Category: Omnibit

William of Newburgh was one of the most esteemed and learned men of the Middle Ages.

While his reputation is based on his histories, he delved into other matters.

Like zombies.

“It would not be easy to believe that the corpses of the dead should sally (I know not by what agency) from their graves,” he wrote. “And should wander about to the terror or destruction of the living, and again return to the tomb, which of its own accord spontaneously opened to receive them, did not frequent examples, occurring in our own times, suffice to establish this fact, to the truth of which there is abundant testimony.”

And the poor people back then didn’t even have shotguns to shoot them in the head.

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Edward Franklin Albee III, the favored playwright of 1960s academics, was the adopted grandson of Edward Franklin Albee II. Albee II ran vaudeville theaters.

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Professional cooks don’t use Teflon pans. They are too fragile. The pros use stainless steel and cast iron.

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Walmart is the largest employer in 20 states.

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A U.S. dollar bill lasts 5.8 years on the average.

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Mountain Dew can dissolve mice.

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Pennsylvania and Texas are the only states that allow barbers to use traditional straight-razors.

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Yes Miranda, there is a Good King Wenceslas. The Bohemian ruler is buried in Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague.

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Life begins at 40? That was the title of the best selling non-fiction book in 1933 from which we get the saying.  It’s author was Walter Boughton Pitkin. When he was born in 1878 the life expectancy was 40. When he wrote the book it had risen to 60.

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The first Christmas in the Philippines was celebrated about 1300 AD. This would be about 200 years before Ferdinand Magellan discovered the country for the western world.