THG's Year in Review

In 1891, British humorist Jerome K. Jerome wrote that “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories.”

A Busy Week

To the western mind the crossbow is probably most associated with the middle ages, but its invention predates that era by about 1000 years.

In 1630, a little remembered group of 8 Englishmen became separated from their ship, and were left virtually without equipment and supplies, in one of the world’s harshest environments, to almost certain death.

In the 1270s in what is today Benelux region of Western Europe, disagreements between the Prince-Bishopric of Liege and the County of Namur led to all out war - according to some chronicles, over a single cow.