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NW Washington | That info sounds like it came out of a book making the rounds now authored by Bill Bryson called "At Home" where is spends over 400 pages talking about how we live in houses and how house design evolved over the ages. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/index.html
It is a interesting book. It is not a spell binder, but a fun read none the less. He lives in England so a lot of the book is about houses and living in England in years past, but he is an American who was raised in Iowa so he includes some stuff about living in the old days in the US too.
After reading that book you will be darn glad you are living in 2010 and not 1810. Things were pretty grim in those days, both living conditions and personal health. If you lived past about 40 your were an old geezer. Up to 1/2 of all children died before they were 5 or 6 years old. Women commonly died in childbirth. Grim stuff. Child labor, no work rules.
I have read that in Italy where folks have been living and dying for thousands of years they dig up cemeteries after about 10 years to make room for more burials. They give the bones they dig up to the families of the deceased. Bryson talks about how cemeteries around old churches in England have made the soil surface seem to rise because of all the burials over hundred of years, some of whom are stacked on top of one another.
Edited by JohnW 12/12/2010 03:34
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Where did piss poor come from?
