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Amazing historical factoids

#21
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"During the 1890’s Mark Twain struck up a friendship with inventor Nikola Tesla. Twain often visited Tesla in his lab, where in 1894 Tesla photographed the great American writer in one of the first pictures ever lit by phosphorescent light.

Phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. When exposed to light radiation of a shorter wavelength, a phosphorescent substance will glow, absorbing the light and reemitting it at a longer wavelength."


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#22
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"Edgar Allen Poe’s 1838 novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, tells the story of four crewmen on a whaling ship who end up stranded. In order to survive, the crewmen draw lots to see who among them should be eaten. The lot lands on their cabin boy, Richard Parker. Forty-six years later, four crewmen aboard the yacht Mignonette capsized on their way to Sydney from London. Three of the crewmen decided to eat and kill the youngest and weakest among them – their nineteen-year-old cabin boy, Richard Parker."--The Internet
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"Klerksdorp spheres are strange, 3 billion-year-old rocks found near Ottosdal, South Africa. Archaeologists found the rocks with marks and lines along the sides. To this day, no one has been able to fully explain the marks.

Scientists state that only intelligent life could’ve made the markings, but the stones date back way before the time of Hominids. However, some scientists claim that natural weathering created the grooves and marks."


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#27
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A little more impressive than the Moqui Marbles in Utah.

"The latitudinal ridges and grooves of the Moqui marbles are more pronounced and irregular than seen in the Klerksdorp (Ottosdal) concretions because they formed in sand that was more permeable than the fine-grained volcanic material in which the Klerksdorp (Ottosdal) concretions grew."

(Apr 28, 2023 04:59 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: "Klerksdorp spheres are strange, 3 billion-year-old rocks found near Ottosdal, South Africa. Archaeologists found the rocks with marks and lines along the sides. To this day, no one has been able to fully explain the marks.

Scientists state that only intelligent life could’ve made the markings, but the stones date back way before the time of Hominids. However, some scientists claim that natural weathering created the grooves and marks."


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#28
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The Germans and British soldiers paused the war for a day on Christmas Day 1914. They sang, drank and celebrated together. They even had a match of football
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#29
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"Most forty-niners from the Midwest and many from the East traveled West on the Oregon-California Trail. Travel by ship was costly. Maps and books promised a quick and easy overland voyage. But for many gold seekers who traveled overland, the journey would be the hardest they had ever experienced.

Forty-niners usually traveled in covered wagons pulled by oxen or mules. A few rode horses. Once they passed frontier towns like Independence, Missouri, they entered the wilderness. Many of the forty-niners were from cities like Boston or New York. They had never camped outdoors, hunted for food, or built a fire. And now they faced months far from civilization.

In 1849, some 32,000 gold-seekers went West on the trail through present-day Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada. They endured violent thunderstorms, torrential rain, and scorching heat. They traveled mile after mile of bumpy trails that choked their throats with dust in dry weather and turned to mudholes when rain fell. They lost their belongings and even their lives trying to cross rivers such as the Platte, the Green, and the Bear.

Many gold-seekers feared attack by Native Americans. But this seldom happened. Disease was the biggest killer. Forty-niners fell victim to cholera, mountain fever, pneumonia, and diphtheria. Hundreds of gold-seekers died and were buried along the trail.

The strain took a toll on the oxen and mules as well. As they traveled, forty-niners lightened the load by throwing out everything they didn't need--from cookstoves and furniture to barrels of flour. Still, thousands of animals died from exhaustion or thirst and were left to rot in the sun.

Near the end of their journey, the forty-niners crossed the Forty Mile Desert, a hot, dry wasteland between the Humboldt and Carson rivers in present-day Nevada. Some people brought enough water for the crossing. Those who did not sometimes paid for this with their lives.

Beyond the Forty Mile Desert, lay California, the land of gold. Some would find their fortunes there. Most would not. But they had survived their overland journey by a combination of bravery, cooperation, skill, and luck. The experience had changed them forever."---
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#30
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In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. The original venue was destroyed by fire in 1915. Moulin Rouge is southwest of Montmartre, in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it has a red windmill on its roof. The closest métro station is Blanche.

Moulin Rouge is best known as the birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance. Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe. Today, the Moulin Rouge is a tourist attraction, offering predominantly musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the world. The club's decor still contains much of the romance of fin de siècle France.


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