History

History In 1784, Great Britain Imposed Tax on Bricks to Pay for the War in America. This Made People Start Using Larger Bricks. December 8, 2022

History Benjamin Hornigold, the Pirate, Once Raided a Merchant Ship Just to Steal the Hats of the Ship's Crew. He Did This Because His Crew had Gotten So Drunk the Night Before and Threw Their Hats Overboard. December 7, 2022

History Thomas Jefferson Wanted the Constitution Re-Written Every 19 Years. December 5, 2022

History The First US Gold Rush Started in North Carolina in 1803 When a 12-Year-Old Boy Found a 17-Pound Gold Nugget on His Father's Farm. December 5, 2022

History Suero de Quinones was a Knight Who Spent a Month Camped Next to a Bridge with 10 of His Friends to Challenge Every Knight Who Crossed to Joust for No Reason. December 4, 2022

History The City of Isfahan Surrendered to the Turk-Mongol Conqueror Timur. The Citizens Then Killed Timur's Tax Collector, and He Ordered the Massacre of Over 100,000 People and Built Piles Out of Their Heads as Revenge. December 2, 2022

History Nearly 90% of US Army deaths during the Mexican-American War were Due to Infectious Diseases. This was the Highest of Any US Conflict. November 27, 2022

History The Lost Batallion of World War I was Where Soldiers of the US 77th Division Launched an Attack in the Argonne Forest Under the Idea That The French supported them. The Name is a Misnomer. The Troops were Not Lost, but They were Neglected. November 22, 2022

History During the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein Built a Defensive Line Filled with Trenches and Tunnels. This was Patterned with Trench Warfare in World War I. The US Forces were Charged with Modified Bulldozers, and Several were Buried Alive. November 21, 2022

History When King Hammurabi Reigned, All Debt was Cancelled for All Citizens. November 20, 2022

History Spartan Magistrates Would Declare War on Their Slaves Every Year. This Gave Them an Excuse to Hurt or Kill Their Slaves. November 16, 2022

History It Took the US Navy 20,000 Hours of Underwater Repairs to Refloat the Majority of the Battleships that Sank at Pearl Harbor. November 16, 2022

History Christopher Columbus' Smaller Two Ships were Not Really Named The Niña and The Pinta. The Niña was actually The Santa Clara, While The Original Name of The Pinta was Forgotten. November 15, 2022

History Socrates Did Not Write Anything. All That is Known About Him Has Been Inferred from Accounts by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. November 14, 2022

History Out of the 10 Deadliest Wars in Human History, Six of Them were Chinese Civil Wars. November 14, 2022

History The Brooklyn Bridge was Built with the Help of Pressurized Caissons. Several Workers were Killed or Permanently Injured Because of it. November 13, 2022

History Carrie Nation Fought Against the Widespread Alcohol Consumption in the US Before the Prohibition by Attacking Saloons with a Hatchet. November 13, 2022

History The “Devil’s Advocate” was a Title Given in the Catholic Church. The Devil’s Advocate’s Job was to Argue Against the Canonization of Any Candidate. November 9, 2022

History In the 1936 President Election, Franklin D. Roosevelt Received 98.49% of the Electoral Vote Total. This Remains to be the Highest Percentage of Electoral Votes Won by Any Candidate Since 1820. November 9, 2022

History President Dwight D. Eisenhower Kept Silent About Joseph McCarthy in Public. However, He Started a Secret Campaign That Eventually Ended the Senator’s Career. November 9, 2022