• History of British Royal Family,  Royal History

    The Queen, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Was Born

    A Queen Is Born On April 21, 1926, the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) welcomed their daughter Elizabeth Alexandra Mary to the world. Shortly after, the family was photographed with baby Elizabeth cloaked in a christening robe that had been in the royal family for generations.

  • Royal History

    Royal Wedding

    Wedding program for Prince Charles and Diana.pdf Prince Charles of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer’s royal wedding ceremony took place on July 29, 1981. Royal Programme, a detailed, 25-page script of the day, for 50 pence, the cost at that time.

  • Routes to North Pole
    America,  Historical Map,  North Pole

    Discovery of the North Pole

    There is controversy over who the true discoverer of the North Pole really is. There is no doubt, however, that Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) American explorer and physician, along with another American explorer, Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920), both claimed (though separately achieved) to have  reached the ultimate unconquered destination of the era; the frozen unknown at the geographic north point of  the Earth’s axis of rotation, where children imagine Santa Claus lives. (A caveat is not to confuse geographic north with magnetic north). We are referring to the discovery of geographic north. Featured the detailed map showing Cook…

  • America

    History of the American Birthday Celebration

    Birthday celebrations in America crossed over the line between a few rich and celebrated individuals to the rest of us, sometime around 1860 – 1880. We can thank two factors for this change in emphasis. Children became seen less for their economic necessity, as workers, and valued more emotionally, as individuals and as beloved family members. Therefore, worthy of celebration for just being alive. Also, the production of household and workplace clocks became widespread, quite a change from the rare clock of the preindustrial period. The clock along with the time focus of factory work and the like, street cars etc., made Americans much more time conscious. Because of these…