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StolenSerenity
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 93 | August 5th, 2008 at 12:57am The last Dagny:when John smith was coming over to america he was suppose to be hanged for treason..but when they got there and they ming gave them an envolope that would tell who the leaders were and he was one..so he didnt get hung
and you know Ratcliffe..they fat guy off of pocahontas?
the indians skinned him alive..
The real John Smith was, like, in his thirties, whereas the real Pocahontas was, like, thirteen. |
StolenSerenity
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 93 | August 5th, 2008 at 01:43am All these historical-ish things happened on the same day...March 5 (my birthday). I thought it was rather interesting.
1512: Gerhardus Mercator, cartographer, probably the greatest map-maker of all time, was born in Rupelmond, Flanders (now Belgium).
1751: James Madison, the 4th President of the United States (1809-1817), was born in Port Conway, Virgina.
1770: Boston Massacre took place, in which British troops fired into a mob, killing 5 — one of the events leading up to the War of Independence.
1824: James Merrit Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame) was born.
1872: The triple air brake was patented by George Westinghouse.
1922: Annie Oakley, star attraction in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, set record for woment's trap shooting, 98/100 at Pinehurst Gun Club, North Carolina.
1924: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM.
1933: In Germany, the Nazis and their Nationalist allies receieve 52% of the seats in Reichstag. (This is the last free election until the end of World War II) |
CardiacArrest
Ink Slinger
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 829 | August 6th, 2008 at 08:45am Karean Carpender died from a struggle with anorexia.
The white house was actually grey. |
i defy you stars.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 636 | August 7th, 2008 at 04:39pm I heard Adolf Hitler had this weird thing where he liked to be peed on.
He found it sexy... (But my sources are very unreliable.)
Baha. |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10069 | August 8th, 2008 at 01:05pm Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung. |
bowl of oranges
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 4 | August 9th, 2008 at 09:17am This isn't too interesting and is pretty well known, but Midieval castles were used for military purposes, not princess, tiaras, and all things happy. |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10069 | August 9th, 2008 at 10:59am Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women.
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Bloodraine
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 1312 | August 9th, 2008 at 09:42pm People never thought the world was flat. |
Sisky Biz; Bass Wiz
Writer's Block
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 70 | August 9th, 2008 at 10:38pm Earth is the only planet not named after a Pagan God.
Scuba divers can't fart past depths of 33 feet or more. 
Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860. |
Sisky Biz; Bass Wiz
Writer's Block
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 70 | August 9th, 2008 at 10:45pm A pig's orgasum last's for thrity minutes.
Not history, but it's kinda...interesting. |
Evanescent Dasha
Ink Slinger
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 869 | August 10th, 2008 at 07:01am *In the 1500's Most people got married in June because they took their yearly
bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were
starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor
*Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
*If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
*# Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria. |
blitzkriegBOOM
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 504 | August 11th, 2008 at 03:08am ChemicallyImbalanced:Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women.
I want to go to Canada, then.
Won't have to deal with this 'Miss America" crapola... |
panic at the disco
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 463 | August 12th, 2008 at 02:30am Since 1609 researchers have found at least 80 men wtih two penis.
I think that awkward. [: |
budgie
Amateur Author
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 185 | August 13th, 2008 at 02:03am The Bastille only had seven people inside it when it was stormed :] |
The Doctor
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 2900 | August 13th, 2008 at 03:14am The Greeks had no word for blue. They thought the sky was bronze. |
Wonderland.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 714 | August 14th, 2008 at 10:26pm ~At the height of its power, in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
~The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
~Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
~The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. |
himynameisbethany
Writer's Block
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 95 | August 15th, 2008 at 08:11pm The Mona lisa has no eyebrows, It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave Your eyebrows
The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours |
CardiacArrest
Ink Slinger
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 829 | August 15th, 2008 at 10:00pm In Illinois you may be arrested for vagrancy if you do not have at least one dollar bill on your person.
In Chicago it is forbidden to fish while sitting on a giraffe’s neck.
In Chicago it is legal to protest naked in front of city hall as long as you are under seventeen years of age and have legal permits. |
anarchyinwords
Amateur Author
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 118 | August 16th, 2008 at 03:43am Bock's Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.
The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber, and the first execution by lethal gas took place in February, 1924. |
Evanescent Dasha
Ink Slinger
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 869 | August 16th, 2008 at 04:09am In the six day war Israel won the war in six days fighting against Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
The nations of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria had contributed troops to the arab side as well but Israel still defeated them. |
