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They used to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery…if you had to do this to survive you were “Piss Poor”. But worse then that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to [...]
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Since I have been accused of not considering World History or even modern History when I write my blog site even though it is mainly on the Civil War, I thought that left an open door for a more recent trivia fact about a modern Icon. Walt Disney. This is for you to decide for yourself [...]
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A little known fact:
In 1874 the first testicular cup was used in a game of Hockey,
The helmet wasn’t introduced to a sporting event until 1974
Took 100 years for men to realize the brain was also important? LOL!!!!
I just had to share that with you!!!!!
Have a historical day!
Savannah
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Thought you might like to find out about an interesting newspaper that comes to us out of Landisville, Pa. called Old News. Its a collection of articles every month that explores different historical events, from all sorts of eras. You can find them at www.oldnewspublishing.com. The one I recently recieved had an article on Nazis Seek [...]
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In answer to the question what party was responsible for freeing the slaves and saving the Union?
The Republican Party which grew out ot the resistance to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overrode the Missouri-Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into the Western territory by popular sovereignty.
The Republican party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings. [...]
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Can you name the Five Great Indian Nations that occupied territory within the South, who also organized and fought under the Confederacy?
They are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and the Seminole.
My next series will be on this topic.
See you soon!!!!!!!!!
Savannah
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Ever since the time of Tecumseh and the horrible curse that was supposidly cast upon the Presidency of the United States by that tribe, there has been an assassination of the 0 year elected president, until President Reagan who survived his attempted assassination. Pretty Freaky, huh?
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If the United States had lost men during WWII, at the same rate the Confederacy did during the Civil War, we would not have lost 400,000 souls, we would have lost closer to 4.5 million souls. A pretty stagering figure if you ask me. This figure is based on just the Confederacy and does not [...]
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The leading cause of death for women during the 19th century was not child birth as so many of you guess!!!
The leading cause was death by fire! And, no not because their house burned down. Death by fire because of their skirts during the process of cooking over an open fire or hearth. They had [...]
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What was the leading cause of death for women during the 19th century???????????????????????
I WILL PUBLISH THE ANSWER TOMORROW OR COMMENT IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWER!!!!!!!
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