Irish Traditions
St. Patrick is considered the Patron Saint of Ireland, but he was born in Britain. He was born near the end of the 4th Century to wealthy parents and was abducted by Irish Raiders and held in captivity in Ireland for 6 years. During this captivity he became a devote Christian.
He is believed [...]
Mysterious Disappearances
Since people have been keeping records there have been reports of mysterious vanishings. While some may never been fully explained many of them could have simple explanations. Here is the story of six unexplained vanishings.
In 1587 a small company made up of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children colonized the island [...]
Bell’s Telephone
The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse in 1835 and it was Alexander Graham Bell’s intention to improve on the telegraph that lead to his invention of the telephone. It was on March 10, 1876 when Bell in one room and his assistant Thomas Watson in another he shouted the words, ‘Mr. Watson [...]
When the President’s Inauguration was In March!
The 20th amendment to the United States Constitution moved the Presidential Inauguration Day from March 4th to January 20th. Franklin Roosevelt was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4th, when he took the oath of office in 1933. Four years later he became the first to take the oath on the [...]
The Truths of Washington
George Washington, the leader of the Continental Army and later the first President of the United States, thought of February 22nd as his birthday. He was born on February 11, 1731 under the Julian Calendar. The Julian Calendar was used in England, in which Virginia was a colony in 1731, but the Gregorian [...]
Presidential Births
President’s Day is celebrated in the United States on the 3rd Monday in February. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, two men considered to be great presidents, was born in this month. Each at one time had the anniversary of their births celebrated as a national holiday before those two holidays were combined into [...]
Heavy Metal is Born
It was on Friday the 13th, February 1970 that the album that many consider the first Heavy Metal album was released. It was released in the United Kingdom. The debut album of a band from Birmingham England. The band and the album shared the name Black Sabbath.
The album had seven tracks. [...]
Peter Cooper
Many people may not know the name Peter Cooper, but nearly everyone knows of the things that he did during his life. Peter Cooper was active as a businessman and inventor during the first half of the 19th Century. He was born on February 12, 1791. And received patent, 4048, for a powered gelatin. [...]
Confederate States of America
Beginning on February 4, 1861 delegates from South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama to create a form of government based on the United States and many of the same beliefs.
By February 8, 1861 they had developed a Provisional Constitution forming the Confederate States of America. [...]
A Dutch City in America
During the early part of the 17th Century the English had a colonies in New England (the Plymouth Colony and ones along the Chesapeake Bay (Virginia and Maryland. Between these two areas the Dutch established the colony of New Amsterdam.
New Amsterdam was founded in 1625 outside of Fort Amsterdam located on an island on [...]
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