London was the first city to benefit from an urban service when one William Dockwra set up his Penny Post in 1680. Striking features of the scheme were that letters were prepaid and stamped to indicate place of posting and Read more…
Isn’t Texas basically North Dakota? Today on a really good horse you could get to about 50 miles in a day. More realistically about 30. The UK is about 700 miles end to end so it would take at least Read more…
Rock & Chips Trigger went to school with Del, Boycie, Denzel Tulser, Roy Slater and Jumbo Mills. Due to his haircut he later gained the nickname “Trigger” as his haircut made him look like a horse. Who is Trigger named Read more…
Lucky flowers: Horse Year Zodiac Years Calendar Type of Horse 1978 February 7, 1978 – January 27, 1979 Earth Horse 1990 January 27, 1990 – February 14, 1991 Gold Horse 2002 February 12, 2002 – February 18, 2003 Water Horse Read more…
Trojan horse, huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Trojan horse during the Trojan horse. The horse was built by Epeius, a master carpenter and pugilist. Why did the Greeks use a wooden horse? The Read more…
the Trojan War. Trojan horse, huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Trojan horse during the Trojan horse. Was there a wooden horse in the Trojan War? But was it just a myth? Probably, says Read more…
Was Odysseus the one who planned the Trojan horse, in the Trojan War? Yes, it was Odysseus who conceived a plan for the Achaians (Greeks) to get inside the walled city of Troy. Who actually won the Trojan War? The Read more…
The horse was built by Epeius, a master carpenter and pugilist. The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena Read more…
Diomedes. In classical Greek mythology, Hercules is assigned twelve superhuman labors to complete. The eighth of these is to capture the man-eating horses of Diomedes, king of Thrace. In most accounts, Hercules subdues and steals the mares, killing Diomedes and Read more…
The main ancient source for the story still extant is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. What two poems are about the Trojan War? The two most famous, for having been preserved complete, Read more…