Oldest remaining chessmen |
They were found in the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides during 1831. They weren't 32, but 93. That makes learned people believe that they had belonged to a chessmen tradesman or a chessmen maker, who hid...
Posted by Vadstena on Sun, 04 May 2008 11:38:00 PST |
Vadstena summer program |
We've put up the opening nights now, as you can see. Most interesting is perhaps the first performance ever of Japanese composer Osada's Four Nights of Dream. Queen Christina from last year, which laz...
Posted by Vadstena on Sun, 04 May 2008 11:26:00 PST |
The Mongolian mission |
Whatever you think of missionaries, you can't help to get impressed by these people. OK, they worked there for 50 years and more. During that period, about 30-40 Mongols were "saved". That wasn't what...
Posted by Vadstena on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:37:00 PST |
The wolf question |
Until 1965 you got payed for shooting wolves in Sweden. But that year only eight of them remained in the whole country, so finally, they were preserved.That really was in the last moment, but they sur...
Posted by Vadstena on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:55:00 PST |
Woytek, the bear soldier |
He really was a bear...and a soldier. Polish troops in Iran adopted him in 1943. They brought him to the Italian battlefields, there he got his name and also rank and number.Woytek became a hero durin...
Posted by Vadstena on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:02:00 PST |
Raymond Chandlers wife |
They married in 1924. He was 35, she was 53, but probably Raymond wasn’t aware of it. He thought she maybe was just 42.Because Cissy was a woman of vanity. She had been a woman surrounded by men...
Posted by Vadstena on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:42:00 PST |
The hobo |
He, and it was mostly a he, was no tramp or bum. He was a worker who travelled from town to town (or sometimes not even a town) for work during the great explotation of America. Chaplin in his movies ...
Posted by Vadstena on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:29:00 PST |
A forgotten hero? |
In 1893, Dr. Thmas Allinson wrote some amazing things. In his opinion, smoking was bad for your health!
The medical establishment didn't agree. They in fact recommended their patients to smoke cigars,...
Posted by Vadstena on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:46:00 PST |
John Cage extremism |
This composer is famous for many things. And two of them are very excentric. For example his piano piece from 1952, 4'33''. It's nothing but a big pause. You don't touch the piano. You should be extre...
Posted by Vadstena on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:42:00 PST |
The Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883 |
That meant that "non-politicans" could start donate money in full scale to political campaigns in the US. Before that, the campaigns had mostly been financed by taxes on the federal officials wages.
T...
Posted by Vadstena on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:04:00 PST |
