The first major land victory of the Allies against the Axis was when the Greek army held off the Italian army in 1940.

The archaic use of the word ‘apple’ as a generic term for fruit included nuts, but not berries.

Modern Aramaic has at least 400,000 speakers. It is fracturing, however, due to the instability in the Middle East.

Kaiser Wilhelm II was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911, by the president of UC Berkeley.

In the hundred years following the French Revolution, France was ruled as a republic, a constitutional monarchy, and two separate empires.

The oldest surviving British Army reigiment is the Honourable Artillery Company. They were chartered by Henry VIII in 1537.

Hong Kong was originally ceded to the British during the Opium Wars – two wars that erupted when China tried to prevent Britain from smuggling opium out of India into China.

There is one daily newspaper published in Sanskrit – Sudharma, published in Karnataka, India, with a circulation of about 2000.

About 50% of the supply of the world’s gold supply has come from South Africa.

During much of the 18th century, Bethlem Royal Hospital (also known as Bedlam, the only hositpal for the insane in England at that time) charged a penny to let people come in and see the patients.