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The first picture of a cauliflower ear was on a gold coin minted in Taranto, Italy, over 2,400 years ago depicting Hercules as a pugilist with a cauliflower ear.
John Clerk (1728-1812) wrote the essay on naval tactics that revolutionized naval warfare and was credited with the strategy that enabled Admiral Nelson to win his many naval victories against the French, yet he had never been to sea.
The headquarters of the Knights of Rhodes in Rome, Italy, has been inhabited continuously for more than 1,900 years.
All of them seemed to have one.
Edgar Allan Poe's cat would sit on his shoulder and give him inspiration while he was writing. Charles Dickens' cat would snuff out the candle with its paw late at night to signal Dickens that it was time for bed. Everyone knows about Ernest Hemingway's cats:
The largest gold nugget in history is the Holtermann nugget, found in Australia on October 19, 1872. It is 4.9 feet high, 2.2 feet wide and weighs 630 pounds.
The first iron warship was the "Karteria" a Greek paddle steamer commanded by Captain Abney Hastings, an Englishman. It was the first iron ship to engage in naval warfare when it successfully led a Greek squadron against a superior Turkish fleet on September 23, 1826.
The Church of Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany, has been shared by Catholics and Protestants for over 500 years.
No U.S. President had a telephone in his office until 1929. From 1878-1929 the President had to go into a hallway and use a phone in a booth.
John Witherspoon (1723-1794) was the only signer of the Declaration of Independence who was a member of the clergy.
Abraham Lincoln had a grandfather whose name was also Abraham, and who also was killed by an assassin's bullet, and who also had a son named Thomas.
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