Posts under ‘I did not know that’

Hi All Today I will be taking a look at something that has stood up and made me take notice. In the “Nothing good will come of this” Catergory. View Larger Map North Korea wants to launch a bliksemse big rocket into space.  They claim that it is a communications satellite and that it is a peaceful [...]

Hi all Going back to a something I have done in the past,  my "On this day in history" post for today is this: On this day in 1897: Swiss cutlery-maker Carl Elsener patents his penknife as a ‘useful pocket tool’ – later to become known as the Swiss Army Knife. And now you know!

Hi All On this day in 1792 the building of the White House began with the laying of the first corner stone.  The White House is the official home and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. The house is built of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style. It [...]

Hi All On this day, in 1519 Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador who won Mexico for Spain. Cortés left Spain for the New World at age 19, joining Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (b. 1465-d. 1524) in the conquest of Cuba (1511). In 1519, with 508 men and 16 horses, he burned his ships on Mexico’s [...]

Hi All On this day in 1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested in South Africa for leading a march of Miners.  He was marching for the rights of Indian immigrants. Mohandas K. Gandhi studied law in England, then spent 20 years defending the rights of immigrants in South Africa. In 1914 he returned to India [...]