by david allan van nostrand | Apr 20, 2026 | Inventions, The Guild System, The Wayback Machine, The world around us
Like so many things from the past, the pretzel comes equipped with lots of stories of how it came to be and what it symbolizes. The favorite story of most pretzel historians features a 7th century Italian monk who designed a cracker for his students. As a reward for...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 13, 2025 | Case Study, The Guild System
Leonardo de Vinci started as an apprentice. So did Benjamin Franklin and Henry Ford. What they learned as apprentices, they applied along their years-long journeys to becoming master craftsmen. Knights Templar says becoming a medieval apprentice was “A rite of...
