Krakatoa the volcano, located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, erupted on August 27, 1883.
Four hours later, the sound of the eruption could be heard nearly 3,000 miles away; 10 days later, volcanic dust fell at points more than 3,000 miles away.
On October 1, 1946, in Nuremberg, 12 of the original 24 defendants were condemned to death by hanging. They were: Hermann Goring, Joachim Ribbentrop, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, Ernest Kaltenbrunner, Dr. Albert Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Martin Bormann, who succeeded Rudolf Hess…
Oliver North served no prison time. The Marine colonel at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal was convicted in 1989 of falsifying and destroying records, accepting an illegal gratuity, and obstructing Congress, but was not given prison time. Instead, he was given a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform 1,200 hours of community service….
The official name of the Statue of Liberty is “Liberty Enlightening the World.” A gift from France, the statue was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated in New York harbor in 1886.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said the line, in the essay “Self-Reliance” (1841). The complete quote is, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
In 1992, the biggest corporation in America was General Motors, with sales of $133 billion and assets of $191 billion. In second place was Exxon, with sales of $104 billion and assets of $85 billion.
The Toll House behind the chocolate-chip cookies known as Toll House cookies was a Massachusetts eatery called the Toll House Restaurant, run by Ruth Wakefield, who popularized the cookies in the early 20th century. She later sold the rights to the name “Toll House Cookies” to the Nestle Company.