Mighty Rome decided that the system in place was just to difficult to manage and the Romans needed something that would become world wide in use, so they set to work make a calendar that would be used throughout their whole empire.
Entertainment
Marie Higgs – You Have Won!
We have been researching these scams now for more than two years and we have yet to come across one that is bona fide in other words for real.
Amusing Anthology
A little collection of jokes, facts and funnies from Marie Higgs.
Marie Higgs – How Deep is the Ocean?
The primative man discovered he could fish in deeper water when he placed himselfon a tree trunk and ventured out into the deep water. Needing some place to put his catch he hollowed out his log then added a paddle to guide his craft where he wanted to go
Sliding Into The Past
We've got a new gizmo at our place - something that converts old 35mm slides and negatives to digital format. Genius!
Marie Higgs – Have You Ever Wondered?
A Christmas Poem from Marie Higgs.
Flying 1950s Style
When I wrote about the glamour years at Pan Am (the airline) recently someone pointed me to the great old planes you can see at Motat, Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology.
PanAm
Out of America's TV factory comes the latest hot show, Pan Am, inspired by that long-ago time in aviation when flying was glamorous and people dressed up to get on a plane.
Did You Hear?
Auckland was a humming town in 1880s. Your ancestors flirted and laughed and gossiped when they weren't being outraged and appalled. Some things were just too "utterly utter", as they used to say back then.
Taps
It all began, reportedly, during the American Civil War, Union Captain Robert Ellicombe, with his men were camped near Harrison's Landing in Virginia, with the Confederate Army on the other side of the narrow strip of land.