In Middle ages people walked in different fashion than we do now. So-called toe-heel walking used to be absolutely natural. In about 1500s, the way of walk changed as did the foot wear. 10
The Romans loved Chinese silk so much…
The Romans loved Chinese silk so much that the Senate banned its wearing by men in 14 A.D. It was hurting the economy as way too much silk was being imported and not enough of other stuff, like iron. 00
200-1200s AD, Inuit and Vikings colonized Greenland…
200-1200s AD, Inuit and Vikings colonized Greenland multiple times, but they often missed the other and found the ruins of the other’s attempt. First Contact finally happened in the 1200s, with Inuits colonizing the Vikings. 00
The History of Nintendo Consoles
Since 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 4.4 billion video games and over 703 million hardware units. The company was founded on 23rd September 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi. They started out manufacturing playing cards and later printed them with Disney characters. This came a long time before they began developing video games. Here is a list of every video game console Nintendo has released, good and bad. Color-TV Game (1977-1979) Most people would say the first Nintendo console was the NES. It was, in fact, the Color TV-game 6 – the 6 referring to the different games
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Black people in ancient Rome were not discriminated…
Black people in ancient Rome were not discriminated against because of their skin color or physical features. They were not excluded from any profession and there was no stigma against mixed race relationships. Classical writers did not attach social status or degree of humanity to skin color. 00
Between 1798 and the Civil War, the U.S. Navy…
Between 1798 and the Civil War, the U.S. Navy lost two-thirds as many officers to dueling as it did to more than 60 years of combat at sea. In the 18th and early 19th Centuries, personal honor could have a very real impact on a man’s life, especially for a naval officer. Most naval officers […]
One of the major objectives of the French Revolution…
One of the major objectives of the French Revolution was to switch all measures of time from base 12 to base 10, including a ten day week. Ironically, the experiment lasted 12 years. 00
Laundry was for 50 years often mailed. Until the 1960s…
Laundry was for 50 years often mailed. Until the 1960s, many US college students mailed dirty clothes home for moms to wash and mail back (often including food), using reusable boxes and USPS parcel post. Modern washing machines that made washing clothes locally easier ended laundry mail. 00
Treadmills were created to punish prisoners in 1818
Does it seem like work when you’re on a treadmill? There may be a good reason why – as in how tread wheels evolved into treadmills. Ancient Greeks invented the crane to lift heavy loads in the late sixth century. Roman engineers took the Greeks’ design and built the Polyspastos Crane. The new crane allowed four workers to lift 3000kg using a winch on each side. The engineers then replaced the winch with the treadwheel (vertically attached to the crane). A worker would crawl inside the wheel (think hamster) allowing half the number of workers to lift double the weight
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10 Eye-Opening Facts about the Holocaust
The word “holocaust”, originally comes from the Greek adjective “holokaustos”, “holo” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning completely burnt. In other words, it referred to an animal sacrifice, which was completely burnt, as a sacrifice to a god. In Hebrew, it refers to as the “Shoah”, meaning catastrophe, and was a genocide where over 6 million European Jews were killed, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi collaborators. The period of the Holocaust can be narrowed down, to the years 1941 to 1945. Here are some interesting and startling facts about the Holocaust: Stanislawa Leszczynska was a Polish Catholic
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