Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."


以下的都是 Life in the 1500's
看看那时的情况吧

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and were still smelling pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the b.o.
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Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food. This happened most often with tomatoes, so they stopped eating tomatoes...for 400 years.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the "upper crust".

Ironically, the woods rustled with game and the rivers floppped with fish, but
the greenhorn settlers, many of them sel-styled "gentlemen" unaccustomed to
fending for themselves, wasted valuable time grubbing for nonexistent gold when
they should have been gathering provisions.


以下的有点恶搞。所以不要太过认真。
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Abraham Lincoln had a very hard childhood, he had to walk 7 miles to school everyday. Well he should have got up earlier and caught the school bus like everyone else !

When crossing the Delaware River why did George Washington stand up in the boat ? He was afraid that if he sat down that someone would give him an oar to row !

What does the 1286BC incribed on the mummy's tomb indicate ? The registration of the car that ran him over

Why did the pioneers cross the country in covered wagons ? Because they didn't want to wait 40 years for a train !

"What did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Christopher Columbus all have in common? They were all born on holidays."

What was Camelot ? A place where people parked their camels

Who succeeded the first President of the USA ? The second one