Facts in "History" Category
#2251 - History Fact     2  Florence Nightingale served only two years of her life as a nurse. She contracted fever during her service in the Crimean War, and spent the last 50 years of her life as an invalid. |
| #2252 - History Fact 0 Emir Beysari (1233-1293), an Egyptian of great wealth, drank wine from gold and silver cups, yet he never in all his life used the same cup twice. |
| #2253 - History Fact 2 The first European to visit the Mississippi River was DeSoto. |
| #2254 - History Fact 4 Human skulls had been used as drinking cups for hundreds of years. The muscles and flesh were scraped away, the bottom was hacked off and then they were suitable to hold any beverage. |
| #2255 - History Fact -1 The first Bowie knife was forged at Washington, Arkansas. |
| #2256 - History Fact 0 All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park. |
| #2257 - History Fact -2 Louis XV was the first person to use an elevator: in 1743 his "flying chair" carried him between the floors of the Versailles palace. |
| #2258 - History Fact 1 The last words spoken from the moon were from Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 Mission on 11 December 1972. "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." |
| #2259 - History Fact 11 Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. |
| #2260 - History Fact 5 Salim (1569-1627, heir to the throne of India, had 4 wives when he was only 8 years of age. |
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