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Norman houses In the Norman house they often kept a pet hawk in the solar, or a squirrel in a cage. Hunting dogs were kept at every manor-house. The kitchen was a seperate building, across the yard, so the food was often cold by the time it reached the...
Wild camels in Australia There are lots of wild camels in the Australian Outback. It is now becoming apparent that their presence is upsetting natural bio-diversity there. There are well over a million feral camels that are living in arid and semi-arid...
The Byzantine Empire is the conventional name of a medieval Christian and Greek-speaking state. The Byzantine people themselves referred to their state as the Roman Empire and Byzantium was just the city name of Constantinople. This is era is commonly...
COTTAR WIFE by Shelia Templeton There wis ae year we laisted the hale twalmonth twa hale terms, fae wutsunday an roon again - afore my man fell out wi the grieve, as wie his wont. So it wis back tae the feein-mairket an a new fee, a different cottar hoose,...
We are for our own people. We want to see them happy, healthy and wise, drawing strenghts from cooperation with the peoples of other lands, but also contributing their full share to the general well-being. Not a broken-down pauper and mendicant, but a...
Norman Castles Inside the high walls of a Norman castle was a big yard called the outer bailey. Against the walls were stables and sheds for corn and hay. Cows and sheep were driven into the outer bailey for safety, in troubled times The inner bailey...
Public Speaking Public speaking is the process, or act of performing a speech to a live audience. This speech is deliberately structured with three general purposes: to inform, to persuade, and to entertain. From the days of the earliest storytellers,...
Norman house. In the Norman house they could draw a curtain or screen across one end of the hall, the lord made a small room for himself and his lady. This private room was called the solar. They would go together to talk and the lady would sew. They...
In London, a company named Ubitricity is turning street lamps into charging points for electric cars by putting a device that fits inside the existing lamp poles. Summer time and now with less need for street lamps now they are finding other uses for...
Ancient Knowledge Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or...
The Domesday Book The Norman King William wanted to learn about his new kingdom in Britain William wanted to know how much Britain was worth. So the Normans sent their men to find out about every town, village, farm and field in all the land. The Normans...
This news is about a woman. She is from England. When she is 15, she leaves school. She thinks that she will never get a degree. The Second World War is a problem. She has health problems, too. However, she gets better. She graduates at the University...
Norman Castles In the Norman castle the staircases were cut in the thickness of the walls and had narrow, stone steps. There was very little furniture: long tables, which could be taken down to clear a space, benches and two or three chests for clothes...
Cats Claws and Teeth Cats differ from the ungulates. The ungulates are the animals with hooves. Cats belong to the large family of mammals known as the carnivores. Carnivores are known as this because they live mainly on meat. Those carnivores are hunters,...
fumi-e (“stepping-on pictures”) Christian art in Japan often have this fumi-e . These objects are bronze likenesses of Jesus, sometimes shown together with his mother, Mary, that the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected...
Hamlet Horatio being a good friend and classmate of Prince Hamlet, the late king’s son. One of the guards had seen the Ghost before and had invited Horatio to join him that night, looking for support “if again this apparition come.” We know that King...
The Normans The last big invasion of Britain was made by the Normans, from France, led by Duke William of Normandy. William declared that Edward the Confessor had promised him the crown of England, but as Harold would not give up his kingdom, William...
Monet once said, “When you go out to paint, try to forget whatever objects you have before you–a tree, a house, a field…Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow. Paint it just as it looks to you…to...
27th of March is International Whisky day, celebrating the Iconic Scottish spirit, and its counterparts from Ireland, Japan and the United States. The founder was Michael Jackson that wrote much on the topic of whisky. The day encourages the celebration...
The knights five In the castle they fired arrows and they got their machines out. Then the black knights came and they had a big battle. Then the king was fired but not fired as in a big fire because out of a catapault machine. Then the knights got a...
Today, stories are an intrinsic part of our societies and culture. Movies, books, music, news media, religions, architecture and painting, you name it, and the influence of storytelling is to be seen in all aspects of our life. Defining our values, desires,...
La Princesse de Montpensier L’histoire : Sous le règne de Charles IX, le jeune duc de Guise s’éprend de Mlle de Mézières. Bien que la jeune fille réponde à ses sentiments, elle est contrainte d’épouser le prince de Montpensier. Résignée, Mlle de Mézières...
A walk on the Hill.The air is still on Malvern HillI walk above the cloudColwall and Welland and hidden nowBy a whitened dampened shroud I'm above The Chase Inn nowAway from Malvern town" Right side of the hill" they sayYou'll see by at sundown And in...
May Day is one of those holidays that seems medieval, even ancient; the customs of flowers and fertility rites definitely feel like they go back a long time, and if they don’t, they should. This is the difficulty with settling down to write about medieval...
The Bears Claws, teeth and jaws Bears keep their claws sharp even though these are not retractile, because they walk on the soles of their feet, as we do. This means that the claws are not blunted and can be used as weapons with the teeth, to kill and...
