I thought it would be fun to make a thread where you post some interesting, non-fictional, historical tidbits/facts. You can either directly quote them or simply paraphrase them your self. Please keep them real? Here is something that I read that I found interesting:
According to legend, Ho Chi Mihn was a cook at the Ritz Carlton in Paris during the end of WW1. He submitted a petition during the Paris Peace Conference to talk about independence for Vietnam (then French Indochina) from France, as numerous other colonial and national borders/territories were also being discussed and negotiated during the talks, but was ignored. It is believed this rejection (along with various other groups that he met during his time working as a cook) contributed to his radicalization and later philosophy.
The word "Y'all" didn't come into being because of southerners being lazy and slurring "you+all." It comes from the Scott-Irish that settled in the southern US. As "proper" English has no separate second person plural pronoun, one was adopted (ye aw).* I deal with that every time I visit my grandparents in Indiana. "Kathy, just say "you all!" "But grandma, it's it's own pronoun!" *That's not proven, but as it's used as a second person plural pronoun almost exclusively, that makes the most sense. And I'm condensing the info- the evolution of the word is more complicated than that.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (the 3rd and 2nd Presidents respectively) both died hours apart on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country. That is all.
I got two universal middle fingers for tomorrow... Still bitter about not getting MPs at rebate prices.
Good, I was about to tell you to vote tomorrow. While voting for candiates (and democracy as a whole) is often ascribed to beginning in ancient Athens, the practice of scoring candidates on a range, and then tallying scores to determine a "winner" of an election as the highest overall score (rather than one vote per person), known today as preferential ballots (as opposed to first-past-the post voting) may date back even earlier, to the Spartan Apella.
Slavery in the USA was not compleatly abolished till 1995. Mississippy never signed the documentation.
Tennessse was known as "The Lucky 36th." For being the last state to sign to give women rights in america.... Everybody in this state takes that with pride.... But Women actually had rights in some North-West states before hand, Being able to vote in several elections minus the Presidential.
It's still not "completely" abolished, the 13th ammendment includes the caveat "except as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
You mean Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment until 1995. All states don't have to Ratify a Constitutional Amendment for it to become attached to the Constitution - once 2/3 of the states ratify an amendment, then its law. The non-ratifying states can then choose to ratify or not at a later date.
Yeah. I saw your post and beastwarsfan95's question as well. To answer his question: tomorrow is the day when we all vote to remove ALL Beast Wars toys clogging our aisles and forums.
When Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine, he skipped the patent for it because without that documentation the vaccine would remain affordable & readily available. If he'd obtained the patent, Salk would've gained approximately $7 billion
No more shall I be swamped with Bison Bonecrushers! Speaking of Bison, first nations people in Canada used to hunt the beasts (who didn't have missile launchers built into their heads at the time) by chasing large herds of them towards a cliff, and due to the pushing of the herd from the back, those at the front would be unable to avoid turning in time to avoid falling off said cliff. Then they'd just clean up the carcasses close to their camp at the bottom of the cliff. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - UNESCO World Heritage Centre And that's how we have Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO world heritage site in Alberta.
Isn't that what they did to Lemmings? Forced them off a cliff and then told the world they're stupid? EDIT: Heres the video. http://youtu.be/AOOs8MaR1YM
The Russians Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov probably prevented the Cold War from developing into actual nuclear warfare. Thank goodness for people who ask questions first and shoot later.
Buffalo Soldiers, all Black Calvary units who served in the west after the US Civil war were so named because the native Americans thought the tightly curled hair of the black men resembled that of the Buffalo. The treaty that bound together Germany, Italy and Japan as the Axis in world war II did not require any of the three to declare war against a nation who declared war on one of them. Hitler and Mussolini did not have to Declare war on the United States after the US declared war on Japan in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, if they had not the war may have gone much differently.
