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** Welcome to the cool page of this wiki ** ** The home page is pretty boring ** ** So I thought I'd start my own page ** ** Rules: ** ** Post interesting stuff here ** ** Stuff that's cool, factual about the Earth's History, and won't get you in trouble ** ** Please don't delete this Kim ** ** It's all history about the Earth, our world ** ** World **** History ** ** :3 ** -Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
 * Here are some facts about the 1500s :**

- Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall offthe roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

-The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor."

-Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

**Michigan Facts:** -The first soda pop made in the U.S., Vernor's ginger ale, was created by accident in 1866 in Detroit. -The Great Lakes account for one-fifth of the world's surface freshwater supply. That's not really history, but I thought that was pretty crazy. -Many famous and interesting people grew up in Michigan. Henry Ford grew up there. He was the inventor of the automobile. The first automobile was driven in Michigan. Tomas Edison moved to Michigan at a very young age. You also know he invented the first electrical light. Charles Lindburgh lived in Michigan. He was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

-Henry Ford, who produced his first experimental car in 1893, founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

-Faygo was founded in Detroit on November 4, 1907.

-Daniel Gerber(1853-1952) Invented canned baby food in 1927. Gerber :3

-1347 The Bubonic Plague, probably better known as the Black Death, spreads in Europe.
 * Other Facts:**

-1492 Columbus reaches the New World.

-July 1509 Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

-October 1512 Michelangelo finishes painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

-1609 Galileo makes his first astronomical observations with a telescope

-1764 Mozart (Aged eight) writes his first symphony

-1787 The US Constitution is signed

-1789 French Revolution begins

-1879 Edison invents electrical light

-1885 Word's first skyscraper built in Chicago

-1893 New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote

-1905 Einstein announces Theory of Relativity

-1911 Rutherford discovers structure of the atom

-1914 World War I starts

-1919 World War I Ends

-1928 Fleming discovers Penicillin

-1939 Hitler invades Poland. World War II begins

-1945 World War II ends

-1947 Gandhi's civil disobedience movement leads to an independent India