Comments on: 20 More Interesting Historical Oddities http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:04:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BreK http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-388143 Sun, 29 May 2011 12:23:43 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-388143 Name

]]> By: Americanized Ninja http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-310869 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:50:57 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-310869 At the beginning of WWI the airplane was not thought of as a practical instrument of war. It was only used to take photos of trench layout and troop movement. The pilots soon began to take hand held guns along in case they came across an enemy aircraft, but they were pretty ineffectual. The guys in charge thought the cavalry would be an important factor until they realized what horrible things can be done with technology.

]]> By: Ackmed teh idiot http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-308902 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:46:46 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-308902 Wow, strange, yet good.

]]> By: MiracleMan http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-292622 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:13:00 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-292622 Daniel Boone is not famous for wearing a coonskin hat, Davey Crocket is, and apparently, someone conflated the two here in #19. By all acounts, Mr. Crocket, the "King of the wild frontier," wore a coonskin cap later made popular by television and marketing in the 1950's.

]]> By: Whaha http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-264210 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:45:43 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-264210 Santa Anna buried his leg, yes, and the people would dig it out and play with it, as he was not at all popular at the time (selling half of the country for a ridiculous sum and wasting the government’s money in superfluous luxuries before a starving mass might have something to do with it) so he had more than one burial for his leg, actually. He was quite a character.

]]> By: tree http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-208824 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:57:19 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-208824 only oddities ?

]]> By: Izzy http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-197388 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:56:10 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-197388 Fact #10: Zanzibar actually surrendered after 30 miniutes.

]]> By: Michael http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-168090 Sun, 03 May 2009 03:56:11 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-168090 11. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Aw, poor elephant. What did it do?

]]> By: ahmet http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-125950 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:56:29 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-125950 #4
it’s neither arabs nor indians that came up with numerical system.it was the phoenecians who found it.

]]> By: fydpbivsoqmsp http://listverse.com/2008/11/24/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/comment-page-3/#comment-125395 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:38:06 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/20-more-interesting-historical-oddities/#comment-125395 nice

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