Tuesday, 16 August 2011

50 days of summer: #29

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• jellyslug (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 15:39

  Henry 8th was too busy playing a version of tennis that he didn't bother to witness the beheading of Anne Bolyn, his second wife.

  

• Ejc (Age 10) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 15:51

  Frederick I Barbarossa rode into rome backwards on a donkey

  

• rockgirl (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 16:25

  When Ejyptions mummified bodies, they stuck a stick up their noses, and pulled out their brains out of their noses!!! I might try that myself actually ;)

  

• sambarose (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 16:50

  My horrible fact is: in a nail makers factory if they didn't work hard enough boys ears would be nailed to their work benches! (still attatched to the boys.) But they didn't complain otherwise they would lose their job and so they would starve!

  

• Cescychops (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 16:55

  There is a plant caled lavataria and its caled that cos romans used it in lavortries 2 wipe their bums because it was soft!

  

• kizzie (Age 14) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 17:11

  my mums great great auntie(my g,g,g auntie) was called lettuce! :) errm a very un popular job in tudor times was a gong scouer. which was given to boys small enough to crawl along the drains and clean the royal loos! STINKY!

  

• minxymoo (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 17:31

  I am busy for this prize :( Very sad as I would love to win

  

• frules (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 17:33

  Tudor scientist Francis Bacon died by... stuffing a chicken with snow - he caught a cold and died !

  

• frules (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 17:36

  before aristotle came along the greeks thought that elephants had no knee joints so had to sleep leaning on trees!!

  

• millieboo (Age 10) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 17:57

  To Nic,

  

• CandyEllz (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:07

  In tudor times your barber was also your doctor!! :P

  

• ojn9 (Age 10) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:12

  the romans use a sponge on a stick to wipe there bums

  

• gummybear (Age 10) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:23

  blackbeard had 16 wives now thats amazing

  

• sharkster (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:32

  my history teacher said that normans when they were invading england took a few young girls from the saxon village and tied ropes to their heads so when they pulled the ropes tight the girls eyes would slowly be pulled outside of their gungey eyelids and eyeholes. their screams were heard throughout the whole village so eventually the saxons would give in and open the village gates to let the normans in. how horrid!

  

• sharkster (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:34

  another one is vikings used to put tie people from the ceiling upside down, take their toe and fingernails off and skin their top of their bodies alive so because they were upside down, the rest of their skin would slowly peel off. OUCH!

  

• sharkster (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:34

  another one is vikings used to put tie people from the ceiling upside down, take their toe and fingernails off and skin their top of their bodies alive so because they were upside down, the rest of their skin would slowly peel off. OUCH!

  

• sharkster (Age 13) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 18:36

  if i have to choose I would like my first one to count

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 19:07

  I love Charlie and Lola! And my mum too... I will have a think .:)

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 19:09

  This is not that scary but it is to my mum. She found out yesterday that Hitler had a sister which had the same name as my mum!

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 19:11

  I think that is was the romans that had public bath rooms and they wiped their bottoms with a sponge on a stick...

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 19:17

  Tutankhamen was a hermaphrodite (half man half woman.)

  

• sambarose (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 @ 19:50

  I just rembered one! In the second world war there were bins on the corner of the street which people would put their scraps in for the pigs so they were called pig bins, one night a teenage girl was going to go to a ball but had to walk to it in the black out. Her mother said "If any strange men come up to you kick him on the shins and push him in the pig bins." As the girl was walking to the ball a man was walking towards her. She moved to one side of the pavement to let him past, he moved the same way. So she kicked him on the shins and pushed him into the nearest pig bin. She had so much fun at the ball that she completley forgot about the insidence untill she got home. When she came in her mother said " stay away from your father dear he's in a bad mood. Someone kicked him on the shins and pushed him in the pig bin! Whoever would do such a mean thing!" And she replied, "I really don't know mother... I really don't know." I found this really funny and I can't believe it actually happened! Ps. Nic if you can only have one entry please may this be it, Thankyou!

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 09:01

  Dick Turpin's horse wasn't called Black Bess, it wasn't called anything cause he stole horses and the days of the week are named after anglo-saxon and roman gods: Monday: Moon's day Tuesday: Tiw's day Wednesday: Woden's day Thursday: Thor's day Friday: Freya's day Saturday: Saturn's day Sunday: Sun's day

  

• Mirri04 (Age 13) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 11:01

  In Stuart times,wives who were accused of nagging too much had to wear an iron mask with a spike in the mouth!:)

  

• smokeyice (Age 12) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 12:18

  nic i can't win as i will be on holiday but i am entering for fun Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

  

• smokeyice (Age 12) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 12:19

  Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.

  

• smokeyice (Age 12) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 12:20

  Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors. In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.

  

• nwilliams wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 12:57

  Thanks for letting me know Smokeyice - great facts :)

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 16:29

  In WW2, pigeons and animals who have served or helped the army in some way got a medal for their bravery and courage at the end of the war. So basically it is the Victoria Cross of the animal world. :)

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 16:53

  Vikings invented words like kill, sharp, angry and a random one: shy!? :)

  

• frules (Age 13) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:18

  the days of the week are named like this : monday = moon-day(atrology), tuesday = Tiw's day (norse mythology), Wednesday = Wodan's day (norse mythology), Thursday = Thor's day (norse mythology), Friday = Freyja's day (my name! + norse mythology)!, Saturday = saturn's day(astrology), Sunday = sun's day (astrology) phew thats long :)

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:30

  Victorian eccentric, Dr William Buckland was known for his love of eating strange things like : elephants' trunks, bat's urine and the mummified heart of King Louis XIV!

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:31

  The second Baron Rothschild had a carriage drawn by four zebras, snakes twined round the banisters and had a dinner party with 12 dressed monkeys.

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:32

  The Roman Emperor Caligula dug up Alexander the Great's grave so he could wear his armour. He also made his horse Incitatus a consul.

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:32

  Egyptian dentists used to suggest putting half a freshly-killed hot mouse in your mouth to cure bad breath.

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:33

  William the Conqueror's stomach exploded at his funeral.

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:34

  shakespeare is said to have created the following phrases: "to be or not to be", "good riddance", "heart of gold", "dead as a door nail", "wild goose chase", "knock, knock... who's there" and "for goodness sake".

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:34

  Charles I of England sent someone else to marry his wife for him

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:35

  the Incans used to wash their hair and shave their legs using human urine.

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:36

  When the Black Death hit England in 1347, the Scots decided to invade while the English defenses were down. The Scots marched south, caught the Black Death themselves, then marched back to their homes and spread it throughout Scotland.

  

• millie259 (Age 10) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:37

  Teenage Roman Emperor Elagabalus threw prank dinner parties where his guests had to eat fake food, or had dangerous animals hidden in their bedrooms. He also ran a lottery at the amphitheatre where the prizes could be amazing, or they could be a dead dog or a box of angry bees!

  

• Harryyo (Age 11) wrote on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 @ 17:45

  In the olden days when no one had tolets you would poo out the window

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:04

  Saint Simeon Stylites was a monk who gained fame in the 5th century for spending 37 years standing on a small platform on top of a tall pillar in Syria.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:05

  In 1927 Otto Rohwedder invented sliced bread. He made the first machine to slice and wrap bread and won a patent for the process. After only six years from invention, more sliced bread was sold than unsliced.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:07

  In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:08

  To save the effort of sailing boats upstream, Mesopotamian traders built collapsable boats which they would sail downstream with a donkey on board. At the other end of their journey they would sell the frame and when they finished trading, they would use the donkey to return home

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:09

  In ancient Rome the punishment for killing one’s father was to be drowned in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a rooster. The reason behind this? I have no idea. lol! :)

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:10

  . In Gubbio, Northern Italy, a race has been run every year since the 12th century – and the outcome is rigged. Villagers carry three statues in the race, Saints Ubaldo (for whom the race was started), Anthony and George. Every year Saint Ubaldo comes first, Saint George second, and Saint Anthony last

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:11

  When anaesthetic was used for the first time in childbirth in 1847, the mother was so amazed and relieved at how painless the birth was that she named her child Anaesthesia.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:12

  The grid layout used in many cities around the world is not a new invention – it first appeared in the city of Mohenjo Daro, in India, 4,500 years ago. The houses to the side of the streets had bare walls facing the street to keep out the sun and dust from carts.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:12

  . The first policewoman was Alice Stebbins Wells (pictured) who joined the LAPD in 1910. Because she was the first (and only) policewoman, she designed her own police uniform. Four years later, Britain had their first woman policeman.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:13

  In the 1700s in Paris, women wore hats with lightning rods attached when venturing outdoors during bad weather. Bad idea.

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:15

  In circa 3100–3050 BC Egypt was ruled by its very first Pharaoh – King Menes. It was said that he was the first human ruler – inheriting the throne from the god Horus Also, frules, my sister is named Freya!

  

• roxiechic (Age 10) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 08:15

  Gorgias of Epirus (3rd century BC), a Greek sophist, was born in his dead mother’s coffin! Pallbearers heard him crying out as they carried his mother’s coffin to the grave.

  

• Elise2000 (Age 11) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 10:56

  Henry The 8th had 2 wifes

  

• frules (Age 13) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 11:29

  cool roxiechic :) Elise2000 - Henry the 8th had 6 wives not 2 !

  

• Born2shop (Age 12) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 13:31

  My fact is.. The Roman Emperor Caligula dug up Alexander the Great's grave JUST so he could wear his armour. How silly!

  

• Holz8 (Age 13) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 13:53

  In 1911, pigtails/ponytails (-whatever you want to call them) were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past!

  

• jameswest (Age 11) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 15:07

  Charles II gave the man who was trying to steal his crown jewels a big country manor in Ireland, set him free, and invited him round to the palace for tea.

  

• gibson1066 (Age 13) wrote on Thursday, 18 August 2011 @ 17:57

  in roman times after they went to the toilet they used to wipe their bums uith a sponge on a stick. sometimes the sponge fell into the toilet!!

  

• lozzy2051 (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 11:55

  Vikings believed that if they gave their children odd names, the gods would protect them from harm when they were out, killing and fighting.

  

• rebecca11 (Age 13) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 17:14

  For centuries, animals have been used to help fight wars. Before there were tanks, soldiers rode their horses into battle. Pack animals such as camels, mules, and horses carried ammunition and supplies. My favorite animal is an elephant and they have helped out in wars!! •Battle elephants were used by Hannibal of Carthage when he crossed the Alps to fight the Romans. •Alexander the Great conquered India with the help of elephants. •The Greek king Pyrrhus and his men rode elephants into battle against the Romans. Although the Greeks won, many men and elephants died. Today “Pyrrhic victory” means a victory won at great cost. •In the sixteenth century, Emperor Akbar of India used elephants in battle. The elephants were hung with bells in order to sound frightening, and their trunks were bound to straighten them so that poisoned daggers could be attached to their ends. Sounds grusome but is true - I never knew that my favorite animal helped to shape history.

  

• 123LEGO (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 19:46

  King Harold didn't have an arrow shot in his eye at the battle of Hastings in 1066! Oddly enough in sign language the sign for Hastings is put your finger in your eye!

  

• 123LEGO (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 19:51

  The First world war started with a gunshot!

  

• 123LEGO (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 19:53

  When the Ancient Greeks had wars, if the wars carried on until it was time for the next Olympics, they would just stop all the wars, do the Olympics ,then start warring again.

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 20:15

  Toilet paper was invented only 150 years ago so before then people substituted it. The French used lace, the Vikings used wool and Germans I think was newspaper!!!

  

• 1stnews_99 (Age 13) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 21:11

  In roman times men used to use the toilet publicly in a large room and they used to talk to each other

  

• pussycat (Age 15) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 21:59

  According to legend the city-state of Rome was founded by a young man named Romulus. It says that Romulus built a wall around his village. When his brother jumped over the wall, Romulus was mad, and killed him. This legend further says that Romulus then said that a similar fate would befall anyone who ever tried to break through the walls of Rome!

  

• STAGS2011 (Age 12) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 22:20

  the shortest war on record was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

  

• STAGS2011 (Age 12) wrote on Friday, 19 August 2011 @ 22:21

  Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

  

• Japhho (Age 13) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 10:42

  In the 19th century, in an attempt to get rid of the myth that Friday was an unlucky day for mariners,the British navy named a new ship HMS Friday, found a Captain Friday to command it and sent it to sea on a Friday. Neither ship nor crew were heard of again.

  

• Monkey27 (Age 14) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 12:20

  Emperor Caligula once went to war with sea (Poseidon) and had all of the roman army ships lined up as far as they would go. The army then threw their spears into the sea to 'kill Poseidon'. Emperor Elagabalus once launched a pranking lottery where you could win a box that might have a dead dog in!

  

• honeybun00 (Age 11) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 12:31

  Football were made out of pigs bums!

  

• luckylion5 (Age 12) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 14:02

  Egyptian pharoahs sometimes married thier brothers, sisters and occasionally their own mother or child!

  

• Author2be (Age 13) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 16:27

  In World War 2, women would paint their legs brown with gravy and drew a line up their leg so it looked like they had tights on, as tights became unavaliable!

  

• cinderella (Age 12) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 17:03

  In Victorian times, when a woman entered a room, it was considered rude for a man to offer his seat to her because the cushion might still be warm. Victorian children rarely saw their parents. A special trip was made to the nursery each evening, and the visit lasted about an hour. Victorian women made pictures, wreaths, and bouquets from their own hair or the hair of a family member to be framed and displayed in the parlor. To control insects in Victorian times, many people kept a HEDGEHOG in the basement. It curled up and slept in the day, but roamed around the dark kitchen at night eating cockroaches and other insects. Henry VIII had six wives. Henry VIII had three children but only 1 was a boy. King Henry VIII was raised by his uncle Jasper Tudor. Jane Seymour died after giving birth to King Edward and she was Henry's favorite wife and he demanded to be buried next to her when he died. King Henry VIII started up the English church for Christians. Queen Mary is also known as Bloody Mary. King Henry VII was very fat. A lot of Victorians were very poor.

  

• fizzy21 (Age 11) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 18:13

  i'm on holiday next week so i'm entering for fun! Albert Nobel invented the noble pice prize and Dynamite. Also Albert's death was wrongly reported! And William the first wasn't actually the first king!

  

• Mistergree (Age 10) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 18:52

  Mine is : Flaying is where the skin of a person is shaved off by a very sharp knife and the person who caught the victim (which would be a king/queen) would get to put the skin up on a wall of a city building! Isn't that digusting!

  

• kirandeol (Age 12) wrote on Saturday, 20 August 2011 @ 23:08

  In the greece history times the brides chariot was broken after the wedding as a sighn that she could never go back to her old house.

  

• Historian8 (Age 11) wrote on Sunday, 21 August 2011 @ 08:20

  IN the Middle Ages people believed that if a baby was born on a Friday, then it would have a miserable life. So they killed it instead. Others 'tested' their babies by putting them in a dangerous place, like a high tree branch. If it cried, it was a wimp and was killed, and if it laughed, it was brave, and was allowed to live. If it fell off, it died anyway!!!

  

• juventus10 (Age 11) wrote on Sunday, 21 August 2011 @ 09:28

  did you know that the guilotine was not french?! it was invented in yorkshire!

  

• MyahB (Age 7) wrote on Sunday, 21 August 2011 @ 10:36

  Wee was very useful in the past. People used to wash their hair in it, brush their teeth with it and doctors even drank it to help find out what was wrong with someone. It was like gold dust!

  

• rosy4454 (Age 11) wrote on Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 15:49

  Adolph Hitler played chess daily. He always played the white pieces, and insisted on being allowed to replace one of his bishops with a second queen. If someone said he was cheating he would lock them in the dungeon!!!

  

• meerkat101 (Age 12) wrote on Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 15:56

  a chief named shaka zulu had 1200 wives but any children they gave birth to were murdered straight away and he would kill soldiers if they didn't bring their spears! how mean!

  

• chaleyfu10 (Age 12) wrote on Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 18:52

  If you were caught being a tramp in Tudor times you would be whipped and have a hole burned through your right ear. Bad enough, but if you were caught a second time you would have a hole burned through your left ear. A third time and you would be executed! Very harsh!

  

• gibson1066 (Age 13) wrote on Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 19:36

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• kelandab (Age 10) wrote on Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 21:04

  The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes!!!!

  

• beclee (Age 7) wrote on Monday, 22 August 2011 @ 23:25

  The Bishop of Rochesters Cook tried to give him diarroea by poisening his dinner but two people died so Henry the VIII ordered that the cook be bolied to death, anyone else caught poisening people were also boiled to death

  

• leebec (Age 12) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 08:25

  In Victorian Times DredgerMen were used to collect the bodies that were thrown into the water instead of being buried, they had to get them out of the water and they got paid per body - yuck!!

  

• kantara22 (Age 11) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 10:08

  in the roman times insted of tissue they used a sponge on a stick

  

• purplepig5 (Age 14) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 10:45

  In the first world war the english soldiers ran out of gas masks so they had to wee on there hankerchieves and tie them over there noses and mouths to stop them from breathing in the gas.

  

• pat0373 (Age 12) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 12:45

  In victorian times, the rich people would put a coin underneath the carpet for the maid. If the maid found it and kept it for herself, she would be sacked for dishonesty. If she didn't find it, she would be sacked for being a rubbish cleaner.

  

• pat0373 (Age 12) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 12:48

  A greek playwright who wrote the very first plays died when a eagle carrying a tortoise was looking for a rock to smash the tortoises shell so the eagle could eat it. The eagle thought the playwrights bald head was a rock and dropped it on the poor mans head.

  

• pat0373 (Age 12) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 12:51

  The noturious murderer, William Burke, had a pocket book made of his skin. His partner, William Hare, was blinded by his friends in a lime factory when they discovered who he really was.

  

• emma88762 (Age 10) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 18:21

  some common victorian names were toilet and baboon - not joking!I'm telling the truth,it says so in horible histories!

  

• marrowhead (Age 14) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 19:09

  when people had an infection in a part of there body e.g. there leg they would have to have it cut off with a saw while they were still awake to stop the infection spreading otherwise they would die. sometimes they would give them wine to make them a bit drowzy so they wouldnt feel the pain as much as there limb got cut off.

  

• shunty (Age 14) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 22:16

  During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.

  

• kicky105 (Age 12) wrote on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 @ 23:26

  Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Wednesday, 24 August 2011 @ 16:52

  Queen Victoria had her 60th or something jubilee in St Pauls Cathedral, she was too fat to get up the stairs to the ceremony so they had to do it outside!!!

  

• sweetpea (Age 11) wrote on Friday, 26 August 2011 @ 12:36

  Queens, if they die on the streets they cannot be pronounced dead until brought back to Buckingham Palace.

  

• samz (Age 13) wrote on Friday, 26 August 2011 @ 14:28

  the tictanic only used 3 of the 4 fumes because they represented fastness

  

• Ionee (Age 16) wrote on Saturday, 27 August 2011 @ 11:02

  Al Capone went to Alcatraz for a while but the press ridiculed him and the officers because they thought that the officers gave more luxuries to him because they were scared of him. :P

  

• alicesam (Age 6) wrote on Saturday, 27 August 2011 @ 11:28

  ancient gladiators were mostly vegetarians

  

• alicesam (Age 6) wrote on Saturday, 27 August 2011 @ 11:30

  to take an oath ancient romans put a hand over their private parts

  

• alicesam (Age 6) wrote on Saturday, 27 August 2011 @ 11:31

  life expectancy in 1900 was only 47 years of age

  

• awsomeness (Age 12) wrote on Saturday, 27 August 2011 @ 19:28

  king goerge the first ate to much fruit and then died of diariaha!!!! lol!!! what a way to go!!!!

  

• doodey34 (Age 8) wrote on Saturday, 27 August 2011 @ 19:29

  celts didnt wear clothes in battle they painted themselves blue instead.

  

• OliverSher (Age 8) wrote on Sunday, 28 August 2011 @ 08:05

  Egyptian dentists used to suggest putting half a freshly-killed hot mouse in your mouth to cure bad breath.

  

• feast (Age 12) wrote on Sunday, 28 August 2011 @ 14:12

  If the titanic's captain had decided to slow down and keep to the speed he should have been going but because they wernt on time he sped up and if he hadn't it's a known act that the ship would have been able to miss the iceburg so sad :(

  

• Phee8 (Age 13) wrote on Sunday, 28 August 2011 @ 14:23

  HELP MEE! im really confused :S how do you know whether you have won a competition and how do you find out about other people winning them ??