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January and Dr. Who
It took an act of Parliament to stop this month from flitting off to different times and places. Perhaps January served as Dr. Who’s companion during the Middle Ages. From my Grandparent’s IJ volume...
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Bookkeeping Made Easy
These simple steps seem all too complicated to me in today’s era of accounting software that does all the thinking for you, but it sure was fun to use these pages when I played school with my cousins...
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Recognize Anyone?
The 1937 edition of Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia devotes almost 12 whole pages to American Authors and What They Wrote. Several authors highlighted were deemed important enough to have their picture...
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Roman Rivalry Rules Our World
The former power trips of the Roman Empire affect us even today as we see from this entry in the 1937 Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia explaining why poor February got gypped of an extra day. Long live...
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Fooling The Fish
April “opens” summer and while you may have thought its on-again off-again weather is the impetus for the April Fool’s Day tradition, the origins are actually so old no one knows where it really...
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Are encyclopedias these days as helpful as they used to be?
For that matter, do they even make encyclopedias these days, or has web searching taken over the role those used to play? Hmm, I’ll have to Google that someday, which illustrates my reason for...
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August Owes February
As I mentioned in my post of February 1, February got shorted one day so that August (aka Roman Emperor Augustus) could rival July’s glory (aka Julius Caesar). Overall, though, the changes Augustus...
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