10 Unbelievable Historical Concurances
Any time I read about history, I try to put it in the context of what different family members were doing at the time-- where they lived, what they might have seen, etc. This article really pushed my buttons as being interesting, because it takes disparate historical events, and compares them, in time. I think you will be amazed! (Original article here .)
1. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
2. Queen Elizabeth II is older, by 1.5 months, than Marilyn Monroe.
3. Anne Frank was born the same year as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Christopher Columbus was one year older than Leonardo DaVinci.
5. The Titanic sunk the same year that the drug "Ectacy" was first synthesized.
6. Charlie Chaplin was 4 days older than Hitler.
7. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same date.
8. The stegosaurus died out 84 million years before the tyrannosaurus. Stegosaurus died out 150 million years ago, and tyrannosaurus died out 66 million years ago.
9. The last known widow of a Civil War veteran died the same year that President Obama was first elected, (2008)
10. Wooly Mammoths still roamed the earth when the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed.
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I found these to be neat little facts that I would have never put together! Hope you enjoy!
The stegosaurus died out 84 million years before the tyrannosaurus. Stegosaurus died out 150 million years ago, and tyrannosaurus died out 66 million years ago.
Can't be true. Everyone knows that the Earth is only between 6 and 7 thousand years old.
Hmmm , so that's how they moved those heavy stone blocks ... (; ~ P
Absolutely amazing.
Some say there are no coincidences and perhaps they are right, but there are certainly very interesting concurrences of events that are surprising, interesting and informative
Thanks for sharing
Interesting information Dowser. Thanks for the post.
What an interestingway to look at things....who would have thought!! Good find Dowser!
Do you know, Dowser, just how many conspircy theories you could start with these factoids?!
Very CREATIVE.
Funny! Both of you!
Thanks! Finding pictures of everything that would fit was hard!
Oh my! NOW, we know!
thanks! I found this and had to share!
Thanks to all of you!
Oh noooo!!! Tons of them!
lolI'll bet when they were in school, they were the class clowns!!
Seems like I read a book about the Last Confederate Widow... It was Pete Longstreet's wife. But, I don't think this is her...
Love you, jennilee!
Some how the teachers never "got" my jokes or my kind of humor?
The Oxford/Aztec connection is the most mind boggling to me. Thanks for posting.
I'm glad you liked it! I haven't had much time to post much today...
It was to me, too!
Then the one about the dinosaurs got me, too...
Teachers at inner city school lose their sense of humor almost as soon as they start. I good day was less then 5 fistfights.
What gems, thanks for posting. Like others, fascinated by the wooly mammoths and the pyramids in Giza.
Hard to believe the Titanic and ecstasy are on the same time continuum! Perhaps more than just an iceberg was involved
Pretty mind-boggling, all in all...
LOL, Lynne!
9. The last known widow of a Civil War veteran died the same year that President Obama was first elected, (2008) This one I'm trying to figure out. The civil war ended in 1865. By 1950 even a 15 year old boy who just got into the war in 1865 which could have happened in the south would have been 100. Some very old 75+vet must have married a very young 20- woman between 1920-1930 and she lived near to or past 100 to make this work.
Jennilee, that one reminded me of a recentstory Icame acrossabout how two Grand Children of our tenth President are still alive today.
President John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive
Nice find Dowser, thanks.
Very, very cool story!
I thought so too Bob.
I shared the story with my daughter and tried to illustrate how bazar it was by describing it to her this way.
Me and some other old geezers are sitting around the pickle barrel playing dominoes and trying to one up each other as to how oldwe are.
I slap a spinner down and announce, "I'm so old that both of my grandpa's fought in WW II & one of them was even in WW I! (true family history that she is aware of)
Then the old guy sitting next to me makes the winning score off my play, stands and announces, "Well I'm so old my Grandpa was the President of these United States,20 years BEFORE the Civil War! Drops his mic and walks off stage. lol
Describing the story in that manner helped her see how wonderfully weirdit truly is. Plus the image it put in her head made her laugh.
Arkansas,
Time passes.
When I was a kid, I was a Civil War buff, like so many others. The Civil War seemed very real -- less than a century in the past.
Now, WWI is already a century old, and the Civil War seems like prehistory.
I wonder what happened......
True That!
Did we?
I can't remember...