100 Historical Things, Number 52

Finally I have come back with the answers to the historical quiz I posted a while back. Sorry for the delay! The answers are below, and I'll allow you to check your own results by re-visiting the post with the poll ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 50

Look, I do exist! And as promised I come bearing a history quiz for the 50th in my 100 Historical Things series of posts.

The last quiz (post 25) involved ascribing an exact date (well, just the year) to a series of historical events. For this one, I just want you to identify the century.

Poll History Quiz the SecondThese things always ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 29

Apologies for leaving it so long to post the answers to the Historical Dates Quiz I had previously posted! Here they are...

In what year was the legendary founding of Rome?

> Traditionally it is 753 BC (though they took a while to settle on it, and there's no reason to think that it is literally true!). Kudos to xwingace ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 25I thought that every 25 posts I would do a quiz for people. I was going to do dates right through to the 20th C, but then I discovered there's a limit on the number of elements you can have in a poll, so I stopped around the time when we stop talking about the medieval period and start talking modern history (which ( Read more... )

Just dropping by the world of social media to say ( Read more... )

In a vain attempt to have a break from work for a minute, I'll tell you what I'm enjoying fandom-wise at the moment.

First there's the aforementioned children's TV show Ooglies (if you think marching mushrooms with eyes going 'Ooogah!' are as funny as I do, you'll love it - a lot of it's quite clever and there are film references).

Then there's ( Read more... )

Cranford last night was wonderful as always. No spoilers, but if you're a fan of pleasant, heart-warming period drama, this is for you, even if you think it isn't.

Tonight there's the first part of a new adaptation of Day of the Triffids (BBC1 9pm) - may be good, but I'm not sure if I'll watch ( Read more... )

There's this awesome Dr Who Christmas quiz here, if you like that sort of thing :)

(I do!)

Happy Agincourt Day ( Read more... )

1) Sarah Jane: Continuing to be wonderful, and I *think* I like Rani. My only qualm is that she seems more confident and effortlessly pretty than Maria (who is very pretty, but comes across as a more believable teenager to me - certainly as a teenager I would have identified with her much more than with Rani). Sadly clowns aren't scary, but I think ( Read more... )