Category: Omnibit

The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1922 during which time it conquered Arabia, North Africa and a large part of Europe, and was a major world power. It is named for Osman Gazi, whose decedents ruled it for its entirety. The dynasty remains and Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu heads it. Osmanoğlu is  an American citizen. and worked in the New York Public Library. He’s 91.

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The first city to have to reached 100,000 population is thought to have been Ur in present day Iraq in 2100 B.C. The first city to hit one million  is Alexandria, Egypt in 100 B.C. albeit there are those who claim it was Rome 100 years later.

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 What’s a calendula? It’s a marigold. It’s October’s flower. Calendula means little calendar in Latin.  Marigold refers to the Virgin Mary.

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Most people — about 70 percent — survive a cobra bite. The flip side is that 30 percent don’t.

Think of it like a bowl of Skittles were three out of every 10 would kill you.

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It was not until 681 A.D. when the Damnatio ad bestias — the practice of sentencing prisoners to be eaten alive by animals in an arena — was banned in Rome.

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The oldest music scores still able to be understood by modern scholars are that of Kassiani, a Byazntine abbess who is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and who lived between 810 and 865 A.D. Her Hymn of Kassiani is still song every Holy Wednesday in that tradition.

 

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One in 10 Icelanders are published authors.

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The great scout Kit Carson married a Cheyenne woman named Making Out Road. The marriage was turbulent and ended when Making Out Road threw Kit’s belongings out her tepee in the traditional fashion of Cheyenne divorce.

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Mao Anying was Chairman Mao Tse Tsung’s oldest son. He was assigned to a headquarters unit during the Korean War far from the battlefield. While cooking some egg-fried rice, however, a South African aircraft crew saw the smoke. Hence ended a possible Mao dynasty for China.

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Great Plains Indians were the tallest people in the world in the late 19th century.

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