Facts in "History" Category
#2331 - History Fact     1  Unfortunately Gaius grew up and became emperor, incongruously retaining his boyhood diminutive. "Little boots" in Latin is "Caligula." As you may know, he was a bloodthirsty, sadistic fiend. |
| #2332 - History Fact 0 Before winning the election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections for various offices. |
| #2333 - History Fact 0 In ancient Greece, courtesans wore sandals with nails studded into the sole so that their footprints would leave the message "Follow me". |
| #2334 - History Fact 4 In 1937 the emergency 999 telephone service was established in London. More than 13,000 genuine calls were made in the first month. |
| #2335 - History Fact 3 In 1974 there were 90 tornadoes in the U.S. in one day. |
| #2336 - History Fact 0 Akhbar the Great Mughal routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat in the Hindu revolt. |
| #2337 - History Fact 4 At the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty men. |
| #2338 - History Fact 0 Before all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists. |
| #2339 - History Fact 2 King Charles VII, who was assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed. No one knows why. To add to the mystery, almost 300 years went by before there was a Charles VIII (1448-57). |
| #2340 - History Fact 2 Many hundreds of years ago when the well-known style of Irish dancing began in the country side of Ireland, most houses of the poor - and that means most houses - only had a dirt floor which was not a lot of use for dancing on if you were holding a ceildh (pronounced kay-lee and meaning party - more or less). So in order to make the dancing easier the owners of the house which was holding the party would take the doors off their hinges and lay them on the floor. There was just enough room on each door for two people to dance, providing they did not fling their arms about - hence the original name for Irish dancing - Door Dancing. |
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