Facts in "History" Category
#2281 - History Fact     1  New York was the first state to require the licensing of motor vehicles. The law was adopted in 1901. |
| #2282 - History Fact 1 Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840. |
| #2283 - History Fact -1 Seating on the first scheduled inter-city commuter airplane flight consisted of moveable wicker chairs. There were 11 of them on the first Ford Tri-Motors. After several years, Ford replaced them with aluminum framed leather chairs. |
| #2284 - History Fact 2 President George Washington oversaw construction of the White House, but he never lived there. It was our second President, John Adams, elected in 1796, who first lived in the White House. His term was almost over by the time he moved in, and only six rooms had been finished. |
| #2285 - History Fact -3 Pope Paul IV, who was elected on 23 May 1555, was so outraged when he saw the naked bodies on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that he ordered Michelangelo to paint on to them. |
| #2286 - History Fact 1 American astronomer, mathematician, clock-maker, surveyor and almanac editor Benjamin Banneker has been called the "first black man of science." Banneker took part in the original survey of Washington, DC. His almanac was published 1792 to 1797. |
| #2287 - History Fact 5 The Aztec Indians in Central America used animal blood mixed with cement as a mortar for their buildings, many of which still remain standing today. |
| #2288 - History Fact 2 While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard. |
| #2289 - History Fact 0 The Coliseum received its name not for its size, but for a colossal statue of Nero that stood close by, placed there after the destruction of his palace. |
| #2290 - History Fact 2 In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats. |
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