workers in tiny New Haven, Connecticut, has served what they are calling a “hamburger,” which was hastily made for a man who dashed … Read More
“IF MEN COULD LEARN FROM HISTORY, WHAT LESSONS IT MIGHT TEACH US!” Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 The World seems to be so disgusted, outraged, and surprised at this Coronavirus, however, diseases, epidemics, pandemics, and plaques have been around for … Read More
Here is a course of events that started in the ’40s and changed the world order. The World process in a big context A closer look at the past events of the 1940s shows almost a temporal symmetry: in the … Read More
🤔 Sitting back watching and observing as the whole world is on lockdown, and trying to make sense of this situation, I then realized that this must be a wake-up call to all of us because it does not matter … Read More
