Month: July 2018
From Medieval times, a butt was a measurement of wine or whiskey. You could officially say you had a butt load of wine if you consumed 475 liters or …
The cakewalk, the most racist dance in the world, was originally performed by slaves on and judged by plantation owners. This dance, originally known as the “chalkline-walk”, the “walk-around” …
The Anglo-Saxons called it the “ear finger”. I’ll leave their meaning up to you! In Middle English, it’s the “little man”. How we use the pinky finger when having …
For one shilling in 1846, Victorian londoners could see the Euphonia, a talking robotic head with ringlets. Sometimes, it even sported a dress. The machine had bellows for lungs, …
