(08-10-2022, 04:33 AM)JHG Wrote: [ -> ]46. The Star Spangled Banner was only adopted as the US national anthem in 1931 so...not sure what would be Washington's theme music at his inauguration(And I want it replaced!)
According to
this, it was "The President's March" - which was basically "Hail, Columbia", but without the lyrics (those were written later).
So, it would've sounded like this:
47. Rome was the first city in the world to have a population of 1 million (it's estimated that it hit this milestone around 133BC)
(08-10-2022, 04:16 PM)Kyng Wrote: [ -> ] (08-10-2022, 04:33 AM)JHG Wrote: [ -> ]46. The Star Spangled Banner was only adopted as the US national anthem in 1931 so...not sure what would be Washington's theme music at his inauguration(And I want it replaced!)
According to this, it was "The President's March" - which was basically "Hail, Columbia", but without the lyrics (those were written later).
So, it would've sounded like this:
Sounds appropriately presidential!
48. Hua Mulan was probably Xianbei, a group of Proto-Mongolian nomads who ended up settling in northern areas of China and becoming more sedentary like the Han Chinese to the South during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.
Queen Victoria's first name was actually 'Alexandrina'.
She just chose to go by her second name when she was Queen (which monarchs have the right to do if they wish; they're often given several names, and then they pick one of them! For example, King Charles III was given the names "Charles Phillip Arthur George", so he could've picked any of those four names if he wanted)
In Elizabethan England, people used to blacken their teeth to make themselves look richer.
Back then, sugar was very rare and valuable - so, if you had blackened teeth, that was a sign that you were rich enough to afford sugar!
Cleopatra wasn’t actually Egyptian, rather, she was Greek. She was actually also born closer to the opening of the first Pizza Hut than to the pyramids being built.
Red Cloud is among the few Native Americans to beat the US military in war.
Because of the policy of "Women and children first" when saving people on board the Titanic, 74% of the women on board the ship survived, as did 52% of the children. However, only 20% of the men did (and those who did survive were initially branded as cowards).
29) Oxford University started admitting female students in 1879. They were allowed to attend lectures - but they weren't allowed to get a degree!
This state of affairs continued for over 40 years - until they finally started to award degrees to women in the 1920-21 academic year.
While the American Civil War is classified as "North vs South" sometimes it's a bit more complicated than that. You had southerners in the Union Army both from the border states that never left the Union as well as from the seceded states. Most of my ancestors were Tennessee southern unionists.