Facts in "History" Category
#2271 - History Fact     1  It took 214 crates to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885. |
| #2272 - History Fact 11 Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel - The Titan. |
| #2273 - History Fact 0 George Washington, who was nearly toothless himself, was meticulous with the teeth of the six white horses that pulled his presidential coach. He had their teeth picked and cleaned daily to improve their appearance. |
| #2274 - History Fact 1 The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity. |
| #2275 - History Fact 2 Civil War General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson has two separate burial sites. His left arm, which was amputated after the battle of Chancellorsville was buried on a nearby farm. A week later, Jackson died and was buried in Lexington, Virginia. |
| #2276 - History Fact 1 The first advertisement printed in English in 1477 offered a prayer book. The ad was published by William Caxton on his press in Westminster Abbey. No price was mentioned, only that the book was "good chepe." |
| #2277 - History Fact 1 Czar Paul 1 banished soldiers to Siberia for marching out of step. |
| #2278 - History Fact 2 Louis XIV had forty personal wigmakers and almost 1000 wigs. |
| #2279 - History Fact -2 Before 1863, postal service in the United States was free. |
| #2280 - History Fact 0 The practice of exchanging presents at Christmas originated with the Romans. |
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