History - August 2006

Think about it, written history depends on who was in power at the time doesn't it. What do you think?

2006-08-10 18:27:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

....he might just have saved his crown and inadvertently helped George III keep his American colonies. I do not know enough about the American War of Independence to know if the French influenced the outcome, but if it did it kind of makes ol' Louis the accidental architect of Liberty, no?

Which is ironic coz Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness were denied to him and his family by the revolutionaries

2006-08-10 18:10:36 · 6 answers · asked by dws2711 3

Isn't this fact astonishing? How can something so big that happened in your lifetime be so irrelevant to one's life? I heard this fact this afternoon on a radio station and THEN the DJ went on to say that 95% know what the date was (as in Sept. 11)... How could you NOT KNOW?! Sometimes I wonder what this world i coming to.

So I just wanted to know your opinions on these two facts.

(I know what year it happened, so please don't leave responses saying: 2001!)

2006-08-10 17:59:29 · 21 answers · asked by Sarah 4

2006-08-10 17:26:20 · 6 answers · asked by PUBIC L 1

The most common place for mining the wax is in northern New Jersey, but it is also bountiful in western Canada. Right this minute, there are about 97,000 miners mining for beeswax in North America alone. Currently Sony Electronics owns the rights to 90% of the beeswax mines on the Western Hemisphere.

Factoid: In the early 1800's beeswax was first discovered in an abondoned coal mine in north west Japan. The man who discovered it managed to obtain 17 tons of the wax, by mining it. When a friend of him ask to borrow some, his response was "Mine your own beeswax!" Of course the person was American, and misinterpretted the man for saying "Mind your own beeswax!" due to his Japanese accent, hence the expression.

2006-08-10 17:05:13 · 12 answers · asked by Good Vibrations 2

2006-08-10 16:27:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-10 16:24:50 · 18 answers · asked by Mr. Bodhisattva 6

2006-08-10 16:02:34 · 7 answers · asked by crownvic64 4

2006-08-10 14:38:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-10 14:18:19 · 5 answers · asked by hillbillydad 1

Around the year 1818, how long would it have taken to sail from Lower Canada (Quebec) to England? And please don't just say 'a few weeks'. I'd rather something more specific. Thanks.

2006-08-10 13:39:46 · 3 answers · asked by Danielle N 1

2006-08-10 13:09:07 · 23 answers · asked by ? 5

What do you like about her and what is most meomrable or what did you not like about her?

2006-08-10 12:52:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

found a large old Cemetary with about 80% of the graves that were ledgable being that of children 1 year old or younger. The dates of these children ranged from 1880 to 1910. What happened near the town of Pearisburg Virginia for so many children to die in this 30 year perod of time? The oldest grave that had a stone that could be read was that of Captain George Pearis of the United States Calvery who died in 1810. the cemetary has about 150 graves in it and about 115 to 120 of the graves belonged to children between the ages of 1 day old to 1 year old, and they all died in this 30 year period of time. My question is what happened to all these children? Please send possible answers to me at trkrman2004@yahoo.com. Thank you.

2006-08-10 12:41:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need some web sites on abolition. ones that are really good and and have a lot of information about it. Like, the groups that were involved, and how successful they were and how they worked towards the abolitionist cause.

2006-08-10 12:14:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Give some detail about the history/event, perhaps the era, also why and what would you have done? Let us rather skip the disasters from the past as they are sensitive! We would all want to change the 9/11 event!

2006-08-10 11:45:37 · 45 answers · asked by Sunbeam 5

As long as it is I will read it. Best one gets best answer. DUH Oh unless it's about like, actual history. : (

:D peace

2006-08-10 11:39:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-10 11:37:49 · 7 answers · asked by opjames 4

2006-08-10 11:28:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm looking for information on arts and crafts, joust matches, living in a castle, for a chapbook poetry series of them. Any history buffs out there?

2006-08-10 11:02:12 · 7 answers · asked by Kristen H 6

Was there a time of total global peace (sigh)?????

2006-08-10 10:55:44 · 13 answers · asked by a.liya 1

of course i was born and still in america "the land of freedom" yeah right. but anyway wasn't there a football who was offered a 6.3 million dollar contract but he wanted to fight for his country instead which i thought was (for lack of better words) stupid and he died. honestly i don't see why people want to go to war but that's just my opinion. what do you think?

2006-08-10 10:36:42 · 19 answers · asked by jdukenumber1 4

of course i was born and still in america "the land of freedom" yeah right. but anyway wasn't there a football who was offered a 6.3 million dollar contract but he wanted to fight for his country instead which i thought was (for lack of better words) stupid. honestly i don't see why people want to go to war but that's just my opinion. what do you think?

2006-08-10 10:35:52 · 10 answers · asked by jdukenumber1 4

2006-08-10 09:16:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

California used to be Calif. etc..... anyway, I used to think (Calif) stood for: Come and live in Florida! Just kidding, but really, what was the need to go to 2 letters rather the old abbreviation??

2006-08-10 09:03:40 · 11 answers · asked by J. P. 7

2006-08-10 08:53:53 · 10 answers · asked by Pezhy 2

2006-08-10 08:46:18 · 4 answers · asked by legoned2 1

2006-08-10 08:31:52 · 6 answers · asked by FauxPas 2

2006-08-10 08:15:33 · 4 answers · asked by Joey M 1

2006-08-10 08:02:08 · 9 answers · asked by plusprod 1