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 storeys high.)
