Tibetan Prayer Flags
The Tibetan Buddhist tradition of colorful flags spreading prayers & mantras on the wind.| oddathenaeum.com
The Tibetan Buddhist tradition of colorful flags spreading prayers & mantras on the wind.| oddathenaeum.com
A part of the long history of harps in Ireland, the Irish coat of arms and the Guinness logo are modeled after the same harp at Trinity College. The harp has been a part of Irish culture & mythology for millennia. The Irish goddess/mortal woman Cana Cludhmor (aka Canola) is said to have fallen asleep […]|
Peatlands are beneficial watery environments (… with the occasional human body hidden away).| oddathenaeum.com
The plastic device that, when the can is opened and the pressure drops, helps your canned Guinness taste more like draft Guinness. Inside a can of Guinness is a plastic object, a “widget”. It’s more noticeable after the can is empty and it rattles around. The “smoothifier”, as called by Guinness, is a ping pong […]|
Candy hearts got their start as medicinal lozenges in Boston. The Valentine’s Day tradition of little candy hearts began in 19th century New England. In 1847 Boston pharmacist Oliver Chase created a machine to efficiently produce throat lozenges. At the time the standard process to create a lozenge was to grind medicine & sugar by […]|
The pop culture movement of leisure, escapism, and fantasy that’s light on authenticity.| oddathenaeum.com
The timeless appeal of the world’s oldest customer complaint. Around 1750 BCE a customer named Nanni was purchasing copper ingots from Ea-nasir, a Mesopotamian copper dealer. However, Ea-nasir tried to give Nanni poorer quality ingots than he had ordered. After the fact Nanni wrote an angry cuneiform complaint letter and sent it to Ea-nasir. It […]|
Instead of being a story of rock hubris, Van Halen’s no brown M&Ms clause was a clever indicator of potential danger.| oddathenaeum.com
The Christmas carol about the 12 days after Christmas that is mostly full of birds.| oddathenaeum.com
