Fun Random Facts In History
These are kind of fun.
Did you know...
- A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.
- During World War I, the future pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian army.
- The very first bomb dropped by allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.
History Quotes
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
3 comments:
Hilarious!!!
Aw, that elephant one is sad! I like the monkey one though! :D
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