[avg_freeper]

I'm surprised the The Lost Colony of Roanoke and the mystery of "Croatan" wasn't on this list. Has there ever been a definitive explanation for what happened there?

[Mr. K]

I love this stuff~!

[stevio]

So where are all these big people bones?

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Hmmmm.....

28 events occurred between 1900 and 1946.

Yet there are zero events listed from 1946 through present!

I suppose people stopped looking for stories once TVs became available.

[Ignatz]

More! More! More!

I love this kind of stuff!

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[LTCJ]

AD 1900 (Easter) Off the island of Antikythera, Greece, a sponge diver brings up a misshapen bronze curiosity which will in 1958, be discovered to be a computer designed to plot the movements of the sun, moon Earth and planets. The find is described as amazing as "a jet plane in the tomb of King Tut".

But not nearly as strange as a description referencing a jet plane in AD 1900, eh what?

[Gordon Greene]

Ping for later.

[SkyPilot]

Very interesting bump.

[LucyT]

Strange stories, weird facts

. . . . Fun Stuff.

[Clinging Bitterly]

btrl

[bert]

......AD 1478 The Spanish conquer the Canary Islands. The native inhabitants, the Guanches committ suicide rather than submit to foreign domination......

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Canary Islanders first Sapnish settlers in Texas
CANARY ISLANDERS. On February 14, 1719, the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo made a report to the king of Spain proposing that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands, Galicia, or Havana to populate the province of Texas. His plan was approved, and notice was given the Canary Islanders to furnish 200 families; the Council of the Indies suggested that 400 families should be sent from the Canaries to Texas by way of Havana and Veracruz. By June 1730, twenty-five families had reached Cuba and ten families had been sent on to Veracruz before orders from Spain to stop the movement arrived. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goraz, the group marched overland to the presidio of San Antonio de Bexar, where they arrived on March 9, 1731. The party had increased by marriages on the way to fifteen families, a total of fifty-six persons. They joined a military community that had been in existence since 1718. The immigrants formed the nucleus of the villa of San Fernando de Béxar, the first regularly organized civil government in Texas. Several of the old families of San Antonio trace their descent from the Canary Island colonists. María Rosa Padrón was the first baby born of Canary Islander descent in San Antonio.

[Eaker]

AD 1856 The first remains of Neanderthal Man are found in a gravel pit in the Neander Valley of Germany. At first they are believed to be the remains of a congenital idiot, but after further remains are discovered, they are realized to be those of an extinct human species.

Yer ears burnin'?

[Right_Handed_Writer]

"AD 1829 (Nov) In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a block of marble is removed from a quarry, and is found to contain an indentation with raised letters "I" and "U". It is unknown who carved these letters."

The block originally had the letters I -- O -- and U. The O was missing until now. And now we and our kids (and their kids) are stuck with a historic I-O-U.

[Alas Babylon!]

AD 1816 (06 Jun) A frost lasting three days kills crops in northern North America, with snow falling to depths of eighteen to twenty inches in northern New England. (Jul) Another frost kills off replanted crops in New England. (20 Aug) Temperatures drop again in New England, with frost as far south as northern Connecticut. No explanation for this bizarre weather has ever been forthcoming.

Not true! This event is widely known as "The Year Without a Summer 1816", and is attributed to the explosion of Mount Tambora in the East Indies in 1815.