Jefferson died a few hours prior to Adams, but since the news hadn’t yet traveled from Virginia, where Jefferson had died, to Massachusetts, where Adams had died, Adams’ final words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
One more:
During his pontificate (1099-1118), Pope Paschal II issued “Piae Postulatio Voluntatis”, in which he officially recognized the existence of the Crusaders as an operative and militant part of the Catholic Church.
He also appointed Eiríkr Gnúpsson as a bishop of Greenland and Vinland. First American bishop.
My grandfather was born in 1902 and died in 1981, so his life spanned both events. He was even alive for the first test flights of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
AK84:
Maybe. David is (likely) mentioned in the Tel Dan Stele, although there are those who say the mention of “his house” is not proof of his existence as an individual, and there are also some who question that the inscription refers to that at all.
The writings of Procopius, a sixth-century Byzantine historian, speak of his having seen a marble column in Libya on which was inscribed that the residents were Canaanites who had fled from the Biblical Joshua. I don’t know if a secondary source like that counts as “attesting” to.
The only king of Israel of whom we have a contemporary image is Jehu
It’s on the Obelisk of Shalmaneser
Not very surprising that there are almost no contemporary images of Jewish kings (and the one we have is from a non-Jewish source), given the Biblical prohibition against graven images. Granted, there was rampant idol-worship in Israel during much of that era, but very possibly people felt it was justified for (supposed) deities but not for self-aggrandizement.
Chewing it gave him something to do in Staten Island.
“Dear Darling Fascist Bully Boy…”
I think the more dramatic changes started about two hundred years ago. From the beginning of human history to that date, all machinery was dependent on muscle power (human or animal) or maybe water or wind power. And the only lighting was fire (and really the only source of heat as well).
Today many, many people have no experience with horses or know how to build a fire. Your ancestors would have found that unimaginable.
The famous painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware depicts two future Presidents. The officer holding the flag behind George Washington is James Monroe, who was one of Washington’s aides during the war.
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara Walters, Max von Sydow, and Christopher Plummer were all born in 1929.
The Confederate States of America was a sovereigh nation before Germany or Italy, whose constituent states did not unify into nations until 1871
The Dodgers have been in Los Angeles longer than Brooklyn (61 vs 44 years)
Before the Cubs won the Series in 2016, 1908’s Series title was closer to the Battle of Waterloo than 2015
And these two really disturb me:
Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was in the “French Prince of Bel Air” pilot.
Ralph Macchio is now older than Pat Morita was in “The Karate Kid”
The daughter of John Tyler was alive a century after he left office in 1845. Tyler also has two living grandchildren. Tyler’s wife, Julia Gardner Tyler, was born on Gardner’s Island in New York, still one of the largest privately owned islands in the country. It has been in the Gardner family since 1639, when it was granted to Lion Gardner by Charles I.
Tyler himself was born when George Washington was president, so the three generations of Tylers cover every US president.
The last execution by guillotine in France was carried out the same year the original Star Wars premiered.
Luggage with wheels was introduced the year after humans walked on the moon.
In late-1700s Vienna, a man running to the top of the church tower and yelling “Fire!” was loud enough to be useful to firefighters.
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The Mongols fought against the Crusaders and the Samurai…at the same time.
Genghis Khan sacked Beijing the same year Magna Carta was signed.
Auschwitz and McDonalds were founded the same month in 1940.
Vikings armed with axes formed an elite unitof the Byzantine army for centuries, and acted as personal bodyguards to Byzantine Emperors.
There is also this: people often much overestimate how much stuff actually survives from antiquity, even among people who have no problems with self-aggrandizement in stone.
For example - there is frustratingly little that survives from pre-Islamic invasion India; some pillars with inscriptions on them, some temples, the Vedas of course, but it is very difficult to get any sense of the flow of Indian history, or any details of events - it is just lost.
From Harrappa, or the Indus Valley civilization - there is nothing at all, other than the remains of their cities and a few cylinder seals: they had writing, but nearly all is lost, so it can’t be deciphered.
Plot twist : they were the same person all along.