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A few months ago my mother was cleaning the home of grannie who died, and there it was found. An old cookbook, handwritten by grannie, the book it self had a stamp on it (as in caved in leather) that it was made in 1910. from the words of my grandfather this book was given to grandmama by grand grandma.
The mindblowing thing is that this handwriting book which survived both world wars, the fall of communism and the turmoil afterwards, still has easier to follow instructions than most recipes today I see, also no about me and my life section
https://justtherecipe.com/ <-- pretty good scraper that removes all the mommy blog fluff
The one time you might have wanted a touch of personal trivia with your goulash recipe… Good grief!
Ironic that you didn’t post a recipe and only an about me and my life section.
Sharks are older than the North Star. (450mya vs. 70mya)
Sharks are older than trees. (450mya vs 390mya)
There was a 20 million year window, in which dead trees just piled up. Nothing could digest the lignin. This is how germany’s brown coal reserves came to be.
The sharks thing actually leads to another fun fact:
Sharks are older than some of the north star, as the noth star is actually a binary star system next to a solo star. I forget what part it’s actually older than, so here’s the source.
I like this one (not mine):
- The samurai were abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji restoration in 1867
- The first ever fax machine, the “printing telegraph”, was invented in 1843
- Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865
=> There was a 22 year window in which samurais could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines
And they could’ve done it from french submarines.
And still they didn’t warn him
Human beings have been around, in their current state of intellectual capacity for well over 100,000 years.
Looking at all that we’ve accomplished in just the last 10,000 years of known history…it is not unreasonable to assume that we could have accomplished just as much several times over already…but for whatever reason the knowledge of those accomplishments have been repeatedly erased from history.
@Archangel1313@lemmy.ca Look into Islamic scolars, a lot of scientific discoveries done in Europe after the middle ages were made hundreds of years earlier by them. Then I guess their dark ages started, making a lot of knowledge “lost”. On te other hand, you should keep in mind two things, the first is that knowledge is incremental, everything we know is built on previous knowledge. The other is that while humans were around a long time, they were not in the big numbers of today. As a consequence they didn’t need farming, they could always travel further to new lands for finding food and shelter.
The Appalachian Mountains are older than trees, dinosaurs, the Atlantic Ocean, and Pangea
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze
country road… … take me home…
