The Ultimate Bucket List: 50 Buckets You Must See Before You Die
By Dixe Wills and Rory Walker
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'It's BUCKETLICIOUS! I command you to enjoy this book' Lord Buckethead
The Battle of Hastings, where Harold's penchant for wearing on his head an upturned bucket rather than the standard issue helmet was to prove his undoing; the invention of the wheel, which occurred when a gentleman in Mesopotamia stumbled upon a bucket and watched transfixed as it rolled across the floor; the foundation of Rome: Romulus, Remus and a bucket - the rest is history.
Unchanged in design over millennia, the humble bucket possesses a versatility unmatched in the history of human invention. It is the unobtrusive onlooker, the fly on the wall sat in quiet contemplation at all great turning points in world history.
Detailing 50 buckets that were present at great moments in history, Guardian travel writer and author of Tiny Castles and Tiny Histories, Dixe Wills, describes each event through their sage and unblinking gaze. It's time to start ticking some buckets off your list.
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The Ultimate Bucket List - Dixe Wills
The Ultimate Tickable Bucket List
Tick each bucket off by popping a tick in each bucket. The countdown to the end of life has seldom been more fun.
1: Cleopatra’s Bucket
2: Moon-Landing Rock Sample Bucket
3: Marie Antoinette’s Milking Pail
4: The Original KFC Bucket
5: The Bromeswell Bucket
6: The Bucket Wheel
7: The Bucket of Blood
8: The Basilewsky Situla
9: Mi’kmaq Birchbark Maple Syrup Bucket
10: Jack and Jill’s Pail
11: Ashurnasirpal’s Protective Spirit Bucket
12: Van Gogh’s Bucket
13: Agatha Christie’s Apple-Bobbing Bucket
14: Harold II’s Bucket Helmet
15: Paul Revere’s Bucket of False Teeth
16: The Pythagorean Bucket
17: The Great Fire of London Bucket
18: Hedy Lamarr’s Bucket of Spread Spectrum Frequency Hopping Bits (and Bobs)
19: Henry I’s Bucket of Lampreys
20: Big Bank Hank’s Bucket Hat
21: Baseball’s Imaginary Bucket
22: The Bobrinski Bucket
23: Jan and Dean’s Bucket Seats
24: Emily Brontȅ’s Wuthering Bucket
25: Mr Creosote’s Bucket
26: Isaac Newton’s Bucket Argument
27: Larry Wright’s Bucket Drums
28: Balti
29: Nicobar Islands Toiletries/Cosmetics Equipment Bucket
30: Charlie Bucket
31: The Laminated Bucket of Fabius Amandus
32: Lord Buckethead
33: The Lady with the Bucket
34: The Bucket Toilet
35: Taylor Swift’s Bucket
36: Venetian Glass Bucket
37: US Navy K-G Underwater Cutting-Equipment Bucket
38: The Bargain Bucket
39: Ned Kelly’s Bucket Helmet
40: Stanislas Sorel’s Galvanised Bucket
41: Bucket ’n’ Spade Bucket
42: The Marlborough Ice Pails
43: Leonardo da Vinci’s Gyro-Bucket
44: The Bucket as Unit
45: Wellington’s Bucket Fountain
46: Archimedes’ Bucket
47: The War of the Bucket’s Bucket
48: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Kelp Water‑Carrying Bucket
49: The Yalta Conference Bucket
50: Schrȍdinger’s Bucket
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Consolatory bonus box – tick this if you die before you see all 50 buckets.
Cleopatra’s Bucket
Much tosh has been written about the meeting of Cleopatra and Mark Antony in Tarsus in 41 BC. However, insiders know that once they’d had a chat about the spelling of Antony’s name and what had happened to the h and all that (he didn’t know – it had always ‘just not been there’), they found they didn’t have much to say. Also, Latin was an Indo-European tongue while Egyptian was Afro-Asiatic and there was not a lot of common ground, to be honest.
Inevitably, the conversation turned to buckets.
‘Nice bucket you’ve got there,’ Antony ventured. This date hadn’t gone as he’d hoped. Bucket-chat was very much Plan C territory. To aid comprehension, he pointed at the bucket and smiled.
‘Thank you,’ Cleopatra replied. ‘It’s for transporting the asses’ milk to my bath from … well, from that container over there.’
She mimed a servant dipping the bucket into that container over there and transporting the milk to her bath. She cringed. Why were they even in her bathroom? She couldn’t for the life of her work out how that had happened and she began to wonder if there hadn’t been a misunderstanding. Well he needn’t think he was going to go in here. Roman general or no, he could use the communal palace toilets like everyone else.
‘Fascinating,’ said Mark Antony, unfascinated. This was all going terribly. Here he was, a third of the triumvirate. What did that make him? A triumvirile? A triumph? A trumpet? Anyway, pretty much the most powerful man in the Roman Empire meeting the woman who could fund a whole military expedition if he fancied having a crack at the Parthian Empire, which he very much did, yes please thankyouyesindeedyesyes. And yet they were pointing at a bucket – o me miserum.
‘What?’ asked Cleopatra. But she was already thinking longingly of an asp.
SEE IT: Great Mimes Through Time, Tarsus Museum, Turkey.
Moon-Landing Rock Sample Bucket
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong’s famous first line on taking his one small step for him upon the surface of the Moon. (Why such a small step, Neil? You weigh almost nothing suddenly – have a good old stride.) The second line, uttered by Buzz Aldrin, was less memorable but all the more gladdening for being unscripted.
‘Have you got the rock sample bucket, Neil?’ he buzzed, for they were on first-name terms.
‘Bother!’ quoth Neil, somewhat more vexed than his exclamation might imply but aware that his words were still being broadcast to untold millions below. ‘Could you get it from the space cupboard, Buzz?’
There was no such thing as a space cupboard on Apollo XI – it was just an ordinary cupboard – but after his gaffe, Neil was keen to regain the admiration of the untold millions below. Buzz clambered back in the spacecraft – his unmic-ed expletives lost to posterity – and fetched the