Every Pharaoh Whose Body Was Found in His Own Pyramid
At the end of May 1934 Jean-Philippe Lauer slid feet first, arms raised above his head, through a robbers’ gap beside a granite plug of nearly 4 tonnes and dropped 2.70 m to the... Read More →
Category: History
Explore the best history facts on FinalWonder, where every post is a complete list worth reading. From retired Monopoly tokens and presidential code names to the origins of McDonald’s and forgotten Nobel Prizes, our history lists cover the details most people miss. Browse the full collection below and find your next deep dive into the past.
Every Royal Mummy in the Pharaohs' Golden Parade
On the evening of Saturday 3 April 2021, a convoy of converted army trucks, painted black and gold and labelled in English, Arabic and hieroglyphs, pulled out of Tahrir Square in Cairo carrying the... Read More →
Every President Born on Louisiana Purchase Land
In the spring of 1803 the United States agreed to pay France $15 million for 828,000 square miles of North America, and nobody who signed the paperwork could say where the land stopped. The... Read More →
Every Signer of the Declaration of Independence Who Lived to See the Louisiana Purchase
Matthew Thornton died at Newburyport, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1803, a New Hampshire physician of about 89 with his name on the Declaration of Independence. He had outlived the Louisiana Purchase treaty by 55... Read More →
Every Senator Who Voted Against the Louisiana Purchase
Congress was not supposed to be in Washington yet. Jefferson had called it into session on October 17, 1803, three weeks ahead of the date fixed by law, and the reason lay on the... Read More →
Every Colonial Capital of the 13 Original Colonies
In the summer of 1630, keeping track of the government of Massachusetts Bay required, above all, a good boat. John Winthrop’s fleet dropped anchor off Salem in June; by August 23 his Court of... Read More →
Every Space on the Original 1904 Landlord's Game Board
The 1940 census records Lizzie Magie’s occupation as ‘maker of games’ and her income from that trade as $0. She worked as a stenographer and typist at the Dead Letter Office in Washington, D.C.,... Read More →
Every President Who Never Had a Dog in the White House
George Washington kept hounds with names like Sweetlips, Tipsy, Drunkard, and Vulcan, bred them with the patient obsession of a man building something permanent, and is credited by the American Kennel Club with helping... Read More →
Every Figure Ever Proposed for Mount Rushmore
In January 1924, a state historian named Doane Robinson stood before the Black and Yellow Trail Association, a highway-booster group, and proposed carving giant figures into the Black Hills. He was thinking of tourists... Read More →
Every Monopoly Property and Its Real Atlantic City Location
The street names on a Monopoly board are not invented. Every one of them was lifted from Atlantic City, New Jersey, a real resort town on a real barrier island, and for ninety years... Read More →
