Boredom

The first use of the word boredom in print was in 1852 by the great Charles Dickens. He gave that feeling we get from time to time when all of our surroundings no longer stimulate us a name. I don't know if it's because of what we have available to us today but I could see how someone over a hundred and fifty years ago could quickly grow bored with what is in their immediate surroundings.
But now?

Extremists

To believe in something with all your heart and soul is usually not considered a negative thing. Not unless you take it to extremes.

News Bits number 2

Another week rolls around and a fresh bit of news comes along with it.

Japanese Stabbing Spree

 

Seven Score and Eleven Years Ago

Seven score and eleven years ago the sixteenth president of the United States gave a speech at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is now one of the best known speeches in American History and today marks the 150th anniversary of his speech. What most people don't know is that speech was only over two minutes long and Lincoln was NOT the main speaker at the event.

History Made With Cameras

Now a days there are cameras everywhere. In the streets, banks, in the coffee shop and grocery store to the gas stations and malls. If you're in public you can bet you're somehow, someway being recorded. Most are there to deter criminal activity or to keep an eye on things, just in case. When things that will go down in history happen and are so well recorded and preserved, they are fortunate to have. Most people have a cell phone and on that cell phone they have a camera. This just makes things so much more simple to preserve. But what about the first few?