Quirky History facts!

[Qfwfq]

Yeah, I've always had a mild suspicion he had chosen the name after the church reformer.

Originally Posted by alexander

Disagree all you want, its a fact and is posted as such, even wiki says:

I trust Devoto and Oli more than wiki, especially as to Latin and Greek etymus. βάρβαρος (thanks for the unicode) meant a non-Greek because it meant a foreigner. The term 'barbaria' doesn't mean 'barbarian' but instead a foreign country or, perhaps, a barbarian (in the sense of uncouth) act, something done by one. I had never heard a term such as barbarinus so I Googled it and apart from a few hits with the exact same sentence as the wiki you quote, it seems to be a name. One hit is this post which quotes that wiki and then, in the same post, says:

I do remember from my Latin primer that the Latin word 'barbarian' is translated into the (modern) English word 'foreigner'.

To an Englishman, the word 'foreigner' means someone not from England. To an Indian it means someone not from India...

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by alexander

a great theologian and church reformer Martin Luther,.

You mean that evil, constipated protestant?

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by alexander

Her is another quirky fact: Martin Luther King, was actually named after a great theologian and church reformer Martin Luther, King's real name was Michael and his family last name was King.

Michael Luther King, Sr. changed his and his son's first names from Michael to Martin around 1934 when MLK,Jr. was about 5 years old. Son, father, and grandfather were all preachers.

[Racoon]

In Ancient Egypt, cats were often buried with their masters, or in a special cemetery for cats.

In 1991, during an attempted political coup on Russian President Boris Yelstin, food supplies had dwindled down at the parliament buildings so they ordered Pizza Hut to deliver pizzas

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C.

In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Racoon

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

What about where asses were in charge?

In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

Did the attacker throw it at them?

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

What about where asses were in charge?



Did the attacker throw it at them?

LOL
Where do you guys get this stuff?

Alexander the great died of malaria ( I think)

[mutetongue]

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.

[Monomer]

When Theodore Roosevelt was a student at Harvard he kept a small zoo in his room which apparently included lobsters, snakes and a huge tortoise.

[mutetongue]

In the memoirs of Catherine II of Russia, it is recorded that any Russian aristocrat who displeased the queen was forced to squat in the great antechamber of the palace and to remain in that position for several days, mewing like a cat, clucking like a hen, and pecking his food from the floor.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by mutetongue

In the memoirs of Catherine II of Russia, it is recorded that any Russian aristocrat who displeased the queen was forced to squat in the great antechamber of the palace and to remain in that position for several days, mewing like a cat, clucking like a hen, and pecking his food from the floor.

Try goggling Katherine the Great and see what you get!

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