History facts
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Joan of Arc - interesting facts
Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in France and died in 1431. When Joan was thirteen years old, she claimed she heard God's voice telling her she was chosen by him to help him and to do great super human things. Three years later she again claimed ...
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wedding dress history
For the brides, the wedding day is often regarded as a special day, therefore for this event the bride should be dressed with something really special. It can be said that wedding dress is as old as marriage itself, but the dress in the form ...
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Public Transportation History
When we go up in an overcrowded bus and maybe with no air conditioning we will certainly l transpire with next t o dozen other bodies. Perhaps in that moment we want the public transportation to not ever been invented and people to continued to go on ...
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History of Socks
I think socks are among the greatest things invented by humanity. I do not know how the world would have looked without the steam engine but without socks i'm sure that would be terribly cold. As proof that the socks were extremely important in the evolution of mankind you ...
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Interesting Stonehenge facts
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. Stonehenge was built between 3100 – 1100 BCE. It has been estimated that the three phases of the construction required more than thirty million hours of labour. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by Merlin. The stones increased in size ...
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Interesting facts about Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada. The First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. A ...
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interesting facts about vikings
The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse' and means 'a pirate raid'. The Vikings had been living in the Scandinavian lands (Sweden, Denmark and Norway) for more than a thousand years. Dublin was founded by Viking raiders in the ninth century. Vikings “found” America around 500 years before ...
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interesting facts about Christmas
In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. The idea of the Christmas Celebration is taken out from the Gospel books of the bible. England has only known seven white Christmases in the entire twentieth century. Nearly 60 million Christmas trees are grown each ...
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Interesting facts about Islam
“Islam” means “peace through the submission to God”. Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. Approximately one out of every five people today designate their religion as Islam. Islam is not a cult. Its followers number over one billion worldwide. Along with Judaism and Christianity, it is ...
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Facts about World War 1
World War 1 or the First World War, 1914 - 1918, was the first war that involved nations spanning more than half the globe. The war was fought by the Allies on one side, and the Central Powers on the other. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. He was ...
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Interesting American Flag Facts
The fifty stars on the flag represent the 50 U.S. states and the 13 stripes represent the original thirteen colonies that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first states in the Union. The five pointed stars is used as symbol in states like Puerto Rico, Uruguay, ...
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interesting facts about newspapers
In China, early government-produced news sheets, called tipao, circulated among court officials during the late Han dynasty (second and third centuries AD). The first modern newspapers were products of western European countries like Germany (publishing Relation in 1605), France (Gazette in 1631), Belgium (Nieuwe Tijdingen in 1616) and England (the ...