Continuing the 50 days of Dr Who meme

Dr Who meme- http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/post/63123760534/ok-we-are-just-50-days-away-from-the-november - OK, I missed out a day in yesterday's catchup:

November 10: Name an episode that gave you the feels. (Name the feels.)

The Name Of The Doctor springs to mind - when the Doctor addresses ghost River. Loss and guilt and heartbreak, oh my.

As for today:

November 18: Name a minor character that you’d like to see return.

Alpha Centauri

History links of interest

Politics in Ancient Greece-

http://www.ancient.eu.com/article/631/

This one's more fun though-

http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/24/%E2%80%98i-have-traveled-a-good-deal-in-norfolk%E2%80%99-reconsidering-women%E2%80%99s-literacy-in-late-medieval-england/

Long story short, back in the day, "literate" and "illiterate" didn't mean you could or couldn't read and write - it meant you could or couldn't read and write *Latin*.

If you could read and write, but not in Latin, and were a woman, the word used was "lewed".

From which, interestingly, we get the totally-different-in-meaning word "lewd"...

The old English word Laewed originally meant non-clerical, you see, then came to mean coarse and vulgar later in the Middle Ages. So then the clergy managed to cast women who could read and write non-Latin into lewd women, deceptive with their non-clerical writings... You can see where that was going to lead...

BBC Ghosts

"Classic BBC Horror on DVD (trailer)" (Watch on YouTube)

Yay, classic ghost stories.

Somebody should write a book- oh, wait…