Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 April 2012 7 concentration camps

  1. Auschwitz–Birkenau - Poland
  2. Bełżec - Poland
  3. Bergen-Belsen - Nazi Germany
  4. Chełmno - Nazi Germany
  5. Dachau - Nazi Germany
  6. Gross-Rosen - Poland
  7. Koldichevo - Belarus

Friday, 23 March 2012 7 medieval facts

Thanks to Jules for today's submission.

  1. London had problem with rats, dogs and pigs in middle ages (AD13)
  2. Blood pudding was popular in the Middle Ages because the animal can be bled without killing it
  3. Trenchers where the Medieval form of sandwich
  4. Horses were often stolen in Middle Ages and then blinded to stop them walking back to their owners
  5. In Middle Ages, Carrots were not orange .. this happened later in 1700s
  6. Eating of meat on Wednesday's Friday's and Saturdays was forbidden
  7. Lepers were anybody with a skin disease.

Tuesday, 13 March 2012 7 terms used at Auschwitz

  1. Koje - crude tier of wood used as a bed for many inmates
  2. Scheisskommando - latrine-cleaning group
  3. Schutzhaeftling - "protected" prisoners
  4. Lageraelteste - "queen" of the women's camp
  5. Canada - warehouse where deportee property was stored for shipment to Germany (then bought by the public)
  6. "Organization" - stealing from the Germans, but also included any form of resistance
  7. Fuehrerstube - S. S. offices

Wednesday, 1 February 2012 7 facts about Leonardo da Vinci

  1. Born, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15 1452 in Vinci, Italy.
  2. Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina.
  3. At the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.
  4. His collection of scientific observations and inventions are collected in the Codex Leicester, now owned by Bill Gates.
  5. In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span 220m bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople. Bayazid decided not to pursue the project as it was believed that the construction was impossible.
  6. In 2006 the Turkish goverment built the 220m bridge from Leonardo's drawings.
  7. Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on May 2, 1519 from natural causes.

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 7 Swedish archaeological sites

  1. Adelsö
  2. Gamla Uppsala
  3. Gene Fornby
  4. Helgö
  5. Uppåkra
  6. Valsgärde
  7. Vendel

Friday, 20 January 2012 7 Mayan stepped pyramids

  1. Temple of the Masonry Altars at Altun Ha
  2. Calakmul
  3. Copán
  4. Chichen Itza
  5. El Mirador
  6. Temple of the jaguar at Lamanai
  7. Tikal

Friday, 2 December 2011 7 Napoleonic battles

  1. Battle of Rivoli : 14–15 January 1797
  2. Battle of the Pyramids : 21 July 1798
  3. Battle of the Nile : 1–2 August 1798
  4. Battle of Copenhagen : 2 April 1801
  5. Battle of Trafalgar : 21 October 1805
  6. Battle of Landshut : 21 April 1809
  7. Battle of Waterloo : 18 June 1815

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 7 ancient Chinese dynasties

  1. Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors - 3500-2070 BCE
  2. Xia Dynasty - 2070–1600 BCE
  3. Shang Dynasty - 1600–1029 BCE
  4. Western Zhou Dynasty - 1029–771 BCE
  5. Eastern Zhou Dynasty - 770-256 BCE
  6. Qin Dynasty - 221–206 BCE
  7. Western Han Dynasty - 206 BCE–9 CE

Friday, 7 October 2011 7 female Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

  1. 1905 - Bertha von Suttner
  2. 1931 - Jane Addams
  3. 1946 - Emily Greene Balch
  4. 1979 - Mother Teresa
  5. 1997 - Jody Williams
  6. 2004 - Wangari Muta Maathai
  7. 2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Sunday, 25 September 2011 7 British Almshouses

  1. Vachel Almshouses, Reading
  2. Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich
  3. Merchant Venturers Almshouses, Bristol
  4. Williams' Hospital, Hereford
  5. Faversham Almshouses, Faversham
  6. Great Hospital, Norwich
  7. Ewelme Hospital, Ewelme

Tuesday, 13 September 2011 7 military ranks held by Queen Elizabeth II

  1. Commander in Chief of the Royal Candadian Air Force
  2. Head of the New Zealand Defence Force
  3. Captain in the Women's Royal Army Corps
  4. Commander in Chief of the British Armed Forces
  5. Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy
  6. Junior Commander in the Auxiliary Territorial Service
  7. Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps

Thursday, 8 September 2011 7 pre Euro European Currencies

  1. Estonian Kroon
  2. Greek Drachm
  3. Dutch Gulden
  4. Slovak Koruna
  5. Austrian Shilling
  6. Portuguese Escudos
  7. Slovenian Tolar

Sunday, 4 September 2011 7 prehistoric supercontinents

  1. Gondwana (300-30 million years ago)
  2. Laurasia (300-60 million years ago)
  3. Pangaea (300-180 million years ago)
  4. Euramerica (300 million years ago)
  5. Oldredia (418-380 million years ago)
  6. Pannotia (600-540 million years ago)
  7. Rodinia (1.1 billion - 750 million years ago)

Friday, 24 June 2011 7 facts about the Great Fire of London

As this is post 1666, here are 7 facts about the tragic events of London 1666

  1. The fire started at Thomas Farrier's bakery on Pudding Lane
  2. The fire destroyed 70000 of the cities 80000 inhabitants homes
  3. Amazingly only 6 deaths were recorded, although there were probably many more that weren't recorded amongst the poor and middle-classes
  4. The heat from the fire melted the iron locks and chains of the city gates
  5. The fire burned for 4 days straight
  6. The fire eventually burned itself out when it reached the stone walls of the city
  7. After the fire Christopher Wren designed 51 churches, including St Paul's to replace ones destroyed in the blaze

Sunday, 12 June 2011 7 types of helmet

Saxon Burial Helmet
Pith Helmet
Zukinnari Kabuto
Barbute Sallet
Corinthian Helmet
Montefortino Helmet
Waterloo Helmet

Saturday, 11 June 2011 7 National Trust places we've visited

  1. Upton House
  2. Stowe Landscape Gardens
  3. Westbury Court Garden
  4. Croome
  5. Berrington Hill
  6. Buscot Park
  7. Croft Castle

Sunday, 24 April 2011 7 pharaohs of the 18th dynasty of Egypt

  1. Ahmose I
  2. Amenhotep I
  3. Thutmosis I
  4. Hatshepsut
  5. Akhenaten
  6. Smenkhare
  7. Neferneferuaten

Friday, 1 April 2011 7 battles of the War of the Roses

  1. Battle of Hedgeley Moor - Yorkish Victory
  2. Battle of Barnet - Yorkish Victory
  3. Battle of Bosworth - Henry Tudor Victory
  4. Battle of Ludford Bridge - Lancastrian Victory
  5. Battle of Mortimor's Cross - Yorkish Victory
  6. First Battle of St Albans - Yorkish Victory
  7. Second Battle of St Albans - Lancastrian Victory

Wednesday, 9 March 2011 7 gold rushes from the 1850s

  1. Queen Charlottes Gold Rush, British Columbia
  2. Victorian Gold Rush, Victoria, Australia
  3. Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, British Columbia
  4. Pikes Peak Gold Rush, Pikes Peak, Colorado
  5. Northern Nevada Gold Rush, Nevada, USA
  6. Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  7. Rock Creek Gold Rush, British Columbia

Tuesday, 8 March 2011 7 influencial women

  1. Ada Lovelace
  2. Marie Curie
  3. Margaret Thatcher
  4. Mother Teresa
  5. Sylvia Pankhurst
  6. Elizabeth Fry
  7. Florence Nightingale