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This area is known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).

In this ‘nothing of importance ever happens here,’ in 1811-1812, it was subjected to a series of earthquakes that were so powerful they caused the Mississippi River to reverse its flow.

It was only for a few hours, but, you know, if it DID happen before, it CAN happen again!!

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On March 2, 1889, Congress passed the Indian Appropriation Act of March 2, 1889, which allowed white people to acquire land that was previously owned by Indians. [Don’t you dare call it theft!] Any land in Oklahoma could be legally claimed and registered by white people after a rifle shot opened the land rush at 2 p.m. on April 22, 1889. Yes, there was a massive crowd of white people at the starting shot. But, you know, there are those people who cheat. They came soon and went into the open lands early and laid their claims. They were called “sooners” and the term remains to this day. [Don’t you dare call it theft!]

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Before Thomas Edison invented filmmaking, there was Louis le France. He made a number of what we now call movies and then, mysteriously, on September 16, 1890, he disappeared. The next year, Thomas Edison started his experiments with filmmaking. In 1898, when Edison sued the American Mutoscope Company,claiming he was the sole inventor of cinematography, the son of le Prince appeared in court and sued for royalties because his father had invented the process. The court ruled in Edison’s favor. A year later, the court reversed itself. Edison then revised his patents and went on to dominate the film industry. On September 16, 1897, Louis le France was declared dead and his family never received any royalties from Edison or the film industry.

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To make certain the rum the Royal Navy was buying was up to Navy standards, each shipment was tested by pursuers with gunpowder. Some grains of gunpowder were floated in the liquid and ignited using a magnifying glass. If the grains exploded, there was too much alcohol in the mix. If nothing happened, there was not enough liquor in the rum. If the gunpowder grain fizzled, it was PROOF the rum was up to Royal Navy standards. That is the origin of the word PROOF when it comes to liquor.

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“Huh?

This is the way you remember the parts of the United States Constitution

Legislative Executive Judicial Statehood Amendment Supremacy Ratification

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Contrary to what you may have seen in World War II movies, horses were an integral part of the military transportation system. Germany and Russia used six million horses, and even the United States Army had 52,000. Another little-known fact is that the United States trained 54,000 homing pigeons for combat use, of which 36,000 saw active duty. England used 250,000. After the war, 32 pigeons were given the “highest possible decorations for valor by animals,” which included the United States Army Pigeon Service’s G. I. Joe.

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During the summer of 1919, a United States Army Major was assigned to a transcontinental convoy to test the ability of the Army to traverse the country, from Washington, D. C. to San Francisco. There was no interstate in those days, so the trip took 62 days with the convoy averaging 52 miles a day. Along the way, the road was chockablock with potholes, the convoy became trapped under low bridges, and, on too many occasions, had to dig its way out of more than a few ditches. The trip convinced the Major that an interstate highway system was necessary. So he did something about it. His name was Dwight David Eisenhower.

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In 1915, Charles Hatfield, a rainmaker, was hired for $10,000 bring San Diego Rain. On January 5, 1916, he ‘made it rain.’ But it didn’t stop. The rainwater overflowed, washed out bridges, marooned trains and caused the local dam to break. Hatfield was never paid, and when he took the case to court, it ruled that the rain was “an Act of God” So, a rainmaking fee was not necessary.

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