History is Really Amazing

The unexplainable Steppe Geoglyphs, symbols so big they can only be seen from space, were found in Kazakhstan and are thought to be 8000 years old. No one knows why or how they were made.

Edmund HIlary and Tensing Norgay are the first people to climb the tallest peak in the world, Mt. Everest.

The Great Wall of China, which took centuries to make, is the only man-made structure we can see from space.

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and then went back 19 times to help rescue 300 more slaves. She became a Civil War spy as well as a figure for equality and suffrage.

Enormous, ancient human head structures called Moai were somehow transported from the quarry to Easter Island’s perimeter without any advanced tools or transportation methods. 

Magellan’s crew in 1519 was the first to go around the entire world (even though Magellan himself was killed by them) in a time where much of the world was undiscovered.

Corazon Aquino, the “plain housewife” of an assassinated Filipino senator, led a revolution that topped the Filipino dictator Marcos after 20 years of military reign

Edward Jenner created the first vaccine by injecting cowpox pus into his gardener’s 8-year-old son. 

DNA research also shows Genghis Khan was as much an influential father as he was a warrior- 16 million men alive today as his direct descendants. 

Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier in the Philippines, fought a guerilla war for 30 years after Japan surrendered because he didn’t believe Japan could be defeated.

We left the Earth. We went into space in a little metal rocket. We landed on the moon!

On Oct 8, 1871, 5 different fires in 5 different parts of the American Midwest started. The Great Chicago Fire was one of them, and it wasn’t even the worst fire that night.

Violet Jessop was a ship stewardess/nurse that survived 3 massive ship sinking disasters, including the Titanic.

Derinkuyu is an ancient underground city in modern-day Turkey that would have easily housed 20,000 people + livestock and food supplies.

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in a time where women weren’t supposed to be brave pioneers and flying in a metal plane was an insane idea.

Abebe Bikala, from Ethiopia, ran the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot- and won.

Even after a crazy explosion, power and heat loss, and creating a makeshift carbon dioxide system IN SPACE, the Apollo 13 mission somehow made it back to Earth safely.