Pythagoras was a go-cuckoo

Pythagoras

The mathematician Pythagoras, who discovered the Pythagorean Theorem, (A2 + B2 = C2) was a go-cuckoo.

He killed people who didn’t agree or disproved him, he convinced people that facing the sun when you urinate is a heavily punishable sin, and didn’t believe in fractions, or decimals. He simply refused to believe that More than two and less than three could possibly exist.

Today in history: March 31

1999: Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu and his entourage escape attack by suspected  members of the militant Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC).

1991: Seat of government officially moved from Lagos to Abuja.

1991: Albania offers a multi-party election for the first time in 50 years.

1987: Local Government elections are held in the 301 Local Government councils in the country.

1980: American track-and-field legend Jesse Owens died in Phoenix, Arizona.

1980: President Jimmy Carter deregulates the banking industry.

1967: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.

1960: The South African government declares a state of emergency after demonstrations lead to the deaths of more than 50 Africans.

1954: The siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last French outpost in Vietnam, begins after the Viet Minh realize it cannot be taken by direct assault.

1949: Winston Churchill declares that the A-bomb was the only thing that kept the Soviet Union from taking over Europe.

1966: An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New York City.

1970: U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, the first since September 1968.

1948: The Soviet Union begins controlling the Western trains headed toward Berlin.

1945: The United States and Britain bar a Soviet supported provisional regime in Warsaw from entering the U.N. meeting in San Francisco.

1941: Germany begins a counter offensive in North Africa.

1940: La Guardia airport in New York officially opens to the public.

1939: Britain and France agree to support Poland if Germany threatens to invade.

1933: To relieve rampant unemployment, Congress authorizes the Civilian Conservation Corps.

1921: Great Britain declares a state of emergency because of the thousands of coal miners on strike.

1918: Clocks in the United States were set one hour ahead as daylight saving time went into operation for the first time.

1918: Daylight Savings Time goes into effect throughout the United States for the first time.

1917: The United States purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.

1916: General John Pershing and his army rout Pancho Villa's army in Mexico.

1889: The 984-foot (300-metre) Eiffel Tower, a wrought iron technological masterpiece created by Gustave Eiffel to commemorate the French Revolution, was opened to the public at the Centennial Exposition in Paris this day in 1889.

1880: The first electric street lights ever installed by a municipality are turned on in Wabash, Indiana.

1870: Thomas Peterson-Mundy of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, became the first African American to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

1862: Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces takes place at Island 10 on the Mississippi River.

1854: U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in Japan, ending that country's period of seclusion.

1836: The first monthly installment of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is published in London.

1790: In Paris, France, Maximilien Robespierre is elected president of the Jacobin Club.

1779: Russia and Turkey sign a treaty by which they promise to take no military action in the Crimea.

1776: Abigail Adams writes to husband John that women are "determined to foment a rebellion" if the new Declaration of Independence fails to guarantee their rights.

1732: Composer Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria.

1547: In France, Francis–king since 1515–dies and is succeeded by his son Henry II.

1521: The first Roman Catholic mass in the Philippines was celebrated on the island of Limasawa.

1282: The great massacre of the French in Sicily The Sicilian Vespers comes to an end.

1927: Fraudulent Election at its peak

Charles Dunbar Burgess King

(1875-1961)

In this year the world witnessed the most fraudulent election in Liberia when Charles Dunbar Burgess King had received 234,000 votes; however, at the time Liberia had only 15,000 registered voters. This was also listed in the Guinness book of record 1982, as the most fraudulent election reported in history.

Charles D. B. King was the 17th president of Liberia. He was in office within the duration of 10 years (1920-1930). He was born 12th March, 1875 in Monrovia, Liberia; he became the president of Liberia under the True Whig political party. He died 4th September, 1961 (aged 86).

Today in history: March 30

2003: A law banning cigarette smoking in all places of employment, including restaurants and bars, went into effect in New York City.
2002: Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who was queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1936–52), died in her sleep at Windsor Castle at age 101.
1987: Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers is bought for $39.85 million.
1981: In Washington, D.C., on this day in 1981, barely two months after his inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by would-be assassin John W. Hinckley, Jr.
1975: As the North Vietnamese forces move toward Saigon, desperate South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets.
1972: Hanoi launches its heaviest attack in four years, crossing the DMZ.
1957: Tunisia and Morocco sign a friendship treaty in Rabat.
1950: President Harry S Truman denounces Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
1946: The Allies seize 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.
1945: The Red Army advances into Austria.
1944: The U.S. fleet attacks Palau, near the Philippines.
1943: Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration, Oklahoma, opens on Broadway.
1941: The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel begins its first offensive against British forces in Libya.
1936: Britain announces a naval construction program of 38 warships. This is the largest construction program in 15 years.
1916: Mexican bandit Pancho Villa kills 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.
1914: American blues vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Sonny Boy Williamson was born in Jackson, Tennessee.
1912: The Treaty of Fès established the French protectorate in Morocco.
1909: The Queensboro Bridge in New York opens. It is the first double decker bridge and links Manhattan and Queens.
1885: In Afghanistan, Russian troops inflict a crushing defeat on Afghan forces Ak Teppe despite orders not to fight.
1870: President U.S. Grant signs bill readmitting Texas to the Union, the last Confederate state readmitted.
1867: William H. Seward, secretary of state under U.S. President Andrew Johnson, signed the Alaska Purchase, a treaty ceding Russian North America to the United States for a price—$7.2 million—that amounted to about two cents per acre.
1858: Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents the pencil with an eraser attached on one end.
1856: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War.
1840: The English dandy Beau Brummell died, destitute and mad, in Caen, France.
1840: "Beau" Brummell, the English dandy and former favorite of the prince regent, dies in a French lunatic asylum for paupers.
1492: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sign a decree expelling all Jews from Spain.
1282: The people of Palermo massacred 2,000 French residents in the Sicilian Vespers, a revolt against the Angevin King Charles I.

Today in History: March 29

1986: A court in Rome declared innocent six men in a plot to kill the Pope.
1976: Eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted for shooting four Kent State students during an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970.

1975: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declares that he will reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.

1973: American troops evacuated Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) as the United States ended its involvement in the Vietnam War.

1971: Lt. William L. Calley Jr. is found guilty for his actions in the My Lai massacre.

1967: France launches its first nuclear submarine.

1966: Leonid Brezhenev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounces the American policy in Vietnam and calls it one of aggression.

1962: Cuba opens the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.

1961: The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, is ratified.

1952: President Harry Truman removes himself from the presidential race.

1951: The Chinese reject Gen. Douglas MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea.

1951: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I opens on Broadway starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner.

1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of espionage and sentenced to death for turning over U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union.

1943: British Conservative politician John Major, who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997, was born.

1941: The British sink five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean.

1936: Italy firebombs the Ethiopian city of Harar.

1917: Man o' War, perhaps the most famous American Thoroughbred in 20th-century horse racing, was foaled.

1916: The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo.

1913: The German government announces a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget.

1903: A regular news service begins between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.

1886: Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time at a drugstore in Atlanta. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claims it can cure anything from hysteria to the common cold.

1879: British troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment repulse a major attack by Zulu tribesmen in northwest Zululand.

1867: The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.

1867: On this day in 1867, with the British North America Act, the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada were united as the Dominion of Canada, and the province of Canada was separated into Quebec and Ontario.

1847: U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott take possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz.

1827: Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is buried in Vienna amidst a crowd of over 10,000 mourners.

1807: German astronomer Wilhelm Olbers discovered the minor planet Vesta, the brightest asteroid in the sky.

1790: John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States (1841–45), was born.

1638: A permanent European colony is established in present-day Delaware.

1461: Edward IV defeated Henry VI for the throne of England in the bloodiest battle of the York-Lancaster conflict known as the Wars of the Roses.

Most valuable currencies in the world: U.S. Dollar is Missing

10. Switzerland franc (1 Franc = 1.12 USD)

Switzerland: A federated country of central Europe has a stable, prosperous and high- tech economy. In 2011, it was ranked as being the wealthiest country in the world in per capital terms (with 'wealth' being defined to include both financial and non-financial assets). It has the world's nineteenth largest economy by nominal GDP and the thirty-sixth largest by purchasing power parity. It is the twentieth largest exporter, despite its size. Switzerland has the highest European rating in the Index of Economic Freedom 2010, while also providing large coverage through public services.

9. Cayman Islands Dollar (1 KYD = 1.22 USD)

Cayman Island: British colony in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac, situated about 180 miles (290 kilometres) northwest of Jamaica. With no direct taxation, the islands thrive as an offshore financial center, with hundreds of banks, insurers and mutual funds. One Cayman Islands Dollar equals $1.22 US. The earlier currency used in Cayman Islands was Jamaican dollar, which was replaced in 1972. On the islands, the US dollar is accepted as legal currency.

8. Azerbaijan Manat (1 Manat = 1.28 USD)

After gaining independence in 1991 from the former soviet state, Azerbaijan became a member of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Islamic Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The banking system of Azerbaijan consists of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, commercial banks and non-banking credit organizations. Its large oil reserve also did add value.

7. European Euro (1 EUR = 1.37 USD)

The Euro is the second largest reserve currency as well as the most traded currency in the world after the USD. It was officially introduced in 1999; the multinational Euro didn’t begin changing hands until January 2001. After a rocky start, the Euro has gained on the dollar for years. The currency is the official currency of Eurozone that comprises of 17 countries. Some these include Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.

6.  Jordanian Dinar (1 JOD =1.41 USD)

Jordan: An Arab country of Southwest Asia, in the rocky desert of the northern Arabian Peninsula. From 1927 to 1950, the Palestine Currency Board issued Palestine pound as the official currency in both Palestine and the Trans-Jordan Emirate, according to Wikipedia. When Jordan became independent in 1946, the country wanted its own currency and Jordanian dinar became the kingdom’s official currency.

5. UK Pound Sterling (1 GBP = 1.64 USD)

United Kingdom: island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain—which contains England, Wales, and Scotland-as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. Pound Sterling is the fourth most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the US dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen.

4. Latvian Lats (1 LVL= 1.97 USD)

One Lats is currently worth $1.97 US. Latvia: country of northeastern Europe, one of the Baltic States, has entered the process to phase out the Lat in favor of the Euro, which is expected to be the official currency around 2012.

3. Omani Rial (1 OMR = 2.60 USD)

Oman: a country occupying the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula at the confluence of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. It has a strategically important position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. It has had its currency exchange rate pegged to the dollar at a rate of 1 OMR = $2.60 US since 1986. With that pegged relationship holding firm, seems as though the Rial’s fate remains tied to the fate of the dollar.

2. Bahrain Dinar (1 BHD= 2.65 USD)

Bahrain industry relies on petroleum production and refining, as well as financial services and construction. With an exchange rate to the US dollar at around $2.65 for one Bahraini Dinar, it’s the second most valuable currency in the world.

1. Kuwaiti Dinar (1 KWD= 3.54 USD)

Kuwait being situated in one of the driest areas on the surface of the earth, never ceases to amaze admirers why it has the world’s most valuable currency, but, we fail to realize that they have nearly one-tenth of the World’s proven oil reserves. The Kuwait currency is currently pegged to the dollar.

Current list dated 11th February, 2014.

Today in history: March 28

1999: An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.

1990: Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush.

1986: The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.

1979: At 4:00 AM an automatic valve mistakenly closed at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, culminating in radioactive leakage.

1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in General Hospital in Washington, D.C.

1962: The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.

1946: Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina. He will hold the office for six years.

1945: Germany launches the last of its V-2 rockets against England.

1942: A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.

1941: The Italian fleet is routed by the British at the Battle of Battle of Cape Matapan

1941: English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body is never found.

1939: Francisco Franco, leader of the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War, captured the capital city of Madrid en route to his overthrow of the democratic Spanish republic.

1939: The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.

1933: Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.

1930: Built as Byzantium about 657 BC, then renamed Constantinople in the 4th century AD after Constantine the Great made the city his capital, the Turkish city of Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930 and also from Angora to Ankara

1921: President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States.

1920: American motion-picture actors Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were wed.

1917: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain's first official service women.

1910: The first seaplane takes off from water at Martinques, France.

1908: Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.

1890: American bandleader Paul Whiteman, called the “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and '30s, was born.

1885: The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States.

1864: A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.

1854: Britain and France declare war on Russia.

1774: Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.