by David West | Nov 25, 2025 | News
Officially, the Cudgel War began in Ostrobothnia with an attack by peasants on Isokyrö’s church on the 25th of November 1596. The Cudgel War, also known as the Club War, was a peasant uprising that occurred in Finland between 1596 and 1597, during the period...
by David West | Nov 24, 2025 | News
Two events caught my attention for the 24th of November. One was the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859. It profoundly shaped how we view genesis, with or without a capital G. But I have already posted about Darwin, so I chose Genghis...
by David West | Nov 23, 2025 | News
Wikipedia tells me that on the 23rd of November, 534 BC, Thespis of Icarius became the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage. This information comes to us via Aristotle. Thespis of Icarius, also known simply as Thespis, is widely celebrated in the...
by David West | Nov 22, 2025 | News
On the 22nd of November, 1718, the notorious pirate Blackbeard was killed when Lieutenant Robert Maynard, commanding HMS Pearl, boarded Blackbeard’s ship. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is one of history’s most notorious pirates. His name became synonymous...
by David West | Nov 21, 2025 | News
Ole Rømer On the 21st of November, 1676, Ole Rømer presented the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. Ole Rømer (1644–1710) was a Danish astronomer whose work in the late seventeenth century provided the first quantitative evidence that light travels...
