History Schmistory, June 4: Insert cheesy joke
Saturday, June 4, 2022
1070Â –Â Roquefort cheese was created in a cave near Roquefort, France! Insert your own cheesy joke here : )
Pee-Yew!
History Schmistory, June 3: That Turkey is Toast!
Friday, June 3, 2022
1098 – After a 5-month siege in the 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seized A Turkey. And by A, we mean Antioch (the city in the country of Turkey, not the bird!)
Hey guys...I think we've got the wrong Turkey.
History Schmistory: June 2. Kenneth Branaugh & Emma Thompson marry!
Thursday, June 2, 2022
1420: Henry V of England and Catherine Valois of France marry. Kenneth and Emma played them in the movie. What?
History Schmistory: May 26. Napolean gets crowned. Again.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
1805: Napoleon is crowns himself King of Italy. Oh, aren’t you the big man, Napolean?
History Schmistory: May 25. Another one Bede’s the Dust
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
735: The Venerable Bede kicks the venerable bucket. A monk, scholar, teacher, and Doctor of the Church, Bede (also spelled Baeda or Beda) was the first English historian and is most well known for his extensive Ecclesiastical History of England, which would later serve as a major source for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. His work had a significant influence on English and European scholarship.
History Schmistory: May 24. You say you want a revolution!
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
1543: Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer who first posited that the earth revolves around the sun, goes to the great constellation in the sky, aged 70.
He was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. His Linkedin account only listed the first five.
Paris in the 60s. Mon Dieux!
Monday, May 23, 2022
History Schmistory: May 23. Hot Time in the Old Town.
Monday, May 23, 2022
1498: Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine priest, burnt at stake.
