The Gunpowder Plot – a fool proof plan that wasn’t!
Let’s make history fun, this was a plan that the conspirators, pictured above, thought was fool proof, unfortunately it wasn’t! The Church of Egland had been formed 80 years before, but the conspirators were not happy, they wanted to bring the Catholic religion back to England, and it was obvious to them that James 1, […]
Why the Valley of the Kings?
Before the Valley of the Kings Pharaohs were buried in the great pyramids at Giza, however, there was a problem. They kept getting robbed! Basically, pharaohs were buried in pyramids, with all their belongings. They became a tomb robbers dream. It appears that a pyramid was the wrong place to save valuables. As a result, […]
Do you believe in the Afterlife?
The Egyptians did. To them it was very important, they believed in immortality! This was because they believed that death was just an intermission to life, not an end, which is why they were so supportive and paid such reverence to the gods. For this reason, on death they were mummified, to allow the […]
The Afterlife and the process of Mummification
Do you find this weird? The Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, and their belief was that parts of them went to the Afterlife, in fact those parts that went into the Afterlife were: The Ka, Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul, which could bring the corpse back to life. The Ba, the spirit, […]
Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun’s tomb
On November 4th 1922 Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamun. He had been employed by Lord Carnarvon since 1907 looking after the excavations of the tombs in Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes. Then in 1914, Lord Carnarvon received the concession to dig in the Valley of the Kings, and again he asked Howard Carter […]
The canal of the Pharaohs
The Suez Canal blocked, what can they do? The Suez Canal became famous recently when the container ship Evergreen got stuck in the canal. The Suez Canal is today’s major route for goods coming from the Far East to Europe. When it got blocked, the world panicked. Today’s canal, which took ten years to build, […]
Did Christopher Columbus discover America?
October 16th, 1492 – Christopher Columbus’ Fleet Anchors at “Fernandina” On this date, October 16th, 1492, Christopher Columbus and his small fleet of three ships, Niña, Pinta, and Santa María, dropped anchor near an island he named “Fernandina.” In actual fact, he hadn’t reached the continent of America he had actually landed at what we […]
A novel way to invent
Elias Howe Jr This is one of those amazing stories, so amazing you have to hear it On September 10th 1846 Elias Howe Jr was granted a patent for the sewing machine. However, I am fascinated by the story as he told everyone how he came up with the invention. He claimed it came to […]
Who was I K Brunel’s father?
Many people have said that Isombard Kingdom Brunel was our greatest engineer, which led me to wonder from where he came, did his background help him? The answer is a great big, yes. His father, Sir Marc Brunel, was an amazing engineer, of whom nobody has heard. He was born in Hacqueville, Normandy, France, but […]
Nellie Bly – Went round the world in 72 days
Well, on November 14th 1889 Nellie Bly left New York in the steamer Augusta Victoria as she thought she could, and she did, returning to New York 72 days later. Nellie Bly was a New York World journalist. She was fascinated by the book Around the World in Eighty Days in which Phileas Fogg fictionally […]