History — Page 10

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the pyramids.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built about two thousand five hundred years before Cleopatra was born. Between the…

Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Egyptian pyramids were being built.

While the Egyptians were erecting the great pyramids, a small isolated population of woolly mammoths survived on…

In fifteen eighteen, a dancing plague struck Strasbourg.

Hundreds of people began dancing uncontrollably for days or weeks. Many eventually died of exhaustion, heart attack…

George Washington did not have wooden teeth.

His famous dentures were made of ivory, gold, lead, and even animal or human teeth. The idea that they were wooden is…

The first photograph of a person took ten minutes to expose.

In the famous image of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, the street looks empty because the traffic didn't stay still…