History Jokes, Short Funny Stories and Famous Anecdotes 2012-02-05T09:43:32Z History Jokes and Funny Stories Copyright 2012, History Jokes and Funny Stories SPHPBLOG Trial by combat between a dog and his master's murderer

The picture represents the famous trial by combat between the dog "Dragon" and the Chevalier Richard Macaire, the murderer of its master, Aubri de Mondidier, which occurred in the year 1371. The assassination took place in the Forest of Bondy, and the dog not only showed the spot in the forest where the body of his master was buried, but singled out the murderer. The King granted a judicial combat between the dog and the suspected man, in which the dog came off completely victorious. ]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry111205-180248 2011-12-05T00:00:00Z 2011-12-05T00:00:00Z Shaving mill (18th century invention)



This is a remarkable 18th century invention called a shaving mill. Up to 60 men can get a clean shave in just one minute! It may seem impractical at first, but imagine if you had a garrison of soldiers? ]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry111201-175959 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z Doctors and teachers
Athenaeus, in Wise Men at Dinner says: If there were no doctors, there would be nothing more stupid than teachers. ]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry101128-181259 2010-11-28T00:00:00Z 2010-11-28T00:00:00Z Demotivational quote from Epictetus
Epictetus, Discourses. Book IV

Interestingly, the second part of this quote is a lot more practical, when not fraught with the burden of a philosophical analogy. ]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry100825-121149 2010-08-25T00:00:00Z 2010-08-25T00:00:00Z Make him laugh http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry100817-142705 2010-08-17T00:00:00Z 2010-08-17T00:00:00Z Cossack Logic http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry100412-171949 2010-04-12T00:00:00Z 2010-04-12T00:00:00Z Matters of religion http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry100408-182713 2010-04-08T00:00:00Z 2010-04-08T00:00:00Z Famous quote about the British Empire with a clever addendum
From "The Jest Book"]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry100303-234558 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z Ted Williams - baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
Ted Williams was an avid fisherman and was very knowledgable on the subject. He once told a Boston sportswriter that there was noone who knew more about fishing than he did. The writer replied, "Sure there is. God, who made the fish." "Yeah, all right," conceded Williams. "But you had to go pretty far back."]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090520-204147 2009-05-20T00:00:00Z 2009-05-20T00:00:00Z Mae West-American actress (1930's)
When asked how she was so familiar with the ways of men, Mae West responded, "Baby, I went to night school".]]> http://history.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry090520-204051 2009-05-20T00:00:00Z 2009-05-20T00:00:00Z