Sometimes fact can be stranger than fiction and history is littered with strange tales of woe, mirth and the bizarre. Can you separate fact from fantasy?
Toby's experience comes from website design as well as experience running large forums and communities. After he married Debbie he developed a keen interest in history and found himself discussing history quite a lot!
Fact of the Day
House and Garden Magazine gave Hitler a rave review for his interior design in 1938.
Quote of the Day
"...the unequal division of property and of labour, the difference of rank and condition amongst mankind, are the sources of power in civilized life, and its moving causes, and even its very soul.
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~ Renowned C19 inventor and chemist Humphrey Davy
On This Day
1715James Stuart, 'warming pan baby' and son of deposed king James II, landed in Scotland, to lead the Jacobite Rebellion. It failed.
1808Beethoven's Fifth Symphony received its premiere. Badly performed in a freezing concert hall, it didn't receive good reviews.
1894French Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in a case of blatant antisemitism that the government tried to cover up
1895German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen took the first x-ray, of his wife's left hand
1917Peace negotiations between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Ottoman) began at Brest-Litovsk
1943Children's author, Beatrix Potter, died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease
1989The Romanian army defected to the rebels, causing the downfall of Ceausescu's government. He and his wife were executed on Christmas Day
