Danny Trejo and Anne Frank were alive at the same time.
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Seems a lot of people don’t know what “time perspective” means.
- John Tyler, 10th president of the US (1790-1862), had a grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler (Nov, 1928) who just recently died in May of 2025.
- The last person born in the 1800's was Emma Morano, born 11/29/1899 Civiasco, Italy. Died 04/15/2017 in Verbania, Italy. So most people reading this had a chance to speak to someone born in 1899.
- All of Napoleon Bonaparte's 4 brothers lived into the age of photography (1826) and had their photo taken with a camera. His youngest brother Jérôme sat for many photo sessions. Only one of his 3 sisters, Caroline, lived into the era but never had a photo taken. Napoleon Bonaparte (08/15/1769 - 05/05/1821), didn't live into the age of photography.
- Humans are the only animals capable of appreciating art. Yes, chimps and elephants can make their own art, but they have no interest in it after they're done with it.
Did 1899 skip December for some reason?
Edit: Or do you mean the last surviving person, or longest-lived person, born in the 1800's?
Or do you mean the last surviving person,
She was the last surviving person born before 1900.
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Hildegard von Bingen was a nun in medieval times that used nature to heal. We are still studying and rework her book on natural plants and how to heal with them. It seems like some plants dont exist anymore
There's a bardcore artist that goes by Hildegard von Blingin. Apparently the OG von Bingen was also something of a notable musician.
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Isaac Newton was the Master of the Mint. Back then, issues with counterfeiting or diluting the coinage was an issue. He personally went in disguise to bars to track down these counterfeiters. Who were then executed.
He is also the inventor of all the ridges around the edge of coins, because at the time it made coins almost impossible to forge.
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Custer's Last Stand happened while the Brooklyn Bridge was being built.
Construction for the bridge occured between 1869-1883.
Custers last stand happened 1876.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn?wprov=sfla1
Some other stuff: Mamoths were still alive when the Pyramids were being built.
the funny thing about Custer is that he was warned about the ambush but his hubris was just too much
also it is rumored among those that have heard direct stories from people that were there was that it was a woman that made the killing blow on him and they probably scalped and then dismembered him and most of his men, and thats why nobody found him
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Europeans used to make a drink out of Egyptian mummies.
Here's some more information on it:
https://historycanthide.substack.com/p/europeans-ate-egyptian-mummies-for
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