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Word "fascism" originates from Italian fascio meaning "group, association". In 1919 Benito Mussolini formed the anti-communist political movement called partito nazionale fascista.
Initially, Nazis called themselves Nasos (the abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers’ Party). Later journalist and writer Konrad Heiden used the word "nazi" as a derogatory term: "nazi" is derived from Bavarian word that means "simple-minded."
To confuse Japanese U.S. Marine Corps employed over 300 Navajo-speaking American Indians as radio code talkers for their radio transmissions in the Pacific.
The Statue of Liberty officially known as the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was a gift of friendship from France in recognition of the friendship established during the American Revolution.
The statue dedicated on October 28, 1886 was a joint effort between America and France. It was agreed upon that the American people were to build the pedestal, and the French people were responsible for the Statue and its assembly in the United States. In both countries various forms of entertainment and lotteries were organized to raise funds.
In America, fund raising for the pedestal was going particularly slowly, and Joseph Pulitzer (who established the Pulitzer Prize) used his newspaper to criticize both the rich and the middle class who failed to finance and donate. Pulitzer's campaign was a success, and it also helped to promote his newspaper adding about 50,000 subscribers in the course of the statue campaign effort.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, US, is a memorial that represents sculptures of four U.S. Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The sculptures are 18 m (60-foot) high, and the entire carving covers 5.17 sq. km (1,278 acres).
According to National Park Service, the memorial attracts around 2 million people annually.
The mount was named after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, in 1885. The purpose of carving project that started in 1927 and cost $989,992.32 was to attract tourists to the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Nearly 400 workers were involved in this project. 90% of the mountain was carved using dynamite.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent (the first is Asia) covering 20.3% of the total Earth's land area.
Africa's largest country is Republic of Sudan, and its smallest country is The Seychelles. Largest city is Cairo, Egypt with 9.2 million people.
The most populated country is Nigeria (over 130 million in 2005) which name suggested by The Times's editor in 1897 is the combination of words "Niger" (country’s longest river) and "Area". Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world.
In 2003 36.2% of Africans lived on under $1 per day.
Africa is the oldest inhabited territory on earth – anthropologists' discoveries prove that humans appeared here perhaps as early as 7 million years ago.
U.S. Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 and soon became the main national east-west highway, used by millions. It ran from Chicago to Los Angeles through 8 states (Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California) and 3 time zones for a total distance of 2347 miles(3755 km).
Route 66 was immortalized by John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath in which he named it the "Mother Road" and the 1940 movie of the same name. In the minds of few generations Route 66 symbolized the road to opportunity.
There were some controversies between the states about naming the road, but Cyrus Stevens Avery, the father of Route 66, settled on "66" as he thought the number would be easy to remember and pleasant to say and hear. The road became the first highway completely paved in 1938.
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