The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
The world’s first travel agencies were Cox & Kings, founded in 1758, and Thomas Cook, founded in 1850.
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
Beer was the first trademarked product – British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.
Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.
Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.
Accounts from Holland and Spain suggest that during the 1500s and 1600s urine was commonly used as a tooth-cleaning agent.
Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
The first mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating about 2,500 BC. The soap was made of water, alkali and cassia oil.
The first animal in space was the female Samoyed husky named Laika, launched by the Soviets in 1957.
In 1958, the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.
In 1961. the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.
In 1963, the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps, on 1 May 1840. Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
Napoleon‘s christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.
John Rolfe married Pocahontas the Red Indian Princess in 1613.
Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912.
On 21 June 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first women to parachute from an airplane.
The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.
The world’s first skyscraper was the 10-storey Home Insurance office, built in Chicago in 1885. (During Roman times buildings were up to 8 stories high.)
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ts84 is correct, the most prominent “list” of the seven wonders of the ancient world was created by Antipater, a Greek who lived far before the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal was created by the Mughal Empire of India, an empire that was in existence during the early portion and mid portion of the Renaissance.
I agree with you that the Victoria falls is one of the many wonders of the world and certainly deserves a place amongst the top 7.
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The Taj Mahal is not one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World.
They are:
The Great Pyramid of Giza,
Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
Statue of Zeus at Olympia,
Mausoleum of Mausolus,
Colossus of Rhodes
and the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giz
It is Wrong……….
Other Wondors Like Taj mahal Also Survives in India………
the worlds first travel AGENCIES, plural,not agency and the thomas cook agency is second
Victoria Falls may be a wonder of the world, but it's not one of the recognized Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which are all architectural. Parts of the Lightouse of Alexandria have been found on the sea bed in the Mediterranean. There probably is a Seven Wonders of the Natural World, and Victoria Falls is probably on that.
It's “supposition” and “suberb”, BTW.
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l beg to differ on the issue about the seven wonders of the world. l currently in Zimbabwe that is the country that host the Victoria Falls- the smoke that thunders. This wonder is still intact. everything there is superd. The issue on the seven wonders is not a fact,its probably a supozitn.
Revise it
Fascinating. Thnx for the correction.
The oldest established travel company in the world is not Thomas Cook, but it's Cox & Kings. Cox & Kings was founded in 1758 by Sir Richard Cox.