QUESTION: How did Tudor aristocrats keep away from soiling their magnificent and really costly clothes whereas consuming?
There’s an excessive amount of mythology surrounding Tudor consuming habits. It’s extensively believed that, in Henry VIII’s time, it was good manners to chuck lamb bones over one’s shoulder for the greyhounds to eat.
This notion largely comes from movie studios, particularly Charles Laughton’s depiction of Henry in The Non-public Life Of Henry VIII (1933).
Whereas it is true that after a extreme jousting accident in 1536, Henry VIII grew to become extraordinarily fats, his waist thickening to greater than 50in; and that he indulged in nice meals of pies, sport and candy dishes similar to custards, his desk manners have been ruled by inflexible etiquette.
There’s an excessive amount of mythology surrounding Tudor consuming habits. It’s extensively believed that, in Henry VIII’s time, it was good manners to chuck lamb bones over one’s shoulder for the greyhounds to eat. Pictured: The Non-public Lifetime of Henry VIII, 1933
The the Aristocracy washed their fingers earlier than, throughout and after each meal. They used a particular fingerbowl and a serviette. After the meal, the fingers have been washed whereas an usher brushed crumbs from the noble personage.
Henry VIII’s fingerbowl was significantly high quality. We all know from a present roll that at New Yr 1534 Anne Boleyn gave him ‘A goodly gilt bason, having a rail or board of gold within the midst of the brim, garnished with rubies and pearls, whereby standeth a fountain, additionally having a rail of gold about it garnished with diamonds; out thereof issueth water, on the teats of three bare ladies standing on the foot of the identical fountain.’
Jayne Knight, Worcester
QUESTION: Which nation suffers essentially the most earthquakes every year?
Indonesia is in a really lively seismic zone and, by advantage of its measurement, has extra earthquakes every year than some other nation. In 2020, about 8,260 earthquakes occurred in Indonesia.
A greater measure is likely to be main earthquakes, these outlined as occasions which might be chargeable for deaths, have a magnitude of seven.5 on the Richter scale, or trigger a tsunami.
Between 1990 and 2024, China had the very best variety of these main quakes, with 186.
O. P. Sammy, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
QUESTION: Black Sabbath have been previously The Polka Tulk Blues Band. What different well-known teams began out with horrible names?
Additional to earlier solutions, Gerry and the Pacemakers began out as Gerry Marsden and the Mars Bars.
Tom Kirby, Runcorn, Cheshire
