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Your History Your Way!

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LAWLzoR
, 04-03-2015 at 01:31 PM (1342 Views)
Hey, I'm gonna try a new series I'm going to call Your History Your Way. In this series, I will take a collection of history questions and try to answer them for you. They can be from the silliest or mondane things (i.e. how fat was King Henry VIII?) to the more serious ones (i.e. How did WWII contribute to the Civil Rights Movement in the USA during the 1960s?)

So please, answer your history questions! I can't wait to see what you guys wanna learn
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  1. Clemi's Avatar
    Ohi,
    I heard a lot about Historical silly stuff, like this post :

    https://40.media.tumblr.com/f6994d7b...icwmo8_500.png

    Any other anecdotes like that ?
  2. LAWLzoR's Avatar
    Funny/Quirky Moments/Facts in/about History/The Past////
    -When discussing about what to do before, but shortly before the French Revolution, the representatives of the common people were taking a break from a meeting with the rest of the government. They were locked out so they couldn't meet, so they decided to go to a tennis court and make the "Tennis Court Oath", the agreement to not stop until a constitution was made.
    -Way back in/around 1859 there was a guy named Joshua Norton who proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protectorate of Mexico. Now you might think everyone in San Francisco (where he lived) might avoid him, right? Wrong. They loved his regal appearances and basically just went along with it. In fact a couple of his "decrees" were made long after his death. His call for a bridge crossing and a tunnel built in San Francisco bay turned into reality with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the Transbay Tube respectively.
    -Caligula. Famous Roman emperor and mentally insane for the latter half of his rule. He wanted to declare war on Britain (at the time it was just an island, there was no country called Britain) and try to conquer it. However he FORGOT TO TELL HIS ARMY and thus DECLARED WAR ON THE SEA instead to not look so foolish. To make sure he wasn't embarrassed, he took seashells as prisoners from his war against Neptune.
    -You folks over in Britain might be more familiar with this one: Dick Turpin. After a rough childhood, he had turned his life into that of a criminals. He was a highway robber, robbing carriages and people as they went along the dirt paths he stalked. He was caught however. Not by an adventurous chase along the countryside, not by doing an accident while trying to sneak out of prison. He was caught by his handwriting. The person who taught him how to write was a letterman and he just so happened to pick up Dick Turpin's letter. Turpin at this time had gone under a different name.
    Finally I leave you with this:
    -Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France had a celebration of peace between the two nations that had long warred with each other. As part of the celebration, the two kings had a fight/wrestle match. And as you guys know, Henry VIII is not a small guy. He's a big man and rather aggressive. He ain't no push over. King Francis I of France looked to be a rather slender guy. But he won! How? He tripped Henry. Literally.