Because the ancient Egyptians saw their pharaohs as gods, they carefully preserved their bodies after death, burying them in elaborate tombs containing rich treasures to accompany the rulers into the afterlife.

 

 

After the pharaoh died, his remains were carried down into a tomb west of the Upper Nile, in the vast royal necropolis known as the Valley of the Kings. So, too, were all manner of mementos and goods from Tutankhamun’s life: disassembled chariots, a childhood gaming board, furniture, lamps, sculpture, weapons, jewelry. The tomb, a mini-labyrinth of tunnels, chambers, and blocked passageways, was sealed. Tutankhamun’s followers had done what they could to equip the pharaoh for a safe journey through the underworld to a joyful afterlife.

 

 

In the 19th century, archeologists from all over

George Gipp was born on February 18, 1895 and died on December 14, 1920 in South Bend, Indiana.

 

 

Gipp was an American football player, and the one whom Knute Rockne referred to  when he said "win one for the Gipper."

 

 

According to Rockne, while Gipp was on his deathbed with pneumonia, he said:

 

 

 

In 1928, Rockne used this quote in a halftime speech to inspire Notre Dame to upset undefeated Army 12-6.

Iwo Jima translates as “Sulfur Island”, a name that gives s

Despite being an exceptionally cold and windy day, the Dedication saw a footfall of more than 800 people, which took place on the monument grounds.

 

“First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” President Chester Alan Arthur opened his dedicating speech with this line as he remembered the first American President and his service to his country.

 

 

As early as 1783, when Washington was very much alive, plans were in the works for erecting a large statue of the first president on horseback near the Capitol building. In fact, the architect of Washington, D.C., the French landscape engineer Charles Pierre L'Enfant, left an open place for the statue in his drawings. And that's almost exactly where the Washington Monument sits

He also suffered partial amnesia as a result of his injuries. Woodard further testified that he was punched in the eyes by police several times on the way to the jail, and later repeatedly jabbed in his eyes with a billy club.

 

 

Woodard's eyes had been "gouged out"; historical documents indicate that each globe was ruptured irreparably in the socket.

 

The attack left Woodard completely and permanently blind. Suffering from partial amnesia, he was fined $50 and denied medical treatment for

During World War I, the staff, roving reporters, and illustrators of the Stars and Stripes were veteran reporters or young soldiers who would later become such in the post-war years. It was published by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.

 

 

The Stars and Stripes was then an eight-page weekly which reached a peak of 526,000 readers, relying on the improvisational efforts of its staff to get it printed in France and distributed to U.S. troops.

 

 

And yet, the history of the newspaper goes back even further. On November 9, 1861, during the Civil War, soldiers of the 11th, 18th, and 29th Illinois Regiments set up camp in the Missouri city of Bloomfield. Finding the local newspaper's office empty, they decided to print a newspaper about

In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest Black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg’s youth wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid—South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful Black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government.

 

 

In 1961, he was arrested for treason, and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island Prison, he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. In

"I suggested we use a strong cloth tape to close seams, and make tab of same. It worked fine, I showed it to different government inspectors they said it was all right, but I could never get them to change tape."

 

 

Roosevelt liked the idea and sent it to the War Production Board who implemented her tape idea. They made a tape using woven fabric, known as "duck cloth", coated in waterproof plastic with a layer of rubber-based adhesive and could be torn by hand without the need for scissors. The tape worked great on ammo boxes and soon GIs found it

February 3, 1943. Four U.S. Army Chaplains die after giving up their life jackets to save others. At 12:55 am, the The Dorchester, a 5,649 ton civilian liner, is torpedoed by the German submarine U-223 off Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.

 

 

The torpedo knocks out the Dorchester's electrical system, leaving the ship dark. Panic sets in among the men on board, many of them trapped below decks. The chaplains calm the men and organize an orderly evacuation of the ship, and help guide wounded men to safety. As life jackets are passed out to the men, the supply runs out before each man has one.

 

 

The chaplains help others board lifeboats and give up their own life jackets when the supply runs out. The chaplains join arms, say prayers, and sing hymns as they go down with the ship.

 

“As I swam away from the ship, I looked back. The flares had lighted everything. The bow came up high and she slid under. The last thing I saw, the Four Chaplains were up th

On February 6, 1935, the board game Monopoly first went on sale. The game was created by Charles B. Darrow and sold to Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers initially rejected the game as "too complicated, too technical, [and it] took too long to play".

 

In early 1935, however, the company heard about the game's excellent sales during the Christmas season of 1934 in Philadelphia and at F.A.O. Schwarz in New York City. Robert Barton, President of Parker Brothers, contacted Darrow and scheduled a new meeting in New York City. On March 18th, Parker Brothers bought Darrow's game, helped him take out a patent on it, and purchased his remaining inventory.

 

 

Darrow derived Monopoly from The Landlord's Game created by Lizzie Magie in 1903. Magie's game had two sets of rules: an anti-monopolist set in which all were rewarded when wealth was created, and a monopolist set in which the goal was to create monopolies and crush opponents. After Darrow sold the rights to the game to Par