Thousands of years.
Millennia
Fact of the Day
American president Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed to be descended from William the Conqueror.
Quote of the Day
"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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~ Thomas Edison
On This Day
69 Otho, the second Roman emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors, stabbed himself in the heart after losing to Vitellian troops. He had been emperor for just three months.
1705 Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton.
1746 The Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart were decisively crushed at Battle of Culloden, ending the Jacobite Rising with disastrous consequences for the Scottish clans.