Furniture History
Makes sense we call it this today. It was a two person courting bench during the Victorian Era.
Love Seat
The Miasma Theory stated that this was thought to carry and spread disease. Hence the reason for a Pocket full of Posies.
Bad Air/ Foul Smells.
Betty White
Graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows....
S'more
No matter how you slice it and dice it, thin German sausage known as frankfurters would not be the same after Americans decided to collectively call them this...
Hot Dogs.
This Vermont based furniture store got its name by debuting a 28 piece line of colonial furniture and named it for a son of Vermont and an American Hero.
Ethan Allen
Cutting veins and using these creatures to suck "Bad blood" out was a common thing in medieval times.
Leeches
I was labeled as box office poison due to my decline in popularity. I showed them all in 1946 by winning my first academy award at the age of 40 with Mildred Pierce.
Joan Crawford
Don't like tent camping? maybe upgrade to a rustic one of these (Some of them have bathrooms today!).
Cabin
This form of meditation evolved from ancient India 5,000 years ago. Comes from the Sanskrit word "yuj", meaning to join
Yoga
This Michigan based company was founded in 1927 when two brothers invented a wooden slat porch chair with a unique reclining mechanism. Soon the upholstered versions came out.
La-Z-Boy - Named through a factory contest.
These types of home remedies were discovered in medieval times and still used today.
Herbal Remedies
I was a famous 19th century stage actor and confederate sympathizer who did the unthinkable on April 14th 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
This North American Animal has the strongest sense of smell, detecting scents up to 20 miles away. Don't leave your trash out.
Black Bear
Another name for this category. A messy mix up collection of different things. Orit could be a soft thick, pulpy lump of food or clay.
This is derived from the latin word Amarium (A chest or closet used to for tools or weapons).
Armoire
Health depended on balancing blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. They were known as the four ______
Four Humors
When I became first lady, my cause was to encourage kids not to do drugs. My simple refusal strategy "Just Say No" became a staple in schools everywhere.
Nancy Reagan
Avoid setting up your sight in or around these shiny plants with leaves of three.
Poison Ivy
The LED lightbulb was invented in 1962 but it only produced this color. We had to wait until 1994.
Red ( we had to wait even longer for the first LED lamps capable of replacing tradition 60watt bulbs. That was 2008)
IN 1385 Geoffrey Chaucer used a spin off this old French word in his writings to describe a bed or a place for sleeping. It caught on and we still use it today.
Couch
The most famous medieval school of medicine was founded by a Christian, an Arab and a Jew in this southern Italian City.
Salerno
School wasn't my thing I guess. I was kicked out of High school for for riding a motorcycle through the halls. Then I managed to get expelled from Military school.
Starting a fire without matches? You'll need a hearth board (A flat piece of wood) and a straight stick known as this...
Spindle
Emperor Domitian, added top tier seats in the colosseum as well as hypogeum, also known as these...
Underground Tunnels