by david allan van nostrand | Feb 9, 2026 | Human Behavior, Psychology, The world around us, Trivia
The big event of the 14th century was the Black Plague. After killing off half the population of Europe, the Black Death (its street name) left the other half living with hunger, fear, and poverty. Regular people had to make do with scraps while the elites lived in...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 4, 2024 | Americana, The Wayback Machine, Trivia
The 2024 Presidential Dog Challenge Instead of adding to the miles-high piles of articles about the election, yet still wanting to keep things presidential, I started out to write an article about dogs the United States presidents have owned. This weekend, I was doing...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 24, 2022 | The Wayback Machine, The world around us, Trivia
Eric Arthur Blair was born the son of an opium agent in Bengal, India in 1903 and brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery, what he called lower-upper-middle class. As a child he was known for his intellectual brilliance and for being withdrawn, morose and...
