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It looks like it depends on what country's history you are talking about. The term I usually hear is "Victorian Era" (or "Victorian Age", or sometimes just "Victorian" as an adjective). Now techni …

I guess the Sousaphone just barely doesn't make it. It was first created in either 1893 or 1898, depending on who you believe. The Mellophone, a common marching band instrument, was first sold in 195 …

Before the first US Mint established the late 1790's, the matter of legal currency in the new nation was left entirely up to the states. As a result, many states had their own currency. Amongst the …

Initially travel would have been by boat up the Delaware river, later (also) via canal, by 1900 most likely via rail on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western line, and then finally by automobile. Travel …

I heard a few interviews with an author of a book that went into this subject on the NPR circuit a few years back. Sadly, I didn't pick it up, and don't remember the book's name now. I do vaguely rem …

As bizarre soul who actually blew some of his vacation in '88 on a Florida beach that summer watching the Rep convention coverage.. VP choices are generally all about compensating for the POTUS candi …

The kind of strike you are talking about is called work-to-rule, and is not limited to any single action in one country. Here's an article about a British teacher's union using the tactic in 2012. I …

Rosa Parks wasn't even the first woman (or second, or third, or fourth ...) to get arrested for being black and refusing to give up her seat on a bus. She wasn't even the first woman arrested in Alaba …

The best I could find with a fair bit of searching was your same Schmitt reference from 1988. It was introduced there as "was heard to exclaim". The implication there is that this wasn't a prepared re …

He's probably not the very first, but no one would have predated him by more than about 40 years, and I'd be very surprised if anyone else did it quite like he did. As background, Atenism was a relig …

The only contemporaneous statements I can find about Franco's deathbed statements are that he asked forgiveness from his enemies. Given that, I'm inclined to believe it is probably made up. I have he …

That's an interesting bit of ridicule, but I think the truth goes deeper than that. The fact is that for most North Koreans, if the women quit working on the black market (aka "free market"), they and …

It appears that was just the chapter name of the Bethel, Maine chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star (as pointed out by Steve Bird in the question comments). This appeared to have been originally i …

That's interesting. The argument I tend to hear these days is that the most liberal mainstream Democrat today is actually further to the right than Richard Nixon was. The argument there is that for th …

A co-worker of mine came in wearing a shirt with this image on it: This looks like a movie poster, but I'd never heard of that particular Bruce Lee movie, so I tried looking it up. As near as I can …