Oddities, curiousities and strangness in history [2]

Yep, she's one of the few people on tv I love watching. I love her dress style too

{{ Pretty much as far as I can tell all her documentaries are on youtube. Ive been watching one a day. }}

cool

That darn ring of stones has been a talking point for so many years so many ideas of why & who & how. Id like to know who decided that certain stone & that colour was the right choice ?
" alright lads, Ive found this lovely stone, great colour, will look a treat once its up, trouble is, Ive only found one & the rest is in bloody Wales , oh well, heave ho boys", & everyone was fine with this ? Oh yeah, we'll drag a ton of stone a 100 miles to where youwant it.

We only know what we think our brain tells us. Its all wev got to go by I guess And its a kind of repititian. If you keep saying Roses are red thats all your brain bucket remembers & is happy with. Going by what this young guy says, what are we not seeing ?

{{ An interesting take on it. In the UK it was largely down to James 1(VI of England) who was big in his early years on going after Witches, and even attended their torture. He seems to have had a change of heart in later life instructing that judges shoul be especially wary of trusting accusations of witchcraft. But witchcraft as a punishable offence by death stayed on the books until 1735 when the Courts viewed witchcraft as 'impossible' but you could still be charged with falsely claiming to be a witch or claiming to have supernatural powers which was still punishable, just no longer by torture and death. It was seen as more like committing fraud.

Only issue Id have with that article is that by the middleages most brewing in Europe was been done in monastries and nunnieries. So while women were still brewing (which they had been the major brewers in history until then) it was largely the Church which took over the commercialisation and selling of ale here. I think the article might understate somewhat the financial interest and profit to be gained from the Church in tarring these women with the name witch.}}

I think the witches hat originated in Wales. The Welsh national costume from the nineteenth century in particular. I have old photos of my relatives in those hats.

{{ Saw this yeterday, an amazing discovery that should add a lot to our knowledge of the time. Especially as it should give us some more information surrounding Ahkenaten, and the first monotheism in known history. }}

{{ We know a suprising little about the circumstances of his new religion however, our how it was reveived by the general populace, not to mention the priests of the other Gods he was getting rid of. In no small part as his successors did all they could to destroy any sign he ever existed, we only have a pieced together outline of that period. }}

exactly, they would press gang men from ports around the world if they lacked sailors, its a bit of a stretch to say the whole population was 'diverse'.

{{ Rather enjoy these history series- History with Kayleigh, easy listening, good info. The host is a lass whose ancestry is a cross between Dutch and Scandinavian, so she looks exactly as you'd expect such a mix to- like a Valkyrie whose chilling after a hard day on the battlefield (though she does do that thing modern lasses seems to do, you know, where they shave their eyebrows off then paint them back on in a dark room with a lump of coal ).
She is currently doing an interesting series on Hominids, well worth your time. }}

ah the 'Instagram Eyebrow' its far too harsh for her face.