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Nazi Gold - Still Loads Missing
Nazi Gold – Still Loads Missing
During the Second World War the Nazis acquired vast amounts of gold to fund their regime and military aims.
From countries they invaded/annexed they took:
Approximately $71 million from Austria and Czechoslovakia prior to the outbreak of war
$223 million from Belgium
$193 million from the Netherlands
£131 million from other governments
Figures are in 1945 dollars.
Total estimate of above figures…
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VJ Day - 14 August 1945
VJ Day – 14 August 1945
On 14 August 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered ending WWII in the Pacific.
This followed the dropping of atomic weapons by the United States.
“Little Boy”, a 15 kiloton of TNT, uranium based bomb destroyed Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and was deployed by the B29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”.
“Fat Man”, a 21 kiloton of TNT plutonium based atomic weapon, was dropped by the B29 Superfortess…
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The First Celebrity Superstar
The First Celebrity Superstar
Way before The Beatles, Elvis and Justin Bieber, in the 19th Century, Franz Liszt, a composer from a small Hungarian town became the first person to whom the label “celebrity”was attached.
Lisztmania as it was described at the time, had all the hallmarks of what we would recognise as “-mania” today. Groupies; swooning and screaming women; and women who forgot their upbringing to be near to…
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Pyramid workers paid in vegetables
Pyramid workers paid in vegetables
Inscriptions inside the ancient pyramids in Egypt show that part of the workers pay was in beer, onions, garlic and radishes.
It is estimated that it probably took 20,000 to 30,000 men, setting stones at a rate of one every two minutes, approximately 20 years to set the 2.3 million blocks (five million tons of rock) needed to build the 481-foot-high Great Pyramid of Cheops.
Image: By Ricardo…
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Longest Time in Space
Longest Time in Space
The astronaut who has spent the longest continuous time in space is Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov who was aboard the Mir space station for 437 days 18 hours from 9 Jan 1994 to 22 March 1995.
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka holds the record for the most time spent in space overall at 879 days over 5 missions.
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka
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The Oldest Parliament The oldest Parliament in the world is the Alþingi of Iceland which was founded in 930AD.
Jesse Owens and Adolf Hitler
Jesse Owens and Adolf Hitler
Jesse Owens was a four-time gold medal winner in the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin.
It is often said that Owens was snubbed by Adolf Hitler. This is not entirely accurate.
On the first day of the Games, Hitler only congratulated German athletes. The Olympic officials insisted that he congratulate all medal winners or none at all. Hitler opted for the latter and did not attend any further…
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Winston Churchill: The Few
Winston Churchill: The Few
On August 20, 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill made a speech to the House of Commons, honouring the bravery of and expressing gratitude to the airmen who prevailed.
The most famous part of the speech is in the extract below:
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British…
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Review (Classic): Dissolution by C J Sansom
Review (Classic): Dissolution by C J Sansom
Prior to reading this book (many years ago), I read few historical fiction novels as I found them lacking in historical accuracy or the plots were tedious in the extreme. This book, and its sequels, kindled my passion, which has not abated, for the vastly improved historical fiction that has been written in recent years.
Set in Tudor England in 1537, Henry VIII has announced the dissolution of…
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Myth: George Washington’s Teeth The first President of an independent United States, George Washington's teeth were made from gold, ivory, lead and teeth extracted from animals and slaves. They were not wooden.
Myth: Mary Magdalene was a prostitute
Myth: Mary Magdalene was a prostitute
It is not mentioned in the Bible that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute.
The myth has arisen from the connection of a “sinner” who is forgiven by Jesus (Luke Chapter 7) and the introduction of Mary Magdelene; Mary of Bethany (John Chapter 11); and a Mary “…from whom seven devils were ejected”.
This myth was popularised by Pope Gregory in the sixth Century.
She whom Luke calls the sinful woman, whom…
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Myth: Napoleon's height
Myth: Napoleon’s height
There is a common misconception that Napoleon Bonaparte was small.
He was measured as five feet two inches using the French system of measurement which in the English system is five feet seven inches.
He employed particularly tall bodyguards which may have contributed to the perception that he was small.
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UFO Sighting in Ancient Egypt #History #UFO In 1933, the Director of the Vatican Museum (Egyptian Section) visited Cairo and found an interesting papyrus in an antique shop.
Socialists didn't want women to have the vote
Socialists didn’t want women to have the vote
The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) lead by Emmeline Pankhurst (labelled the Suffragettes as a term of derision by The Daily Mail newspaper) campaigned for property-owning women to have the vote from 1903 to 1917.
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst
The nascent Labour Party and other Socialists didn’t want more votes for the bourgeoisie and therefore opposed the WSPU which became more…
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Historical UK General Election Results and Suffrage
Historical General Election Results #History #GE2017 #GeneralElection #GeneralElection2017
With the upcoming General Election in the UK, it might be interesting to look at the Elections and changes in suffrage in UK history.
2017
Not yet known (as of 7 June 2017)
2015
Victory: Conservative
Prime Minister(s): David Cameron Theresa May
Majority: 16
Theresa May
Image: By Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
2011
Fixed Term Parliament Act – 5 year Parliaments which requires a…
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Tunguska: The Largest Impact Event in Recorded History
Tunguska: The Largest Impact Event in Recorded History
On the morning of 30 June 1908, a large explosion flattened 2,000 km2 of forest near the Stony Tunguska River in Eastern Siberia. There were no recorded human casualties.
Fallen trees at Tunguska, 1927
In 1930, a scientific expedition, lead by Leonid Kulik, recorded the testimony of S Semenov:
At breakfast time I was sitting by the house at Vanavara Trading Post [65 kilometres/40 miles south…
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Nostradamus Prophecies: Death of Henry II of France and the Election of Donald Trump
Nostradamus Prophecies: Death of Henry II of France and the Election of Donald Trump
Michel de Nostradame, usually anglicised to Nostradamus, wrote Les Propheties in 1555, which is a collection of over a thousand quatrains (four line poems) that have often been interpreted as prophecies of future events.
Nostradamus rejected the label of “prophet” and disliked astrologers.
However, that hasn’t stopped many commentators interpreting the undated quatrains to reflect events (usually…
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