Though it might've been used to reenact some naval battles early on (which is the subject of some debate), the original Colosseum floor was soon replaced by levels of subterranean passages which would've made it impossible.
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History facts that pretty cool
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the source i saw only said '70 million mummies' but not what kind. your source would trump mine. :(Wait, isn't this number for animal mummies, not people mummies?
70 million animal mummies: Egypt’s dark secret
The Ancient Egyptians didn't just mummify their dead human ancestors, they also mummified animals - in their millions.www.bbc.com
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A grandson of one of Napoleon's brothers (who ruled one of the Bonapartist kingdoms) became Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, and then Attorney General.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte
Reading up on that on Wikipedia, Charles Bonaparte's late grand uncle's widow married the older brother of the Duke of Wellington.
Basically the widow of Napoleon's brother in law married the Duke of Wellingtons older brother in her second marriage.
I think it's crazy in the sense that someone not yet famous gets to be in a video in 1941. What a treat this video is.
There was a period of around 18 years where one of the Wright brothers and Neil Armstrong were alive at the same time
This is a wonderful thread, I'd just like to thank the OP for making it and for everyone contributing
A lot happened in a very short time period, when you think about it. My great-grandmother saw the invention of the first horseless carriages and also saw man walk on the moon.
I remember her rambling at one point about how her uncle lost his right arm in the Civil War. Turns out it wasn't her uncle, it was her father. Here I am, a dumb kid listening to his great-grandma ramble on about ancient history, having no idea that I should be asking her about all the things she'd seen. Probably would have blown my little mind. Even now I can hardly wrap my head around personally knowing someone who, in turn, personally knew someone who fought in the Civil War.
Oh right. At one point, there was a little domain on the edges of Russia and Qing China ruled by a polish nobleman:
en.wikipedia.org
Jaxa (state) - Wikipedia
While Alexander the Great died young, several of his Generals kept warring for his empire for years, in part until old age. Antigonos the one-eyed was killed in battle at 80/81, Lysimachus was killed und battle at 79 and Seleucus was assassinated at 77 while on route to invade Macedonia.
During the late Paleozoic to late Triassic, our continents were all merged together. It was a supercontinent known as Pangea. Traveling must of been so nice and simple back then. Dinosaurs had it good
Another thing many people aren't aware of is that, before that, the continents broke up and merged a bunch of times too. Pangea is a cyclical occurrence rather than a unique thing.
I wish I could be alive to see the next merger. Dinosaurs were lucky
Slight correction: 12 hours refers to the earliest walking hominids. Homo sapiens makes up roughly the last 25 minutes of NYE. According to this anyway:
Crazy how we accomplished so much in so little time. This chart really illustrates the genius of humankind.Slight correction: 12 hours refers to the earliest walking hominids. Homo sapiens makes up roughly the last 25 minutes of NYE. According to this anyway:
Yeah but...
Extinction: 'Time is running out' to save sharks and rays
Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an "alarming" rate.
www.bbc.com
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Having a single giant continent meant there was no way for the water cycle to work for large parts of the world's landmass that wasn't near the coastline. At best, you had fertile river valleys like the Nile breaking up the vast deserts that made up the interior.
Also, with no landmasses to slow them down, hypercanes formed on the world sea and regularly hit the coast like the fist of an angry god.
European mercenaries of the Renaissance era would have considered outlandish JRPG character designs peak military aesthetics.
Now I want so see a "dark and gritty" historical RPG with characters dressed like that.
They also used to have as ridiculous codpieces as possibleEuropean mercenaries of the Renaissance era would have considered outlandish JRPG character designs peak military aesthetics.
It blows my mind that Winston Churchill fought in his first battle (The Battle of Omdurman) wielding a lance on horseback.
Ones I learned from Epic Rap Battles of History:
• Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair.
• Before she was a cook, Julia Child worked for the OSS (predecessor to the CIA) where she helped develop shark repellent to protect US naval mines from being detonated by curious sharks.
Ones I learned from Epic Rap Battles of History:
• Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair.
• Before she was a cook, Julia Child worked for the OSS (predecessor to the CIA) where she helped develop shark repellent to protect US naval mines from being detonated by curious sharks.
European mercenaries of the Renaissance era would have considered outlandish JRPG character designs peak military aesthetics.
Their clothes were outlandish because they only had a few things to spend their salaries on. It also became something of a competition among the mercenaries to have the most extreme clothes. For a period of time in the 17th century their pant legs increased in size until they merged into a single pant leg. In other words: for a short while the height of mercenary fashion was to wear a skirt.
Salt was the first white gold, sugar was the second. The average person in the Middle Ages had much healthier teeth than the people who came after them.
When Guglielmo Marconi showed of the new wireless telegraph in a fancy public ceremony in 1903, the British magician Nevil Maskelyne hacked into Marconis frequency and made the telegraph repeat the word "rat" in front of a dewilded audience. After that Maskelyne sent a poem that boiled down to calling Marconi a liar for all to hear.
Maskelyne later explained that he did it to show that Marconis claims about the telegraph being a private and secure system was far from true. The incident is usually considering the first instance of hacking in history.
Maskelyne later explained that he did it to show that Marconis claims about the telegraph being a private and secure system was far from true. The incident is usually considering the first instance of hacking in history.
Finally made it through this thread. Watched!
I was learning about Medieval life recently.
The thing that factored in there was basically the weather. Firstly the moment it's dark, you're going back to your home until it's light again. Secondly if you're in a territory with seasonal weather, that's somewhere between 25-50% of the year taken out as temperate enough for work.
Honestly it sounded boring AF.
The thing I take away from this isn't human accomplishment in the last hour, it's how quickly life appeared after the Earth formed.
I was learning about Medieval life recently.
The thing that factored in there was basically the weather. Firstly the moment it's dark, you're going back to your home until it's light again. Secondly if you're in a territory with seasonal weather, that's somewhere between 25-50% of the year taken out as temperate enough for work.
Honestly it sounded boring AF.
Slight correction: 12 hours refers to the earliest walking hominids. Homo sapiens makes up roughly the last 25 minutes of NYE. According to this anyway:
The thing I take away from this isn't human accomplishment in the last hour, it's how quickly life appeared after the Earth formed.
Yeah it's surprising, I thought it was several billions of years without life too, but bearing in mind that for a long long part of life's history on Earth it was still just unicellular, that's less surprising. It took until "August" of the metaphorical year for multi-cell organisms to appear, and those were still just mostly micro-organisms. Fungi, fish, insects and plants only appeared in November. :O