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About 1872 in the Erzgebirge, area of Germany Wilhelm Fchtner made the first commercial nutcrackers. The Erzgebirge region of Germany is between Saxony and Czechoslovakia. The most popular of the manufactures of nutcrackers is Christian Steinbach.
Christian Steinbach and his daughter Karla now live Hohenhameln. Christian is grooming his daughter Karla to be the sixth generation [...]
Born Charles John Huffam Dickens on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the great English novelist, Charles Dickens was also considered one of the English language’s greatest writers and was acclaimed for his insightful storytelling and memorable characters. Little wonder then, that he has achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.
The early life of [...]
Born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde on October 16 1854, Wilde was the second son born into a family of Anglo-Irish descent. His father, Sir William Wilde, was Ireland’s leading ear and eye specialist and a renowned philanthropist. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee was herself a successful writer and a poet for the [...]
What’s the first thing that enters your mind when you think of MIT, the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology: engineering genius, mathematical wizard, visionary, geek, hacker? If you chose any one of those, you would be correct. Mix them all together, add some smoke and mirrors, big-time anonymous investors, a dash of anarchy for good [...]
You know, there is a lot of misunderstanding in the world over religions. Sometimes, I feel that if all religions disappeared and humans realized that less than 25-30 generations separate their genes, that maybe all the issues might change. Although, perhaps the primate politics, territorial conflicts and resource pursuits might still be at issue - [...]
A number of commentaries on Shakespeare’s Richard II are devoted to the dialectical nature of the play, stressing the opposition of many of the elements in the drama. Studies have been written which demonstrate that the play is concerned with the opposition of the medieval order, represented by Richard, and the emerging modern order, represented [...]
Soyinka’s early play The Road offers him a mirror through which he looks at, examines critically as well as laughs at the faults foibles and pretensions in emergent African societies. This is of course a very familiar concern in all genres of African Literature. Wole Soyinka is therefore not out of place in preoccupying [...]
It is known that there were hundreds of circuses operating in mid Victorian times around 1850-1860. Circuses were a part of culture and a unique part of western culture and what is known as Victorian culture and Victorian culture had important influences on Modern Culture. The skills whether that of the performers or the specific [...]
Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” is an incredible book that is well known for its condemnation of the unsanitary conditions of meat packing plants, but many people today don’t know that this book had a much wider, immense scope, and ambition. He also dealt with issues of racism, immigration, poverty, capitalism run rampant, and social [...]
1792 - The first practical optical telecommunication system - Claude Chappe’s semaphore system
French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system was a series of semaphores mounted on towers, where human operators relayed messages from one tower to the next. It beat hand-carried messages hands down.
1854 - [...]