Facts in "History" Category
#2381 - History Fact     2  When Elizabeth I of Russia died in 1762, 15,000 dresses were found in her closets. She used to change what she was wearing two and even three times an evening. |
| #2382 - History Fact 2 Napoleon, the famous French general, was not born in France. He was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica of Italian parents. |
| #2383 - History Fact -2 When he resigned in 1923 because of illegal behavior in the Teapot Dome Affair, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was offered an appointment to the Supreme Court by President Harding. In 1931, Fall was tried and found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. |
| #2384 - History Fact 0 Jahangir, a 17th-century Indian Mughal ruler, had 5,000 women in his harem and 1,000 young boys. He also owned 12,000 elephants. |
| #2385 - History Fact 4 If the arm of King Henry I of England had been 42 inches long, the unit of measure of a "foot" today would be fourteen inches. But his arm happened to be 36 inches long and he decreed that the "standard" foot should be one-third that length: 12 inches. |
| #2386 - History Fact -4 When Thomas Jefferson became U.S. President in 1801, 20 percent of all people in the young nation were slaves. |
| #2387 - History Fact -1 Early Egyptians wore sandals made from woven papyrus leaves. |
| #2388 - History Fact 0 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the fathers of communism, wrote 500 articles for the "New York Tribune" from 1851 to 1862. |
| #2389 - History Fact 2 Karl Marx was targeted for assassination when he met with two Prussian officers in his house in Cologne in 1848. Marx had friends among the German labor unions, and he was considered a threat to the autocrats. Dressed in his bathrobe, he forced the officers out at the point of a revolver, which, it turned out, was not loaded. |
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