JBF_Legal Interesting Flashcards
What is the memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments?
Written by James Madison in opposition to a bill proposed in 1784 to the Virginia General Assembly that would direct tax money to the support of Christian ministers in the state. It led to the assembly enacting the Virginia bill for religious liberty.
pluperfect tense
The pluperfect tense (or past perfect in English) is used to describe finished actions that have been completed at a definite point in time in the past. It is easiest to understand it as a past ‘past’ action. For example: ‘I had given the messuage to Lucy, when I realised my mistake.
monophthongs.
Simple vowels are called monophthongs. The letters, like /ɪ/, are the IPA letters for each vowel sound in English. (The IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet). In the IPA, each symbol represents a different sound, so using the IPA is helpful in pronouncing words.
diphthong
Diphthongs are a combination of two different vowel sounds, one vowel sounds turns into another sound as you say them. If you pronounce the words below slowly, you can hear the two vowel sounds of the diphthongs.
111,111,111 × 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
A pizza that has radius “z” and height “a” has volume
Pi × z × z × a
A pizza that has radius “z” and height “a” has volume
Pi × z × z × a
Olympics and fine arts
From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games held competitions in the fine arts. Medals were given for literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, and music. Obviously, the art created was required to be Olympic-themed.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra wasn’t actually Egyptian! As far as historians can tell, Egypt’s famous femme fatal was actually Greek!. She was a descendant of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian general Ptolemy.
Ketchup
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn’t popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century!
President Zachary Taylor cause of death
President Zachary Taylor died from a cherry overdose! Zachary Taylor passed away after eating way too many cherries and drinking milk at a Fourth of July party in 1850. He died on July 9th from gastroenteritis. The acid in cherries along with the milk is believed to have caused this.
Pig - France
In 1386, a pig was executed in France. In the Middle Ages, a pig attacked a child who went to die later from their wounds. The pig was arrested, kept in prison, and then sent to court where it stood trial for murder, was found guilty and then executed by hanging!
Shortest War in History
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes! It was between Britain and Zanzibar and known as the Anglo-Zanzibar War, this war occurred on August 27, 1896. It was over the ascension of the next Sultan in Zanzibar and resulted in a British victory.
Tug of War
Tug of War used to be an Olympic sport! It was part of the Olympic schedule between 1900 and 1920 and occurred at 5 different Summer Olympic Games. The nation to win the most medals in this was Britain with 5 medals, then the USA with 3.
University of Oxford and the Aztec
The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire. The University of Oxford first opened its doors to students all the way back in 1096. By comparison, the Aztec Empire is said to have originated with the founding of the city of Tenochtitlán at Lake Texcoco by the Mexica which occurred in the year 1325.
The most famous female serial killer
The most famous female serial killer was a Hungarian Countess, Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed. She was accused of torturing and killing over 650 young women. Most of them were between the ages of 10 and 14.
World War II casualties on US soil?
n 1945, a balloon bomb launched by Japan landed in Oregon. It fell upon by a woman and five children, who died when it exploded. These were the only World War II casualties on US soil.
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed was a real person! His real name was John Chapman and his hometown was Leominster, Massachusetts. He also has a street named after him, though the city planners decided it would be more poetic to use his mythical name: Johnny Appleseed Lane.
Cars invented?
Cars weren’t invented in the United States! The first car actually was created in the 19th century when European engineers Karl Benz and Emile Levassor were working on automobile inventions. Benz patented the first automobile in 1886.
“Grooms of Stool”
King Henry VIII of England had servants who were called “Grooms of Stool” whose job it was to wipe his bottom after he went to the bathroom. During his reign, he had all of those four such people knighted.
novella Futility
14 years before the infamous Titanic sank, author Morgan Robertson wrote the novella Futility. It was about the large unsinkable ship “Titan” hitting an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic. What’s even weirder is, the Titanic and the fictional Titan did not have enough lifeboats for the thousands of passengers on board– Coincidence?
Cats and Black Death
While in power, Pope Gregory IX declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated. Some believed that the disappearance of those cats helped rats spread the bubonic plague aka the Black Death that killed millions of people in the 1300s.
