Christmas trees, originally a German custom, became popular when German immigrants came to America, and when Queen Victoria's German husband, Prince Albert, put up Christmas trees for the royal family. Over time, the fad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/How-We-Got-Artificial-Christmas-Trees/With his series Lost in the Pond, Laurence Brown has made a career of comparing the place he grew up in, the UK, with the United States, where he has lived for the past fifteen years or so. Both places celebrate Christma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/Laurence-Brown-Discovers-American-Christmas-Songs/In colonial America, people drank way more alcohol than would be considered safe today. They rode horses instead of driving cars, the water wasn't all that safe, and alcohol eases pains that medical practices couldn't he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/George-Washingtons-High-Octane-Eggnog/Eun Seo-ran (pronounced OON-SAW-RAHN), 44, met her best friend, Lee Eo-rie (pronounced EE-AW-REE), 38, back in 2016 after they had both moved to the Jeolla region of South Korea, wanting to escape the stresses of city li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/She-Adopted-Her-Adult-Friend-So-They-Can-Become-Family/<p>Math can be fun, and there are some interesting bits of math trivia that we all can appreciate. Just like the one shared by Snehal Shekatkar, a reader of Futility Closet, which states that <a href=&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/17-Numbers-Whose-Prime-Factors-Add-Up-to-17/Ed Emberley has been drawing and making art for children's picture books for six decades now. Some of his work include instructional drawing books, inspired by his belief that everyone can learn to draw.In his drawing bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/Ed-Emberley-on-Drawing-Christmas-1986/Born the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice should have lived a life of comfort and luxury. However, her life was anything but. From the moment she was born, she endured nothing but tragedy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/The-Tragic-Fate-of-Princess-Alice-of-the-United-Kingdom/Though it was a great relief that the Allied Forces won WWII, the events that followed may be less so. The four leaders of the Allied Forces -Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Chiang Kai-Shek-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/23/The-Four-Policemen-How-Franklin-Roosevelt-Envisioned-the-Post-War-World/During the era of absolute monarchy and the divine right, members of the nobility were untouchable. It was considered a punishable offense to lay a hand on nobles. At the same time, corporal punishment was still being im...
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