HOW WAS IT THEN ALLEGEDLY!

HOW WE LIVED 700 YEARS AGO!

* Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled okay by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

* Children were bathed in water already used for bathing and ablutions and were the last in the family. Hence came the saying:"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

* Houses had thick and thatched roofs no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived on the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

* It took as many as 10 days to one month for marriage ceremonies to complete in South Asia if the distance was anything more than 60-70 kms between the bride and bridegrooms house.

* Breads in the west and chappatis in South Asia were divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top.

* If one wants to learn about the social order of the past, look at the chess board and you get to know everything. After the King came the queen, then the Bishop followed by warriors, cavalrymen on horses and elephants and then the soldiers.

History isn't all that boring! Is it?

KNOW WORDS OF WISDOM

Q. Who said this:``Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen'' ?

A. Albert Einstien.


Q. Who said:``In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher'' ?

A. Dalai Lama.


Q. Who said this: ``Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't'' ?

A. Richard Bach.

Q. Who said:``I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day'' ?

A. EB White.

Q. Who said this:``If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves'' ?

A. Carl Jung.

Q. Who said:``Live out of your imagination, not your history'' ?

A. Stephen Covey.

Q. Who said:``There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy'' ?

A. Friedrich Nietzsche.

Q. Who said:``When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction ''?

A. Steven Wright.

Q. Who said:``Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science'' ?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Q. Who said: ``Science does not know it's debt to imagination'' ?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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THREE HINTS !

Q. Name the first president ever to be born in a civil hospital, a nuclear physicist and a speed reader who could read 2,000 words a minute, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2002 ?

A. Jimmy Carter.

Q. Name the American president who has no living heirs; was a skilled wrestler and days before his death he had a dream about it ?

A. Abrahm Lincoln.

Q. Name the heavyweight boxing champion ;killed about five lakh people in his rule; would eat the meat of his enemies ?

A. Idi Amin.

Q. Name this first black billionairre who was raped at age nine, became pregnant at 14 and her name was changed because the parents couldn't pronounce it ?

A. Oprah Winfrey, Her name was picked up from Bible -- Orpah but the p and r were interchanged because of pronunciation difficulties.

BRAINTEASERS

Q. What colour is saphhire ?

A. Blue.

Q. In cookery, `FOO-YOUNG', is the Chinese-equivalent of which western dish?

A. Omelette.

Q. Name the first author to win the Booker prize twice ?

A. JM Coetzee.

Q. Which university athletics team did Jeffery Archer represent as a member?

A. Oxford.

Q. Name the only person who switched sides from the Kauravas to Pandavas just before the famous battle of Mahabharata commenced ?

A. Yuyutsu.

Q. Which Indian state has the longest coastline ?
A. Gujarat.

Q. Which baseball star has been refered to in the novel `The Old Man And The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway ?

A. Joe Dimaggio.

Q. Who won the men's gold in hockey in 2008 Beijing Olympics ?

A. Germany.

Q. Minsk is the capital city of which country ?

A. Belarus.

Q. Which country was the first to give voting right to women ?

A. New Zealand in 1883, though it was a British colony. First independent country Australia in 1902.