In my last post I discussed Steven Johnson’s book How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, and I couldn’t resist another post about it. It’s such a cool book, if you haven’t read it.
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The Ancient Chinese mounted polished brass on the outside of their doors, in the hope that evil spirits would frighten themselves away.
Source: Reader’s Digest Everyday Life Through the Ages
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Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400) was buried in what is now the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey, but not because he had written Canterbury Tales. He was granted a plot for being “Clerk of Works” to the palace of Westminster.