Category: history

BBC SPORT: ‘Pompey fans wary of share offer’ Pompey fans? Don’t they know Caesar already won?

Black people got the vote in 1870. Women got the vote in 1917. Welsh people got the vote in 2011. Just in case you were wondering where you stood.

The wife showed me a picture of a Gaudi designed building in Barcelona and said “what’s it called?” I couldn’t name it, but it did look Familia.

“I need a Jew” I told my wife today “why” she asked “our new shower system needs testing”

Bonfire night parties. Making it Ok to be drunk and in charge of explosives since 1605.

They should stop teaching history in schools. It’s spoiled the end of loads of movies for me.

The form of the pyramids of Egypt tells us that even in the earliest times, workers had tendency to work less everyday.

When it comes to marriage, I’m very old fashioned and traditional. I have them beheaded if they can’t give birth to a boy.

149 B.C. Frosties breakfast cereal is invented by Alexander the Grrrrrrrreeat

They say those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I didn’t learn a thing from history in school, am I going to start wars and kill millions of Jews?

I will go down with this ship And I won’t put my hands up and surrender There will be no white flag above my door ‘Cause I’m not French, and never will be.

I’ve made lots of little clay models of dinosaurs. They are all from the pleistocene epoch.

You have to admit that the ingenuity and inventiveness of the human race is nothing short of astounding. Look how far we have come. At one time early humans were nomads just walking around naked. Then they invented clothes and learned to build dens in which to live. Then we discovered the wheel and learned […]

What’s got one head and 13 brains?… Peter Sutcliffe’s hammer!

The time when the suffragettes were campaigning for the vote was the only time many women stuck to their diets.