History Schmistory, July 15: Roc-King Out!
Saturday, July 15, 2023
1799 – The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. It unfortunately did not give them the ability learn a new language online. It did however have three different languages written on it (Greek, Demotic & Hieroglyphic!)
Before internet was invented…
History Schmistory, July 9: Hear Yee, Hear Yee! Yo, LISTEN UP!
Sunday, July 9, 2023
1776Â –Â Declaration of Independence was read to George Washington’s troops in New York. I am sure some must have wondered why they were still following the leader after they were told they were free. Â After all, they now had the unalienable right to life which war could take away.
![Washington and Lafayette look over the troops at Valley Forge. [public domain]](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Washington_and_Lafayette_at_Valley_Forge.jpg)
Washington and Lafayette look over the troops at Valley Forge. [public domain]
Ludicrous Latin: Quone modo nunc, fulve bos?
Thursday, June 29, 2023
How now, brown cow?
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Ludicrous Latin:Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?
Monday, June 26, 2023
How do you get your hair to do that?
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Ludicrous Latin: Non, mihi ignosce, credo me insequentem esse
Sunday, April 16, 2023
No, excuse me, I believe I’m next.
Ludicrous Latin: Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar!
Ludicrous Latin: Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
I don’t care. If it doesn’t rhyme, it isn’t a poem.
Ludicrous Latin: Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Thursday, April 6, 2023
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
