History

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

History The First Ally Soldier to Step Onto the Beach of Normandy During the D-Day Invasion was Leonard Treherne “Max” Schroeder Jr. He Survived and was Awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. November 5, 2022

History Hunger Stones are Riverbed Stones that were Marked with an Inscription Visible Only When the Flow was Low Enough to Warn People of a Drought that Would Cause Famine. November 2, 2022

History There were 242 Known Languages That Went Extinct During the 20th Century. October 31, 2022

History The Black Terror is a Union Warship During the American Civil War. It was also Completely Fake and Cost $8.63 to Construct. October 27, 2022

History The Parthenon in Athens was Intact for Over 2,000 Years. The Heavily Damaged Ruins were Caused by a Massive Explosion in 1687 and Not by Natural Forces. October 24, 2022

History The BBC Initially Refused to Air Richard Dimbleby’s Eye Witness Account of the Belsen Concentration Camp. They Did Not Believe it was as Horrible as He Described. The Network Only Agreed to Broadcast After Dimbleby Threatened to Resign. October 20, 2022

History During the Second World War There was a Secret Hospital for 120 Partisans in Slovenia That was Hidden in the Forest. It Remained a Secret for Over Two Years Despite Fervent Attempts by Enemy Forces. October 18, 2022

History Heinrich Kubis, the First Flight Attendant in the World, Started Working as a Waiter on a Zeppelin in 1912. He was also Aboard the Hindenburg but Survived the Disaster. October 17, 2022

History Frank Goldsmith, a Survivor of the RMS Titanic, Ended Up Living Near a Baseball Stadium in Detroit. He Hated Game Days Because the Sound of the Cheering Crowd Reminded Him of the Screaming People During the Tragedy. October 16, 2022

History The Bodhi Fig Tree in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, is the Oldest Tree on Earth. It was Planted in 288 BC by an Indian Princess. October 13, 2022