We were going to do a great post about the querky things that only happen this time of year! We thought Equinoxes are the only time of year you can balance an egg on its enod and we figured we could get some cool images then our human bro says that is not really true and he showed us this YouTube
Kozmo laughed and with his thumbs (see Thumbs Up Day) made some eggs stand on their ends!
Soooooo that led us to look up egg balancing and we found this great story about Christopher Columbus!
Columbus being at a party with many noble Spaniards, where, as was customary, the subject of conversation was the Indies: one of them undertook to say: "Mr. Christopher, even if you had not found the Indies, we should not have been devoid of a man who would have attempted the same that you did, here in our own country of Spain, as it is full of great men clever in cosmography and literature."
Columbus said nothing in answer to these words, but having desired an egg to be brought to him, he placed it on the table saying: "Gentlemen, I will lay a wager with any of you, that you will not make this egg stand up as I will, naked and without anything at all."
They all tried, and no one succeeded in making it stand up. When the egg came round to the hands of Columbus, by beating it down on the table he fixed it, having thus crushed a little of one end; wherefore all remained confused, understanding what he would have said: that after the deed is done, everybody knows how to do it; that they ought first to have sought for the Indies, and not laugh at him who had sought for it first, while they for some time had been laughing, and wondered at it as an impossibility.
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| Monument to the discovery of America by Columbus in the shape of an egg in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain |
Happy Equinox Every one and I hope you ALL have a balanced day!
That is a very interesting story about Christopher Columbus which I have not heard before.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting this post is. I need to give balancing an egg a try!
ReplyDeletethat was an eggs-cellent post about egg-siting things
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteWell, I learned something today!!! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
That was very interesting about the eggs. I've never tried to balance one. Maybe I'll get my mom to give it a try.
ReplyDeleteHahaha!
ReplyDeleteHilarious!
Java Bean: "Ayyy, wait, are we having an omelet? Can I get mine with chorizo?"
ReplyDeleteCool egg sculpture. Happy Spring! XO
ReplyDeleteThat's so interesting!
ReplyDeleteThat was really, really interesting! Happy Spring!!!
ReplyDeleteHooray for the arrival of Spring!! That means winter has to take off and leave, at least we hope it got the message.
ReplyDeleteHappy Spring! There’s also a story of architect Christopher Wren doing the same thing with an egg to prove yes, he had a better idea for making an egg stand up, and a better idea for building a cathedral (St. Paul’s in London).
ReplyDeleteWe always wondered about that egg balancing thing, Marv and Kozmo. That story about Columbus was great! Happy Spring! XO
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