2006-06-29 22:54:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1906.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906 :
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City
cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles
of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more
heavily populated than California.
With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st
most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour.
2006-06-30 01:16:04 · update #1
Women couldn't vote.
2006-06-30 08:40:08 · answer #1 · answered by meathead76 6 · 16⤊ 2⤋
Thanksgiving is apparently a moveable feast:
"During the 1700s, it was common practice for individual colonies to observe days of thanksgiving throughout each year. A Thanksgiving Day two hundred years ago was a day set aside for prayer and fasting, not a day marked by plentiful food and drink as is today's custom. Later in the 18th century each of the states periodically would designate a day of thanksgiving in honor of a military victory, an adoption of a state constitution or an exceptionally bountiful crop.
Such a Thanksgiving Day celebration celebration was held in December of 1777 by the colonies nationwide, commemorating the surrender of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga.
Later, on October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the observance of the fourth Tuesday of November as a national holiday.
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday to the third Thursday of November (to extend the Christmas shopping season and boost the economy). After a storm of protest, Roosevelt changed the holiday again in 1941 to the fourth Thursday in November, where it stands today."
2006-06-30 06:16:18 · answer #2 · answered by FairyHoaxster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that Washington had a still at his home? And even though he's said to have had wooden teeth, no pair has ever been found--they have found several of ivory, though, and at least one pair was made by Paul Revere. Also, Benjamin Franklin was apprenticed to his brother, a printer, but he ran away--that's when he moved to Philadelphia. Finally, did you know that the Bible George Washington was sworn in on was from the New York Masonic Lodge (Lodge #1)? The Bible is on display there, and is made available to any President-elect who wants to use it, whether or not they are Masons.
2006-06-30 08:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Current trivia!! People believe there are 50 States in the US.! There are actually 47 as 3 states on the East Coast are a "confederacy"! Go on have a search and find the three.
2006-06-30 05:59:10 · answer #4 · answered by BackMan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What caused George Washington's death?
Ans:
Modern physicians believe it was strep throat. The medical treatment in those days was bleeding. Washington had been "bled" at least three times and by at least two doctors.
He never recovered.
P.S. Weelittledig is wrong. Washington had false teeth, all right, but they were made from human teeth. I believe that Benjamin Franklin manufactured them.
Do I get credit for two trivia answers?
2006-06-30 06:02:13 · answer #5 · answered by Goethe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.Where did Art Clokey get the idea for the bump on Gumby's little green head?
2.Who almost got the role of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz?Which comic did they write the lines for the Wizard for?
3.Who was the first choice for the main character in Casablanca?
4.How much older was Vivian Vance than Lucille Ball?
Pop culture,I'm not sure how early you wanted.You'll have to go to my 360 for the answers.(They'll be in the Blog)
2006-06-30 08:20:43 · answer #6 · answered by Cognito 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America where a rock and roll band in the early 70s , best know for the hit single ,horse with no name.
2006-06-30 06:02:42 · answer #7 · answered by micky k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Washington had wooden false teeth
2006-06-30 05:58:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana wasn't illegal, because the Neocons hadn't taken over yet.
You also saw the first and only decent Republican President, Teddy Roosevelt.
2006-06-30 15:45:52 · answer #9 · answered by Professor Chaos386 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham (Abe) Lincoln Had a beard
2006-06-30 06:50:32 · answer #10 · answered by Ghana Rulez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kentucky isn't a state, it's a commonwealth
2006-06-30 09:11:21 · answer #11 · answered by dragonmomof3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋