Full Video Schmistory: January 29!
Saturday, January 29, 2022
What do Kansas, Mercedes Benz, Edgar Allan Poe and mad King George III all have in common? January 29th, silly!
History Schmistory: January 28. “Dear Horace, I just had a happy accident.”
Friday, January 28, 2022
1754: The first use of the word “serendipity” in the English language is noted in a letter from Horace Walpole to Horace Mann. A letter between Horaces! Walpole said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of”. Mann convinced Walpole to truncate the fledgling term from the original; “Serendipity-doo-dah.”
Serendipity by Nila Sivatheesan, April 7, 2014 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.
History Schmistory: January 28. A Brick is Born!
Friday, January 28, 2022
January 28, 1958. Lego patents its signature brick.
History Schmistory: January 27. “Isn’t the world awesome! Let’s start a club!”
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Cover of the first edition, [public domain]
History Schmistory: January 27. Telegrams Stop.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
January 27, 2006. Western Union discontinues telegram services. Finally.
History Schmistory: January 26. Did you sea that?
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
1911: Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane, executing a flawless landing, a feat that remains much more difficult than it looks.
![By MoD Photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/800px-Curtiss_America_001.jpg)
And here it is…..By MoD Photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
History Schmistory: January 26. ROCK!
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
January 26, 1905. History’s largest diamond discovered!
History Schmistory: January 25. She’s Baaaaaack!
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Nellie Bly, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Nellie_Bly_journalist.jpg [public domain]
Before she set out, her goal was to complete the journey in 75 days. In their brief meeting, Jules Verne himself was quoted as saying “If you do it in 79 days, I shall applaud with both hands. But 75 days -mon Dieu- that would be a miracle.” Try 72, Jules! Phileas Fogg was a pansy! …That’s totally what she said when she got back 🙂
History Schmistory: January 25. Free McCartney!
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
January 25, 1980. Paul McCartney deported from Japan. Avoids prison.
