Contrary to popular belief, Napoleon was actually slightly taller than an average Frenchman of the nineteenth century
Stanley Milgram's experiments showed that people may act in inhumane ways when ordered to do so by an
authority figure and when their peers also act in the same way
Cairo is nicknamed "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture
Imhotep is considered the founder of Egyptian medicine
The form that we now recognize as the symphony took shape in the early eighteenth century
The Akkadian Empire has been described as the first true empire in world history
The host nation for the World Cup final tournament is automatically qualified to play in the tournament
The House of Habsburg was one of the most powerful families in Europe being Holy Roman Emperors and rulers of
Austria (and the Austrian Empire) for over six centuries
Socialist revolutionary Che Guevara was born in
Argentina and received the nickname "Che" because of his frequent use of the Argentine word
Che, meaning "pal" or "mate"
The Eucharist, also known as Holy Communion, is a
sacramental reenactment of the
Last Supper between
Jesus and his disciples, in which Christians partake in the "body" and "blood" of Christ
In 1954 a teenage
Elvis Presley made his first (and only) performance at the Grand Ole Opry
Indian Railways constitutes one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting transporting six billion passengers a year
It has been predicted that the land territory of Kiribati will be submerged as sea levels rise due to global climate change.
The earliest booksellers were scribes who copied books as they were demanded
The Wyandot, an
Iroquoian confederacy of four tribes, were called the Huron by French explorers
The Empire State Building remained the tallest skyscraper in the world for over 40 years
Saint Bernadette Soubirous, patron
saint of sick persons and of Lourdes in
France, was a simple shepherd girl
The Lewis and Clark expedition trekked 4,000 miles across America and only one man died, from appendicitis
"Ka'bah" comes from the Arabic word "muka'ab" meaning
cube
The story of Cain and Abel in
Genesis tells of the first human
murder when Cain killed his brother Abel
Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister in the United States
The Netherlands is often called "Holland" although this is not accurate; North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces
About 80 percent of Greenland is covered by
ice, the world's second largest ice sheet
Gandhinagar, the capital city of the
Indian state of Gujarat, was named after
Mahatma Gandhi who was himself a Gujarati
Petroglyphs, or rock engravings, have been found dating back at least 10,000 years
Yahweh is the primary Hebrew name of
God in the Bible
Physical exercise is beneficial to both physical and mental health
The first electron microscope prototype was built in 1931 by German engineers Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll
Zero on the Kelvin scale is known as
Absolute zero, the temperature at which nothing could be colder
Patriarchy literally means "rule of fathers"
