In 1910, Pope Pius X reestablished an ancient Catholic Church law. He lowered the age for First Communion to seven years. He believed that this was the “age of discretion”, the age at which children begin to reason. The Catholic Church requires First Confession to precede First Communion. Also, the child should have meet all other requirements including attending catechism.
My daughter is taking American History at the High School, so I am relearning a lot about our history. One thing I came across was the Liberty Party.
The Liberty Party was formed in the 1840s and was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. Their first presidential candidate was James G. Birney from Kentucky (he was a former slaveholder) in 1840 and 1844. In 1840, Birney received only 6,797 votes, but in the 1844 election he received 62,103 votes (2.3% of the popular vote).
In 1848, the Liberty Party met with others and ended up forming the Free Soil Party which later merged with the Republican party in 1854. In 1849, Salmon P. Chase was nominated from the Free Soil Party as a Senate candidate from Ohio and won that seat. In 1855, he won the governorship of Ohio.
I remember when the movie Jaws first came out. We were so afraid to go in the water at the beaches in Southern California! All you heard about that summer is Great White Shark attacks. I found this video on Youtube after thinking about taking Outer Banks vacations. I didn’t realize that you could find Great Whites there too! Now, I am going to be afraid to go in the water again.
While I would rather have the sleek look of Grohe faucets in my home, antique faucets are making a comeback. It seems that old vintage items still have their place in the home. I have seen antique tubs and sinks rescued from salvage yards, restored and placed in million dollar homes.
I remember seeing this antique handles in my Great Aunt’s home. Her home had the most beautiful wood finishes and antique fixtures.
Back in the 1960s, Westinghouse thought they would get into the contemporary furniture feel by creating a refrigerator that had custom panels. You could choose from Rattan, Supreme Walnut, Catawba Cherry, Astro-Glo Bronze and Surftex Black. Plus, you could make your own panels by measuring your refrigerator and using wallpaper or other paper to “customize” your look. I must say, most of these looks were really ugly. Here is the promotional video for the custom panels:
After one of my sites got hacked a couple months ago, I have been working on doing an online backup of each of my sites. This has caused my blogging to be decreased, but will be back soon.
I tried to find the source of the statement “and now back to your regularly scheduled programming” bet have not had much success yet. Was it introduced on television first, or was the phrase used on radio? I will search some more and come back with an answer!
Before 1840, there wasn’t an official dental school in the United States. Before this time there was many a man that decided to be a dentist and would just hang up a sign to state the fact.
The first official dental school was opened in Baltimore, Maryland in 1840 and was followed by the Philadelphia Dental College in 1863 and Temple University in 1907.
There are now dental schools around the world and you will find people traveling to get dental implants Mexico and other countries to find cheaper dental work.
While we will celebrate with our traditional Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, you need to know that Thanksgiving did not become an annual feast until 1863. It became an official federal holiday in 1941.
According to Wikipedia:
The First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians. The traditional Thanksgiving menu often features turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. Americans may eat these foods on modern day Thanksgiving, but the first feast did not consist of these items. On the first feast turkey was any type of fowl that the pilgrims hunted. Pumpkin pie wasn’t on the menu because there were no ovens for baking, but they did have boiled pumpkin. Cranberries weren’t introduced at this time. Due to the diminishing supply of flour there was no bread of any kind. The foods included in the first feast included duck, geese, venison, fish, lobster, clams, swan, berries, dried fruit, pumpkin, squash, and many more vegetables.
If you have ever considered booking Outer Banks vacation rentals, make a point of seeing the wild horses. The Outer Banks of North Carolina is one of the few places that you can see wild mustangs roaming free. These mustangs are descendants of the Spanish mustangs which arrived almost 500 years ago.
Once numbering in the 1000s, these horses roam the full length of the Outer Banks, from Shackleford Banks, all along Core Banks, Ocracoke, Hatteras, and on northward beyond Corolla on Currituck Banks. They are protected by state and federal laws.
With all the take about how deadly the swine flu is, it is hard not to remember the flu pandemic of 1918. This flu spread to nearly every part of the world and at a time when vaccines, air filters and hygiene were not quite as good as they are today.
This flu was also a subtype of H1N1 (as is the swine flu). Most of its victims were young healthy adults as opposed to children, the elderly and weakened patients as it is with other flu strains. The pandemic lasted for March 1918 to June 1920. It spread to even remote places likes the Arctic and Pacific Islands. The best estimate for the number of deaths is 50 million, but could be as high as 100 million. At the time, this was 3% of the world’s population. Approximately 500 million people were infected. About 10 – 20% of those infected died.
Today, we have much better medical resources and this flu may not have caused as many deaths today.
