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# Saturday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/26483/
- Published: 2012-12-15T11:23:09.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-15T11:23:09.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He recently gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

In June of 1932, a twenty-year-old Marshall McLuhan wrote his parents back in Winnipeg (he was en route to England for bicycling) with a practical suggestion. He urged them to enter a newspaper's "Believe It or Not" contest with Chesterton's *A Short History of England*, a history book that contains not one single date. \[*Letters of Marshall McLuhan*, Oxford, 1987, p. 11\] Of course McLuhan was quite wrong. Chesterton's *Short History* contains seven dates: 878, 1397, 1399, 1750, 1832, 1850, and 1914.