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Just to illustrate how young our nation really is...
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:43 pm
This hypothetical blows me away, I don't know why, but it does. So there are still people alive today who knew and talked to men who fought in the American Civil War. The last verifiable veteran of that conflict didn't die until 1956 - just 64 years ago.
Now the last veteran of the American Revolution died in 1869. Many of our Civil War veterans had grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought in that conflict or were friends with men who fought in that conflict. Many of those Civil War veterans survived well into the 1930s and 40s.
That means that there are Americans walking this earth today who knew someone earlier in their life who personally knew Revolutionary War veterans. I don't know why, but that blows my mind.
Now the last veteran of the American Revolution died in 1869. Many of our Civil War veterans had grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought in that conflict or were friends with men who fought in that conflict. Many of those Civil War veterans survived well into the 1930s and 40s.
That means that there are Americans walking this earth today who knew someone earlier in their life who personally knew Revolutionary War veterans. I don't know why, but that blows my mind.
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Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:44 pm to RollTide1987
The oldest companies in some countries started 1000 years before we were a country.
My former boss's grandfather was born into slavery. He is in his mid 50s right now.
My former boss's grandfather was born into slavery. He is in his mid 50s right now.
This post was edited on 2/6/20 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:45 pm to RollTide1987
Throw in a space and weed reference and we've got an Unknown Knight thread
It is pretty crazy to think about though
It is pretty crazy to think about though
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:46 pm to RollTide1987
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but that blows my mind.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:46 pm to RollTide1987
The University of Oxford was founded almost 3 Americas before America became a country
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:46 pm to RollTide1987
quote:Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
but that blows my mind.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:56 pm to RollTide1987
Which time gap is larger?
Time between Columbus discovering America and the USA becoming a country.
Time between the USA becoming a country and now.
Hint....
We still have ~40 years to go before they are equal.
Time between Columbus discovering America and the USA becoming a country.
Time between the USA becoming a country and now.
Hint....
We still have ~40 years to go before they are equal.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:00 pm to RollTide1987
If you were born in 1987, you only have to live to be 71 and you will have lived for over 25% of this country’s existence.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:03 pm to prostyleoffensetime
El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego, California (724.3 miles) than it is to Houston, Texas (746.4 miles).
This post was edited on 2/6/20 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:05 pm to prostyleoffensetime
I was born in 1988 - neat.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:08 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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If you were born in 1987, you only have to live to be 71 and you will have lived for over 25% of this country’s existence.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:08 pm to LSURussian
Dalhart, TX is closer to six other state capitals than it is to Austin, TX.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:12 pm to RollTide1987
The last remnants of the Roman empire died in 1453, 40 years before Columbus got to North America.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:12 pm to RollTide1987
Go to Rome or any other old world city in Europe and you'll feel like America is even younger as you walk through buildings that are 1000 or 2000 years old and still standing.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:13 pm to DarthRebel
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:15 pm to LSURussian
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
That's my favorite one, but I like to use the Luxor in Vegas instead of the iPhone.
The Great Pyramids are frickING OLD.
This post was edited on 2/6/20 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:18 pm to RollTide1987
This post was edited on 2/6/20 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:21 pm to lowhound
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Go to Rome or any other old world city in Europe and you'll feel like America is even younger as you walk through buildings that are 1000 or 2000 years old and still standing.
I went to Rome in 2004 and touched the very spot where Marcus Antony laid the body of Julius Caesar after removing it from the Roman Forum. That event happened about 40 years before the birth of Christ.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:27 pm to RollTide1987
The debut of "That 70's Show" was closer to the 70's than we are to the debut of "That 70's Show."
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:29 pm to RollTide1987
Joe Rogan has a bit about this. People live to be 100, the country is 244 years old. That's less than 3 people ago
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