Interesting History

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Forget about all those dates, battles & boring people - lists & lists to memorize. I love history - not history classes, because they never teach you the good stuff. The royal treachery, the peasant riots, the polygamous kings & bloodthirsty hellions. Over the years I've amassed a good amount of knowledge about most kinds of history, ancient being one of my definite favorites, but I'll address a more general history here. So you may have taken history. But do you know what really happened?

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In ________, 1888, Jack the Ripper claimed 5 women's lives in one of the most grisly serial murder cases of all time. He was never found.
- England
- United States
- Canada
- France
2

Cleopatra VII Philopator is famous, among other things, for having 'ties' with a very historically famous man. Some say men, and some argue over which man it even is. What's the truth?
- Gaius Julius Caesar
- Marc Antony
- Both
- Neither - it's a myth.
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Why did Columbus 'name' the Native Americans 'Indians?'
- He and his crew didn't know they were in the Americas; they thought they were in Asia - they simply didn't know that the Americas existed until they sailed right into them. (And technically they never knew it - Columbus died still claiming he had found a new trade route to India.)
- Columbus thought they were in India. He was trying to sail around the world to find a way to get to the Asian coast faster, and hopefully find a better trade route than going all the way around Africa's coast, which took about three months in good weather.
- He was once thrown out of the Spanish palace and even put in chains. Not revelant, but interesting nevertheless.
- All of the above.
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Which ghastly plague is the nursery song 'Ring Around the Rosy' referring to? Just so you know, three of these answers are bogus. :o
- Red Plague
- Tuberculosis
- Black Death
- Polio & Smallpox Outbreak of 1767
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Henry the VIII, of England, was told by the Catholic Church that it wasn't right to divorce his (first) wife, Catherine, who was faithful to him. (He wanted to marry another woman.) What did Henry do?
- Killed his wife, then married the other woman.
- Changed the country's religion and denomination to one that would allow divorce without question.
- Burned down the churches - including their members and clergy.
- Kept his wife and the other as a mistress.

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Interesting History

In ________, 1888, Jack the Ripper claimed 5 women's lives in one of the most grisly serial murder cases of all time. He was never found.

Cleopatra VII Philopator is famous, among other things, for having 'ties' with a very historically famous man. Some say men, and some argue over which man it even is. What's the truth?

Why did Columbus 'name' the Native Americans 'Indians?'

Which ghastly plague is the nursery song 'Ring Around the Rosy' referring to? Just so you know, three of these answers are bogus. :o

Henry the VIII, of England, was told by the Catholic Church that it wasn't right to divorce his (first) wife, Catherine, who was faithful to him. (He wanted to marry another woman.) What did Henry do?

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