Tag Archives: history

A New Turn for the Stop Sign

Posted on April 21, 2012 by brushedwithmystery

If you come to a red octagonal sign standing on a post by the side of a road, chances are you will know what to do without even knowing the language. The stop sign is an international symbol.  How did … Continue reading →

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The Titanic:The Tragic Story of a Young Canadian Family

Posted on April 9, 2012 by brushedwithmystery

They met on a train heading to Montreal.  He was 25 and she was 21, by the end of the year they were married. It sounds like a beautiful romance, sadly enough it would end in tragedy. Hudson Joshua Creighton … Continue reading →

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The Titanic: Wallace Hartley’s Violin

Posted on April 8, 2012 by brushedwithmystery

Their story is the stuff of legends: while surrounded by chaos, human instinct said they should escape to save their own life, eight musicians serenaded the passengers with “Nearer My God to Thee,” as the ship broke in two and … Continue reading →

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The Jester: A Historical Political Commentator and Cupid

Posted on April 6, 2012 by brushedwithmystery

The Jester was the entertainer of the monarchy: the one who could say what others feared saying. A foil for the aristocracy, he would carry a false scepter in his hands called a bauble that was covered in bells or … Continue reading →

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The Chapel of the Bones: Remembering Death

Posted on March 18, 2012 by brushedwithmystery

With one glance at a photo, you would imagine that the space was created by a morbid tyrant aristocrat in centuries past; a vaulted space, lined ceiling to floor in skeletons that are used as adornment. A man and an … Continue reading →

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