Facts in "History" Category
#2301 - History Fact     0  New Zealand was the first place in the world to allow women to vote. The state of South Australia was next, in 1894, and it was also the first place to allow women to stand for parliament. |
| #2302 - History Fact 0 The Taj Mahal complex in India was built between 1631 and 1634 at a cost of about 40-million rupees. |
| #2303 - History Fact -2 The first telephone exchange opened on January 28, 1878, in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| #2304 - History Fact 2 A female pharaoh was unknown in Egypt before Hatshepsut, who had herself portrayed in male costume, with a beard and without breasts. |
| #2305 - History Fact 4 After being forced to state in public that the earth does not rotate, Galileo is said to have muttered under his breath, "But it does move." |
| #2306 - History Fact 4 The 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life. |
| #2307 - History Fact 3 "Hot cockles" was a popular game at Christmas in medieval times. It was a game in which the other players took turns striking the blindfolded player, who had to guess the name of the person delivering each blow. "Hot cockles" was still a Christmas pastime until the Victorian era. |
| #2308 - History Fact 2 Civil War General Stonewall Jackson died when he was accidentally hit by fire from his own troop. |
| #2309 - History Fact 1 When Napoleon wore black silk handkerchiefs around his neck during a battle, he always won. At Waterloo, he wore a white cravat and lost the battle and his kingdom. |
| #2310 - History Fact -3 The steel industry, in 1943, introduced the 5-day, 40 hour work week. Henry Ford adopted it in 1926. |
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