Comments on: 20 Historical Oddities You Probably Don’t Know

By: sad

sad — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:32:59 +0000

It was 12th point, sorry.

By: sad

sad — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:32:15 +0000

15th is wrong. In 1550, the Finnish capital was the city of Turku. Later, when Russia took over Finland, they made Helsinki as the capital of Finland, since it was closer to Russia and there was easy connection to Russian coastal cities from Helsinki.

The Swedish king maybe founded Helsinki, but he didn’t make it as Capital.

By: Lerker

Lerker — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:51:35 +0000

Tsar Nicholas II was not Queen Victoria’s grandchild. His wife, Alix of Hesse, was. But not him.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:36:55 +0000

The D in D-Day doesn’t stand for anything. It simply is a term used to call the start of a military operation. Examples, M-minute or H-Hour. D-Day just means the say the operation started. There has been many D-Days in history, The Normandy operation is just the most well known.

By: coffeebean

coffeebean — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:22:13 +0000

Tsar Nikolay was not Queen Victoria`s grandson,his wife was!

By: JustGotRobbed

JustGotRobbed — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:16:52 +0000

So what is their excuse now?

By: Easy

Easy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:09:12 +0000

taxes on English tea were lowered, taxes on the dutch tea that the americans found preferable were increased

By: George

George — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:17:15 +0000

Gandhiji is the one who deserve the nobel prize than any other,i think he get the first for that

By: Chloe

Chloe — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:52:45 +0000

The Tsar Nicholas 2′s wife was actually the grandchild of Queen Victoria. She was British while the Tsar was pure russian.

By: whywhywhy

whywhywhy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:31:11 +0000

Why do you point out Kissenger and Arafat, and not Obama. Obama won the epeace price in 2009, after being president for a few weeks (if even?). Subsequently, he increase troops on the Afgan front, maintained Guantanamo and now he is sending the U.S. army to Libya (without ever obtaining congressional approval). After all that, why is he not the example?