When we think of historical facts, we
often confuse the sequence of events in history.
The Coliseum in Rome,
Italy, was unveiled in 80 A.D., about the same time the Gospel
of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible were written.
Oxford University in
England was created before the emergence of the Aztec Empire in
modern Mexico.
Tiffany & Company
is older than the nation of Italy. The Italian Republic did not
happen until 1861 and Tiffany was founded in 1837.
The Titanic sank the
same month that Boston’s Fenway Park opened during 1912 and the
same year vitamins and Oreos were invented.
The fax machine was
invented the same year the first wagon crossed the Oregon Trail
in 1843.
The Brooklyn Bridge was
being built during the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
Nintendo was founded
when Jack the Ripper was still on the loose in 1889.
Buffalo Bill Cody was
alive at the same time the Germans were bombing with Zeppelins
in 1916.
Cowboy Wyatt Earp was a
movie consultant in his later years and knew William S. Hart,
Tom Mix, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, and more. He died in
1929.
Marilyn Monroe, Chuck
Berry, Queen Elizabeth, Don Rickles, and Fidel Castro were born
the same year in 1926.
Prisoners arrived at
Auschwitz just days after the original McDonald's was founded in
May, 1940.
The guillotine was
still in use when Jimmy Carter was President of the United
States, the year the first Star Wars was released, the year
Charlie Chaplin Died, and Apple was incorporated. The last
person was beheaded by the device in France during 1977.
The first man to
achieve powered flight lived to see it accomplished at speeds
faster than sound. Orville Wright lived until 1948, a year after
a plane passed the speed of sound during 1947, and a few years
after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in 1945.
The last eligible Civil
War widow and American pensioner from the Civil War died in
2008. Pensions payable to surviving children and their spouses
continued until at least 2017. That means the United States was
continuing to incur costs related to the Civil War over 150
years after it ended.
Woolly mammoths were
still roaming the earth when the pyramids were built at Giza.
The great mammals coexisted with humans for several thousand
years and the date of their final demise is several centuries
after the construction of the pyramids.
Americans were on the
moon in July, 1969, before women in Switzerland were allowed to
vote in October, 1969.