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    Posted: 11-Apr-2006 at 05:29
Originally posted by FrankFry

Columbus was born in Genoa and emigrated to Lisbon afterwards.



No one knows where he was born.....
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...Mozart proposed to Marie Antoinette in his childhood... 

Really?  Talk about a what if.

The battle of Kursk (1943) was the largest battle in history.
"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."--Thomas Mann

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Apr-2006 at 19:11
Columbus was born in Genoa and emigrated to Lisbon afterwards.

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Sir Thomas Crapper, attributed to inventing the flush toilet, was a nephew of Queen Elizabeth.
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Posts: 356 		  Quote white dragon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Apr-2006 at 12:34
Originally posted by FrankFry

After the Olympics were held in London, the length of marathon became 42,195km.




do you mean meters? that seems a little far...
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Originally posted by Frederick Roger

Originally posted by FrankFry


Spanish captain Columbus was from Portugal.

It was Basque sailors who made up the bulk of Columbus's crew.
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Originally posted by FrankFry


Spanish captain Columbus was from Portugal.

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Spanish captain Magellan was from Portugal.
Spanish captain Columbus was from Genoa.
Lincoln was assassined by gun in 1863 and Kennedy was murdered by gun some 100 years later(1865). Vice-president whose name is Johnson succeeded to president in both cases.
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Because Louis14 had all teeth pulled, he often had loose bowels.
Louis14 was getting roundworms.
Stalin and Mussolini and Hitler were short men.
Men must play naked in the ancient Olympics. Women couldn't join and see.
Boycott was a man's name originally.
When Turkey besieged Viena, coffee came to Europe and croissants were made first.
Tins were made by Napoleon first.
FrederickII, who was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, could speak Arabic.
The home of corn, tomato, potato, peanut, and cacao were the American continent.
Kamehameha went to Japan to give Hawaii.
Jesus was a Jew.
Michelangelo and Leonard da Vinci hated each other.
Mozart proposed to Marie Antoinette in his childhood.
Yang-kuei-fei was an Iranian fat woman.
Cleopatra was a Greek.
In the age of the ancient Roman, there was a man who bought the place of emperor at auction. But he was killed shortly.
After the Olympics were held in London, the length of marathon became 42,195km.
The Eiffel tower wGerman ace pilot "Adolf Gaarand" was such a heavy smoker that he had the only fighter of Luftwaffe equipped with a cigarett lighter.
"Russia" derives from "Russ" a tribe of Viking.
Long long ago a Chinese general buried 200 thousands prisoners, so a part of their bones sometimes appear at present.
The width of rail is the length of Stephenson's stick.
Before the invention of paper, Europeans wrote characters on sheepskins, and Chinese did on bamboo.
The SAS succeeded in stealing a manual of the newest Russian tank to get its information in the period of the Cold War. But when a French officer applied for visiting to watch the tank afterweard, he was permitted easily.
The models of C3P0 and R2D2 are Japanese characters of Kurosawa movie.
as planned to remove after world expo.
Lucas was going to use classical music as the theme song of Star Wars.

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