random fact game

[tired]

Germany lost 136 Generals, which averages out to be 1 dead General every 2 weeks

[John81]

Patrick Henry was born May 29, 1736.

[Wilchbla]

On June 7, 1905 the union between Sweden and Norway was dissovled with Sweden recognizing Norway as a seperate constitutional monarchy on October 26, 1905.

[Wilchbla]

James Fenimore Cooper's (The Last if the Mohicans) writing career began at the age of 30 from a dare by his wife to write a better novel.

[Wilchbla]

The "Thousand Islands" is the name of an archipelago of islands in the Saint Lawrence River between upstate New York and Canada. There is a total of 1,793 islands in the chain.

[John81]

The roots of Memorial Day comes from Southern women tending to and placing flowers on the graves of Confederate soldiers each spring. This idea caught on in States outside the South. Eventually this practice became so common it was made into a national holiday at the end of May, to provide for better weather in the more northern States...Memorial Day was typically in April in the South.

[Guest Guest]

In the Irish potato famine, many in Ireland starved, and about a million of them emigrated to the United States during its course.

[John81]

Contemporary Southern Black man confronting historical lies put forth as fact:

Buncombe Civil War trail markers dedicated

From: hk.edgerton@gmail.com

On Friday May 22, 2009, I would learn from the Honorable Roger McCredie, the Director of the Southern Legal Resource Center, that the Buncombe County Tourism and Heritage Council would hold a Dedication Ceremony to unveil the so called North Carolina Civil War Trails Buncombe County Markers. When I heard that 6 of the 13 markers would include the voices of the African Americans in Western North Carolina prior to 1865, the hairs on the back of my neck began to prickle. I suspected that this was going to be some more Yankee Revisionist History to discredit the Honorable Confederate soldiers and the Christian Southern White folks and the honorable stand made to protect our homeland from the Yankee invasion. I would adorn the uniform of the Southern soldier, and attend the event.

It didn't take long for my suspicions to be confirmed. At the front door of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, which is directly at the hub of tourist activity of this tourist town , draped in a yellow ribbon was the first so called Historical Marker loaded with a Yankee message designed to inflame negative feelings toward the brave Confederate soldier and White folks in this southern town. Poor old slave whose actions if they had been at a Union jail would have cost him his life immediately; was only beaten. Why was this marker even here ? Those Southern White men and arguably Southern Black men who call themselves Southern and especially those who are natives of Asheville should demand it's removal immediately , and ask for a more appropriate Marker and withhold any support for maintenance fees for this atrocity until it is removed.

As if the Marker was not bad enough, the keynote speaker, John Inscoe from the University of Georgia would tell those gathered which included a contingent of young Black students how Union General George Stoneman on his raid of Asheville had come to emancipate the African slave populous in the city. I would call him to task for that poppycock. I told him it was no emancipation when those Africans who followed the Union army because they had looted the town, killing livestock and stealing all the food stuffs, only to find out that the so called Union refugee camps were death camps for malaria, dysentery, the raping of women and young boys and the denial of medical care as they were left to die where they fell. To include that the scalawag Stoneman had promised not to sack Asheville after taking money and supplies for that promise, only to have his men double back from the City of Morganton which they burned and looted, then looted Asheville. People thought it was snowing in the city as so many feather beds were ripped up as the Yankees searched for any hidden valuables that might be in the beds.

Never mind that there right at Pack Place in the heart of the city where the largest monument in the city is located, (Zebulon Vance Monument; War Between the States Governor and Confederate Colonel ) the spot where more citizens would sign up to join the Confederate army than any other place in the region, and ironically for me the place where alongside my baby brother, Terry Lee and the Honorable Kirk D. Lyons and his young sons, I would began the Historic March Across Dixie donned in the uniform of the Southern Soldier, carrying his glorious flag, some twenty miles a day, six days a week 1,600 miles to the Capitol City in Austin, Texas, not only to seek another injustice perpetrated against my Southern family ( the removal of the Confederate Seal and Testimonial plaque of the Honorable General Robert E. Lee ) , but also giving testimony all along the way of the place of honor and dignity earned by those who looked like me alongside a man that he not only called Master, but also family and friend in defense of our homeland," the Southland of America".

Maybe the day was not a total tragedy, for the Honorable Kaye Myers of the North Carolina Division of Tourism, after hearing my complaints would promise to do a living history interview with me, and just maybe we can undo some of the dishonor levied against my Southern family and the cause that took them to war against their brothers of the North.

HK Edgerton

[HappyChristian]

In the Irish potato famine' date=' many in Ireland starved, and about a million of them emigrated to the United States during its course.[/quote']
My great-grandpa being one...

The potato famine actually spread over much of Europe

[Wilchbla]

Despite popular thinking, the Black Plague (Bubonic) did not orginate in Europe but in Central Asia.

[John81]

JOHN HARPER
True Hero on the Titanic


John Harper was born to a pair of solid Christian parents on May 29th, 1872. It was on the last Sunday of March 1886, when he was thirteen years old that he received Jesus as the Lord of his life. He never knew what it was to "sow his wild oats." He began to preach about four years later at the ripe old age of 17 years old by going down to the streets of his village and pouring out his soul in earnest entreaty for men to be reconciled to God.

As John Harper's life unfolded, one thing was apparent...he was consumed by the word of God. When asked by various ministers what his doctrine consisted of, he was known to reply "The Word of God!" After five or six years of toiling on street corners preaching the gospel and working in the mill during the day, Harper was taken in by Rev. E. A. Carter of Baptist Pioneer Mission in London, England. This set Harper free to devote his whole time of energy to the work so dear to his heart. Soon, John Harper started his own church in September of 1896. (Now known as the Harper Memorial Church.) This church which John Harper had started with just 25 members, had grown to over 500 members when he left 13 years later. During this time he had gotten married, but was shortly thereafter widowed. However brief the marriage, God did bless John Harper with a beautiful little girl named Nana.

Ironically, John Harper almost drowned several times during his life. When he was two and a half years of age, he almost drowned when he fell into a well but was resuscitated by his mother. At the age of twenty-six, he was swept out to sea by a reverse current and barely survived, and at thirty-two he faced death on a leaking ship in the Mediterranean. Perhaps, God used these experiences to prepare this servant for what he faced next...

It was the night of April 14, 1912. The RMS Titanic sailed swiftly on the bitterly cold ocean waters heading unknowingly into the pages of history. On board this luxurious ocean liner were many rich and famous people. At the time of the ship's launch, it was the world's largest man-made moveable object. At 11:40 p.m. on that fateful night, an iceberg scraped the ship's starboard side, showering the decks with ice and ripping open six watertight compartments. The sea poured in.

On board the ship that night was John Harper and his much-beloved six-year-old daughter Nana. According to documented reports, as soon as it was apparent that the ship was going to sink, John Harper immediately took his daughter to a lifeboat. It is reasonable to assume that this widowed preacher could have easily gotten on board this boat to safety; however, it never seems to have crossed his mind. He bent down and kissed his precious little girl; looking into her eyes he told her that she would see him again someday. The flares going off in the dark sky above reflected the tears on his face as he turned and headed towards the crowd of desperate humanity on the sinking ocean liner.

As the rear of the huge ship began to lurch upwards, it was reported that Harper was seen making his way up the deck yelling, "Women, children and unsaved into the lifeboats!" It was only minutes later that the Titanic began to rumble deep within. Most people thought it was an explosion; actually the gargantuan ship was literally breaking in half. At this point, many people jumped off the decks and into the icy, dark waters below. John Harper was one of these people.

That night 1528 people went into the frigid waters. John Harper was seen swimming frantically to people in the water leading them to Jesus before the hypothermia became fatal. Mr. Harper swam up to one young man who had climbed up on a piece of debris. Rev. Harper asked him between breaths, "Are you saved?" The young man replied that he was not.

Harper then tried to lead him to Christ only to have the young man who was near shock, reply no. John Harper then took off his life jacket and threw it to the man and said, "Here then, you need this more than I do..." and swam away to other people. A few minutes later Harper swam back to the young man and succeeded in leading him to salvation. Of the 1528 people that went into the water that night, six were rescued by the lifeboats. One of them was this young man on the debris.

Four years later, at a survivors meeting, this young man stood up and in tears recounted how that after John Harper had led him to Christ. Mr. Harper had tried to swim back to help other people,yet because of the intense cold, had grown too weak to swim. His last words before going under in the frigid waters were, "Believe on the Name of the Lord Jesus and you will be saved." Does Hollywood remember this man? No. Oh well, no matter. This servant of God did what he had to do. While other people were trying to buy their way onto the lifeboats and selfishly trying to save their own lives, John Harper gave up his life so that others could be saved.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends..." John Harper was truly the hero of the Titanic!


Author Unknown. Sources for this article: "The Titanic's Last Hero" by Moody Press 1997," John Climie, George Harper, & Bill Guthrie from "Jesus Our Jubilee Ministries" in Dallas, Oregon

[Wilchbla]

In modern day Greece and most of Europe the word used for Easter is pascha or a derivative of the word pascha.

[Wilchbla]

Champ is the name of the Loch Ness type of monster that allegedly lives in Lake Champlain in upstate New York.

[Wilchbla]

Duckpin is a type of bowling game in which a smaller ball (2-4 lbs) and smaller pins are used. The bowler also gets three rolls instead of two per frame.

[Wilchbla]

Ulster is the northern most province of Ireland (there are four all together).