Quiz: Weird Pets in History

5 March 2021 / 0 Comments

Many people own pets, from dogs and cats to the more exotic, but how much do you know about pets in history? Take our quiz to find out!

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Toby Kilroy

Toby's experience comes from website design as well as experience running large forums and communities. After he married Debbie he developed a keen interest in history and found himself discussing history quite a lot!

Fact of the Day

Novelist Agatha Christie was a keen surfer.

Quote of the Day

"We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "

~ Hegel (German philosopher, 1770-1831)

On This Day

1830 The Manchester to Liverpool train line opened, and caused the first train death (of MP William Huskisson).

1859 The great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel died.

1916 Tanks were first used on the Somme. They weren't ready for use in combat and many broke down.

1935 The Nuremberg race laws were introduced, stripping German Jews of their citizenship and forbidding them to marry Aryans.

1940 Hitler indefinitely postponed his invasion of Britain following a massive defeat of the Luftwaffe.

2008 The financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the biggest such filing in US history, causing the Dow Jones to drop more than 500 points in a day.