FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Diary of an Ordinary Woman is the 'edited' diary of fictional woman Millicent King (1901-1995). Written by Margaret Forster
From the age of thirteen, on the eve of the Great War, Millicent King keeps her journals in a series of exercise books. The diary records the dramas of everyday life in an ordinary English family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles in the early decades of the century. She struggles to become a teacher, but wants more out of life. From bohemian literary London to Rome in the twenties, her story moves on to social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. She has proposals of marriage and secret lovers, ambition and optimism. but then her life is turned upside down once more by wartime deaths.
External link
Guardian Unlimited Book review (http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938812,00.html)
In an old family bible I discovered that Jacob Breyrogel was born in 1748, four years after his family emigrated from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania.
There was an orchard of three hundred apple trees, forty early Richmond cherry trees, a garden with rows and rows of red and white currants, and a row of rhubarb which could have furnished pies for the neighborhood.
An important event for members of the Dunkard Church was the annual "love Feast", which was held each year at the Yellow Creek Church, so called because it was located near that stream.
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