RE: Fact Of The DayMasquerade balls were forbidden in Boston. (1809) It was illegal to wear masks at a ball in Boston because the citizens felt it would be "detrimental to morals."
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RE: Fact Of The DayThe first color TV set was sold in the US. (1953) The Admiral Color television set had about a 15 inch (38 cm) screen, and cost about $1,000 US Dollars (USD) at the time.
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RE: Fact Of The DayThe first color TV set was sold in the US. (1953) The Admiral Color television set had about a 15 inch (38 cm) screen, and cost about $1,000 US Dollars (USD) at the time.
Omega 3 helps to boost memory and other brain functions
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RE: Fact Of The DayThe first music concert was held in the US. (1731) It was held in engraver Peter Pelham's great room, and was advertised as a "concert of sundry instruments." Admission was five shillings a ticket, and late arrivals were strictly forbidden from entering
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Post #166ManOfWicklowUltra NudistA lie has speed, but truth has endurance. RE: Fact Of The DayDaVinci sketched the design for the first parachute in 1485.
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RE: Fact Of The DayLeonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous and could write with one hand while drawing with the other.
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Post #168ManOfWicklowUltra NudistA lie has speed, but truth has endurance. RE: Fact Of The DayI can write with my right foot. Not a lot of people know that.
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RE: Fact Of The DayThe cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
At the time this was invented, cigarettes had not yet come into existence. Therefore it could not have been called a cigarette lighter.
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Post #170ManOfWicklowUltra NudistA lie has speed, but truth has endurance. RE: Fact Of The DayThe cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
At the time this was invented, cigarettes had not yet come into existence. Therefore it could not have been called a cigarette lighter.One of the first lighters was invented by the German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner in 1823.
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RE: Fact Of The DayThe cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
At the time this was invented, cigarettes had not yet come into existence. Therefore it could not have been called a cigarette lighter.One of the first lighters was invented by the German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner in 1823.The earliest forms of cigarettes were similar to their predecessor, the cigar.
Cigarettes appear to have had antecedents in Mexico and Central America
around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes.
The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco.
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