Knights Templar Fact Twelve

There were 23 total Grand Masters of the Knights Templar spanning from Hughes de Paynes who served 1118-1136 to Jacques de Molay who served 1292-1314.


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Viking Fact Twelve

The Vikings had a very balanced diet. Their meat came from their domesticated livestock such as cattle, pigs and sheep and from the animals they hunted like boar, deer and moose. Fish were plentiful as they had cod, haddock and herring. They grew their own vegetables including onions, peas and cabbage and foraged for hazelnuts, raspberries and strawberries. They ate mainly barley bread. When they weren't drinking wine and mead their drinking horns flowed with milk and buttermilk.


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American Civil War Fact Twelve

Three future U.S. presidents fought with the Union army in the Civil War: Ulysses S Grant, Rutherford B Hayes and William McKinley.


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Ancient Egypt Fact Twelve

The ancient Egyptian alphabet contained over 700 hieroglyphics. There were three types of hieroglyphs: one could be a picture representing a single word which would be an ideogram, another could represent a sound which would be a phonogram and the third were actual alphabet characters or logographs. They wrote both right to left and left to right and sometimes top to bottom.


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Pirate Fact Twelve

The sword of choice by pirates was the rapier from about 1550 to 1650. Yet having a length of 40 inches\101 cm or longer tended to be a hinderance in close quarters fighting. The transition to the cutlass or hanger started in the early 1600's as the swords were often around the 25 inches\64 cm in length.

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St Linus Second Pope

Saint Linus was the second Bishop of Rome and the Second Pope as he succeeded Saint Peter in 67. While his exact date of birth is unknown, Linus was a native of Tuscany. One decree attributed to him was that women should keep their heads covered in church. He died on September 23, 76 and was buried next to Saint Peter at the Vatican. September 23 is also the date his Feast day is celebrated.

Ancient Seven Wonders of the World Fact Eleven

It is estimated that the greenery at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon required about 300 tonnes or 92,350 gallons of water per day.


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Knights Templar Fact Eleven

The Battle of Montgisard in 1177 was one of their greatest victories of the Crusades as the Eighth Grand Master Odo de St Amand led 80 Templar Knights along with 375 other knights led by Raynald of Chatillion and a few thousand infantry against the forces of Saladin and his 27,000 men. Saladin was the Sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. His forces were spread thin raiding villages and was surprised at Montgisard by 16 year old King Baldwin IV and his army. Baldwin wanted to make a stand there before the Muslims reached Jerusalem. The much smaller army routed the Ayyubids and Saladin returned to Egypt to regroup with only ten percent of his army.


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Viking Fact Eleven

Once the Vikings raided a country they imposed a tax called Danegeld. If the tax was paid then the territories would not be subject to future attacks by the Vikings. It was primarily collected in England and France from the ninth through 11th centuries.


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American Civil War Fact Eleven

President Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address himself. It was only ten sentences and 269 words in total. Being so short President Lincoln completed the speech before all the official photographers could get their cameras ready and no pictures captured the event.


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Ancient Egypt Fact Eleven

Many nobles who lived along the Nile River had huge villas of 25 to 30 rooms. Most were made with sun dried brick while some were made from cut stones and others with white limestone. 


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Pirate Fact Eleven

Pirates were often compensated for loss of a limb or eye. It was written into the ship's constitution the value of each loss. Since most people are right handed a limb on the right side was valued more. For example the loss of a right arm would go for 600 pieces of silver while losing the left arm would get 500. The right leg might get 500 and the left one would be compensated for 400. Loss of either eye would get 100. 


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St Peter First Pope

Saint Peter was the first Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born as Simon Peter in Bethsaida, Syria although the exact date is unknown. While working as a fisherman on Lake Genesareth with his brother Saint Andrew, Andrew introduced him to Jesus. Both were among the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus. Jesus gave him the new name Cephas which meant rock because he was the rock on which the Christian church would be built.

After the death of Jesus, Saint Peter continued his ministry as the head of the Christian church and was Pope from 32 to 67. The church went universal after he met with other church leaders at the Council of Jerusalem in 50 and they set the rules for Gentile converts to Christianity. Saint Peter took missionary trips to cities including Antioch, Corinth and Rome. He was executed in 67 when Emperor Nero Augustus Caesar had him crucified upside down. An inverted cross became one of his symbols. The church recognizes him with a feast day on June 29. 

Ancient Seven Wonders Random Facts and Topics

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Temple of Artemis

Colossus of Rhodes

Knights Templar Random Facts and Topics

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Knights Templar Founded

Templar Knights Early Fund Raising

Bornholm and the Knights Templar

Templar Cross

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Viking Beginning

                                                                                                                      

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TOPICS  Battle of Westport Bloodless 34 Hour Battle at Fort Sumter  Civil War Battles by State

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Merneith Queen of Egypt

Queen Nitocris of Egypt

Queen Sobekneferu of Egypt

Pirate Random Facts and Topics

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FACT SEVEN			FACT EIGHT			FACT NINE
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FACT THIRTEEN			FACT FOURTEEN			FACT FIFTEEN
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Adam Baldridge Pirate Entrepreneur

Anicetus Ancient Pirate

Jolly Roger

Natural Disaster Facts Ten

The deadliest wildfire occurred on October 8, 1871 in the territory around Peshtigo, Wisconsin which became known as the Peshtigo Fire. It was also the same day as the Great Chicago Fire. Small fires had been set to clear forest land but a cold front with strong winds fanned the flames out of control as it raced through twelve communities. The official death estimates ranged between 1200 to 2500 and the fire burned between 1.2 million and 1.5 million acres of forest which covered between 1875 and 2400 square miles. 

Ancient Seven Wonders of the World Fact Ten

The distance between the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Pyramids of Giza was 132 miles or 212 km.


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Knights Templar Fact Ten

The Knights Templar had their base of operations in Acre from 1187 to 1291. Acre is 106 miles or 173 km north of Jerusalem.


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Viking Fact Ten

There were three social classes in Viking society: Jarls who were the wealthy noblemen, Karls who were the freemen and land owners and Thralls who were the slaves and bondsmen. 

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American Civil War Fact Ten

When the war started the Union army only had 98 doctors while the Confederate army only had 24. That was a contributing factor to the high mortality numbers.


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Ancient Egypt Fact Ten

The Egyptians invented the calendar containing 365 days in 4241 BC.


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Pirate Fact Ten

Twenty percent of the United States budget in 1800 was devoted to paying ransom and tribute to pirates. Prior to declaring independence ships from the America's were protected under British treaties. That protection ended when the United States declared independence and in 1777 Morocco recognized the United States as an independent nation making it fair game to start seizing its ships. One result was the creation of the United States Navy. Yet as more ships were seized by various Barbary Coast nations the United States scrambled to sign treaties of their own with these nations and paid them protection fees.

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Natural Disaster Facts Nine

The largest death toll due to a lightning strike happened on April 3, 1856 when a bolt hit the Palace of the Grand Masters on the Greek Island of Rhodes. The building was being used to supply ammunition for the Ottoman Empire and several people sought shelter there during a massive storm. About 4000 people in or around the structure were killed when the lightning set off the ammunition in a devastating explosion.

The second deadliest lightning strike happened years earlier under similar circumstances. The Church of San Nazaro in Brecia, Italy was being used to store over 200,000 pounds of gun powder for the army of Emperor Napoleon. A lightning strike in August 1769 ignited the gunpowder and the resulting blast and fire destroyed the town and killed about 3000.

Ancient Seven Wonders of the World Fact Nine

The 56 years that the Colossus of Rhodes was in existence was the only span that all seven wonders existed at the same time: 282 BC to 226 BC.


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