Lipstick

 29 July is National Lipstick Day. The idea of reddening your lips is very old but a man named Maurice Levy invented lipstick push-up sticks in tubes in 1915. This is my history of make up.

The Whitechapel Murders

 A random thought: I watched an interview of the son of one of Peter Sutcliffe’s victims. It was very moving. He objects to the title ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ because it glamourises the murderer. I decided to stop using the name ‘Jack the Ripper’. It was probably invented by a journalist who wrote an anonymous letter pretending to be the murderer. I feel it glamourises the murderer so in future I am going to call him the Whitechapel murderer.

Sutcliffe was a nobody who only achieved fame or notoriety by killing innocent people. The Whitechapel murderer was almost certainly the same. If people passed him in the street they probably wouldn’t have given him a second glance. The banality of evil. We need to stop glamourising assholes. That is my two cents.

Did 9 out ot f 10 people really die before they were 40?

A look at the absurd claim that in the past 9 out of 10 people died before the age of 40  

The French landed on the Isle of Wight in 1545

 A blog post about the French landing on the Isle of Wight in 1545 https://maryrose.org/blog/historical-stories/the-tudor-militia/ 

Dead Ringer

 I look at myths about the phrases dead ringer and saved by the bell. Neither has anything to do with premature burial. 

A myth about spices

 A myth about spices in the Middle Ages

Were people in the past really dirty?

 I made a video to debunk the myth that people in the past were dirty and seldom washed 

Nunavut Day

 9 July is Nunavut Day (Nunavut is a territory of Canada created in 1999). Facts about Nunavut.

Midsummers Day

 A look at the folklore of Midsummer's Day