S e u o n g Posted October 17, 2020 Posted October 17, 2020 This time we want to tell you several historical data that you probably did not know. The longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly that lasted 335 years, from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties. Investigators believe that the horrific expressions on the famous Guanajuato mummies are the result of the victims being buried alive. It is said that a famous Native American named Blackbird loved his horse so much that he was buried riding on it. Before alarm clocks existed, the methods of awakening were as varied as they were strange. Men and women known as Knocker-Uppers roamed the streets of major cities in England and Ireland armed with long sticks. Her job was literally to tap on all the windows to wake their occupants. In some cases they also used blowguns to shoot pebbles at the windows. Historical facts Lasting 45 minutes (approximately), the Anglo-Zanzibarian War is the shortest war recorded in history. The battle was carried out by the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Russian Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin survived by being poisoned, shot and stabbed numerous times before he died years later. A woman named Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and her brother, The Britannic. David Bushnell designed the Turtle, the first submarine used in combat. It received this name because it was built by joining two caps that had the shape of a turtle shell. The ship, as a submersible, worked, but its first use in history as an offensive weapon was a failure. The screw failed to pierce the enemy ship's case and the pilot gave up. He dropped the explosive charge into the water, and when it detonated, it made no dent. Cleopatra was not Egyptian, she was actually Greek, a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy. Albert Einstein may have been president of Israel in 1952, but the German physicist refused.
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