Historic Buff Gifts

Planner at work.

'Sire, your new fortress was fine for your nephew's fifth, but I fear it is set for a sterner test.'

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Knight Golfing

Theorbo

Cavemen Romantic Gesture

A Macaroni in 1772

Several generations live together in Cuba

There were originally four musketeers. He said that the pen is mightier than the sword.

"Where do you think we are in the food chain right now?"

Missing You.

"I couldn't care less if being Homo Sapiens is the latest trend. While you're living in our cave, you better act like a true Neanderthal."

"Our focus group will butcher your focus group."

Easter Island is still a tourist site after the oceans rise due to global warming.

Of Mice and Men.

"Tonight we are going out to plunder, lads!"

'Sigh! So that's what love is all about...'

May your Christmas be full of harmony

"To begin with, I would like to express my sincere thanks and deep appreciation for the opportunity to meet with you. While there are still profound differences between us, I think the very fact of my presence here today is a major breakthrough."

If the Brontë sisters wrote science fiction

What do you think about this "too big to fail" stuff?

"Say! While I'm off in the Holy Land, why don't you find a little crusade of some kind that interests you?"

"Hendrickje, I feel another self-portrait coming on. Bring in the funny hats."

"Of course you'll study Latin. How else will you learn the names of your dinosaur friends."

Knights of the Square Table.

A caveman kid sees his ancestor in a museum exhibit

"You fools! That's not the boiling oil, that's my beef casserole!"

'You can't recuse yourself from a war!'

Verbal Orders

"Tractors, Sir - thousands of 'em!"

"Never gonna give thou up -- Never gonna let thou down -- Never gonna run around and desert thouuuuuu."

The simultaneous development of dining and pomposity.

"It's a giant banana but is it an organic giant banana?"

"And now, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto, Number One, first movement."

'There he goes over the bag limit again!'