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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Strange Facts

What's the weirdest fact you've discovered while doing your research so far? This has to pertain to your research.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

no body knows the exact birthdate of Boticelli. that mean he never celebrated his birthday with others since his birthday was never written down. this does not just apply to boticelli, alot of famous people born before the 1500''s and some after, people do not have a exact birthdate for them. that is just weird to me.

manlove7 said...

Yeah G. I agree. But you know what's wierd to me? Your spelling and grammer is horrific. Anyway. Alot of people in history are gay also that i didnt even know about. Especially during the Renaissance.

brian said...

Muhammed is the most common name in the entire world.

tilly billman said...

though dante was italian, his nationality was english

Jessica Deckard said...

Hey Billy, What do you mean his nationality was English? I thought he spent his whole life in Italy? Can you explain what you said?

Ben Schwertz said...

I found it interestnig that some cathedrals took over 400 years to build

Jessika Whitbeck said...

the medici's owned the most influencial bank in Italy but they took 10% of everyone's money and gave it to the catholic church

bossier330 said...

in the 15th century, traitors in england were impaled on a long stake that entered the wrong way through a certain hole and exited through the mouth. oddly, there was not much torture occuring in italy.

Taylor Harkness said...

At one time the vatican was looked upon as a dirthole and was once said, "Drink the Vatican, and you drink venom" of course it is looked upon much different today.

Macie said...

i thought it was interesting that botticelli started off painting pictures of like venus and other gods but then he became really religious and destroyed some of them and started painting more religious images like of the madonnas

Kevin Quizzle said...

the commercial for the new treehouse of horror shows a dante-like inferno with bart in his devil costume..you can see it when the world series is on
strange facts..enlighten me

Kevin Quizzle said...

um dumbledore is gay and lets see the medici family is vast and v ery large and expansive..they have artists and powerful people. nothing strange yet

Trevinator said...

The war between the Whites and the Blacks started because a kid threw a snowball at his uncle. Crazy huh?

seelige said...

brunetto latini (he was in circle 7) was a father figure to dante when his dad died, but when dante wrote the divine comedy he actually put latini in the 7th level of hell

bweaver said...

the number 23 is actually thought to coincide to bad events in history, its not just made up by that movie

Laurie said...

I think it's interesting that Michelangelo thought painting was stupid, especially because he painted the Sistine Chapel. It's also interesting that one of his sculptures was sent to France and disappeared there.

Kmorel said...

they would eat beaver tails because when they were fasting they couldnt eat fish but the tails tasted like fish...eww

Anonymous said...

I think it is interesting that people during the middle ages though Garlic was so powerful that it could cure anything from a toothache to the plague. It could also buy you three prostitutes or one male slave, depending on what you were looking for that day.

Kmorel said...

another werid one was that they thought eating breakfast meant you were some how being a glutton

alex hump said...

left handed people were really rare back then bc they were superstitous and when they saw a kid favoring their left hand they'd force them to use their right.

seelige said...

dante's father made his living by money lending which is also a major sin (usury)

ethan mcraney said...
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ethan mcraney said...

even though i already knew this before, in the middle ages some musical scales were not used because when the notes were played together they sounded eire and were considered the devils music and forbidden

Sara W said...

The birth date of Titian is so unclear, and I think it's interesting that religion was such a major part of their lives that people can only guess how old you are because the day you were baptized was recorded.