Tidbit Thursday

I need a Tidbit Thursday- I'm just learning so many various things, that individually may not do a post justice, but that I want to share. So here's my first round of Tidbit Thursday!

• In the Romantic Era, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake were pretty much unknown to the literary community and considered themselves junior collegues to poets such as Mary Robinson and Charlotte Smith.
• There are four kinds of fossils: casts, compression, impression, and permineralizations (petrified).
  
• The word "religion" in Latin means a strict binding or connection to something.
• Christ was already a God in the pre-mortal realm. (Found in Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage)
• The great battle of Lepanto in 1571- the great victory celebrated all over Europe as a triumph over the Ottomans- barely caused a ripple in the Ottoman Empire. Despite the losses they had more of a naval fleet than any European nation and they quickly replaced their losses. They were so wealthy in fact that they could have replaced their losses with "silver anchors, silken rigging, and satin sails" as the Grand Vizier at the time (Lewis's What Went Wrong, pg 11)
• Florence Nightengale once said: "The . . . foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and . . . aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is therefore a religious experience." Interesting.

More to come next week : )