16,000 B.C In, the last Ice Age reached its coldest point. During this time, people in the Ukraine were living in huts made from wooly mammoth bones.
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to announce a royal birth in Great Britain.
The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.
A Decembrist was any of the conspirators against Czar Nicholas I of Russia, in December 1825.
The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands gave Ottawa, Canada, 100,000 tulip bulbs in 1945. The bulbs were a thankful gift for the safe haven which Holland’s exiled royal family received during World War II, and to recognize the Canadian troops who helped liberate the Netherlands.
The state of Texas is the only state in the nation that has been under six flags, which includes the flags of Spain, France, Mexico, the Lone Star Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States.
Prior to World War II, when guards were posted at the fence, anyone could wander right up to the front door of the White House.
Queen Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands was America's only queen.
The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.
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