When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. Notes on the Origin of the * Symbol Aristarchus of Samothrace (220-143 BCE) first used an asterisk symbol when editing Homer in the second century BCE. Aristarchus’ asterisks have …
Monthly Archives: August 2023
You Talk Funny
So, I was in Center City the other day as a pre-revolutionary “loyal subject of the crown” when a group of school kids, who being teenagers know everything…, when one of them starts snarking in a cockney accent that I don’t talk like a Britton. Let’s set the record straight. People from Philadelphia, DON’T speak …
Gunpowder TREASON and plot
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Historical Tidbits — Robbing the First Bank of the United States
When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. Robbing the First Bank of the United States In 1789, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton hammered out a great compromise that would create our nations first federal bank. Under …
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Michael Carver -- Historical Interpreter/Reenactor 