What questions do you have about stuff from History, or am I the only one?

[EverySongbirdSays]

Hi all, HQ here. We're moving this thread over to History Club now where Songbird will be starting a Part 2 thread for more History quizzical shenanigans

The main history thing I've been pondering for the last couple of days since the weather shifted is the history of clothes.

So... how did Early Man manage in the winter, how did they make clothes out of animal skin?

After that, I understand that clothes production as we know it today began with the industrial revolution.

But how did people manage for clothes you know before we had cotton or machinery

How/when did we realise you could knit wool to make a jumper?

I'm sorry if it's a bit of a stupid question

Has anyone got any stupid questions I might know the answer to ?

There is a History Club! This thread is a perfect fit!

I also think it'll stay live longer in history as classics has an element of "completeness" IMO whilst this is ongoing

It is a good fit, actually. If only more people knew where the Heck that was/visited it. Still........

But it will show in active threads if people keep posting on it.

It would be fine for this thread to go to Classics as it will very shortly be full and not be able to receive any new posts anyway, it's where Part Two should go really. I don't mind where they put this to preserve it.

Good point Huck

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/history_club

For the second thread, I'd be tempted to try it in thevHistory

Sorry - I was interrupted.

I'd be tempted to try it in the History Club and see how it did and whether posters were happy with it there. The decision could always be revisited.......

Oh, why not ...

here's a history mystery ...

How on earth was this filmed ?

www.dailymotion.com/video/x17lrm0_james-burke-classic-the-famous-rocket-takeoff-scene_webcam

Yes, ok, I'll get part 2 up soon, after my tea/pointless

Ah. It's an 'Our (German) scientists are better than your (German) scientists'.

I'll finish viewing after supper.

History for this thread and for Part II (possibly pinned, if that's not too much to ask...)

I don't know how to pin. But I've just chatted to Alice and this thread and its currently being created sequel will now be in history.

The Historical Ponderings Society

Ride your horses this way, and hand your cloaks and swords to the squire at the moat.

Oysters were cheap as chips, hence traditional recipes like beef and oyster pie. It wasn't a luxury dish then, the oysters were padding out the expensive beef. The shells were also used as a form of damp proof course when building. I have a layer of oyster shells under my exterior walls.
Typhoid is Salmonella Typhii, it can infect the fall bladder without causing illness, creating a symptomless carrier - think typhoid Mary.
Distemper most likely to be diphtheria.
Cheese is coagulated with rennet but also fermented with lactic acid bacteria, so much lower lactose content than milk and more digestible. Also keeps well due to lower pH from the lactic acid (which also kills off any nasties in the milk).
The USA had terrible problems with milk borne illness in 1800s due to the conditions that cattle were kept in, in the "brewery dairies" .

Oh, and glass. I visited the Kremlin Armoury a few years ago. The Imperial carriages had windows made from sheets of rock crystal as Russia didn't make glass.

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Re surnames. My maternal side of the family (mum's mum) surname was Paull. But this is apparently a Jewish surname (because of Paul?). Anyway they were supposedly French Jewish immigrants, tailors sometime in Victorian times who settled in Somerset and then gradually came to London. Great grandad Paull was a tallyman and his daughter (my nana) found it easy to get jobs eg running arcades in Brixton or working for Lord Mishcon (when he was defending Ruth Ellis and running a law firm in Brixton) they employed her due to her surname of Paull, thought she was Jewish (she had a very Jewish nose, refused to wear dangly earrings as she said it made her look more Jewish) but she never practised Judaism, was brought up Anglican and seemed to say that "being Jewish" was not great in those days...

I've got a French friend from Calais who looks very Viking with blonde hair but is short.

I heard a theory once that in the bible when it refers to washing mens feet it's actually a euphemism for blow jobs.... Anyone have any idea if that's true or not?

OMG I hope not, my father had his feet washed in church for ..er something, the priest did the washing - I am NOT going to discuss this with my father.

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Has anyone ever analysed royal bones for DNA? (Is such a thing even possible?)

I seem to recall that it was undertaken for the Russian Royal family. Philip was the donor, I believe.

what a great thread... hoping it kicks off again