ANST - Fw: [TY] Trivial Pursuit for the Anachronist III

[Caley Woulfe]

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From: Patricia Hefner <patricia.hefner at worldnet.att.net>
To: TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu <TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 8:38 AM
Subject: [TY] Trivial Pursuit for the Anachronist III


>1040:  According to legend, Earl  Laufric of Mercia (now England's "West
>Country") who lived in Coventry, agrees to abolish a burdensome tax if his
>lady, Godgiva (Godiva) agrees to ride through town naked.
>1113: Founding of St. Nicholas church in Novgorod, one of the earliest
>onion-domed churches
>1218: Danneborg, the oldest national flag in the world, adopted by Denmark
>1341: Francesco Petracha (Petrarch) crowned with a laurel wreath on the
>steps of the capital in Rome on honor of the high quality of his poetry;
>this was a revival of an ancient Roman tradition honoring great poets. This
>is the origin of the modern term "poet laureate"; it's also why, in the
SCA,
>those who excel in the arts and sciences are called Laurels.
>1400: Earliest documentation of the dulcimer
>1431: Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) burned at the stake as a heretic. Jeanne
>came from the town of Domremy on the Meuse River in northeastern France.
Her
>parents were Jacques d'Arc, a prosperous farmer, and  Isabelle Rommee. In
>her part of the Country, it was customary to call daughters the surname of
>their mothers. Thus, the locals called her Jeanne Rommee. When she left
>Domremy for the battlefields, she adopted the name of her father, as people
>in  Orleans and Paris used the father's surname for all of their children.
>1457: Scottish Parliament bans "futeball" (the precursor of both soccer and
>American football) and golf on the grounds that these sports were
>distracting men from practicing the archery needed in the country's
>incessant wars with England. Parliament felt obligated to issue another ban
>in 1471, and in 1491 King James IV issued another decree with pains and
>penalties added. "Futeball and Golfe forbidden: Item, it is status and
>ordainit that in ne place of the realme there be usit t futeball, golfe, or
>other sik unprofitable sports". This didn't keep records of money spent on
>the royal golf balls off the Lord High Treasurer's rolls! So old is
>hypocrisy.
>1470: First French printing press set up at the Sorbonne in  Paris
>1489: The s symbols + and - come into use in mathematics.
>1520: Henry VIII builds bowling lanes in his Whitehall residence. In
Europe,
>this sport had its origin in early medieval Germany, where it was part of a
>religious ritual. Medieval Germans carried clubs (Old German "kegel") even
>to church. The priests of the Catholic Church, when giving them their
>religious instruction, told the peasants that  the clubs resprented evil,
>and possibly even Satan In the ritual, the club was placed in a corner; and
>the peasant rolled a large stone  at it. If he knocked the club down, he
was
>pra ised; it he missed, he was told to improve his faith and morals.
>    Soon the priests themselves developed an interest in trying to knock
>down the clubs and took turns trying. When others began to imitate them, a
>new sport was born. Village gatherings and celebrations in Germany always
>featured bowling. The sport spread to other countries; it was so popular in
>England that in 1386 it was banned because  King Edward III feared that the
>sport was a distraction f rom the practice of archery. He was then fighting
>the Hundred Years' War against France. Nonetheless, the sport became more,
>not less, popular in England.
>1581: Tulips from the Middle East first come to Western Europe.
>
>There you have it!
>
>Isabelle
>
>patricia.hefner at worldnet.att.net
>
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