make a list of 43 things i know very little about, and then learn at least 3 things about each of them

1702-1714: Queen Anne

1714-1727: King George I

1727-1760: King George II

1760-1820: King George III

So basically, kings and queens in the 18th century were: Anne, George George George.

1. President is Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister is Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change party.
2. The health system of the country has deteriorated greatly, with three of the country’s four main hospitals closing in December 2008.
3. A common food in Zimbabwe is a porridge made from cornmeal called sadza, and is often eaten with greens, curdled milk, or dried Tanganyika sardine.
4. One of the most common languages of Zimbabwe, spoken by 80% of the population, is Shona. This language is of the Bantu family, and has at least four main dialects.

1. Rainwater can be harvested: it can be collected from gutters, filtered, and used for things like washing-machines and flushing toilets. This saves tap water being used, and is better for the environment.
2. Humans can influence when it rains! In the United States’ Eastern Seabord there’s a 22% higher chance that it will rain on Saturdays than Mondays. This is a result of pollution building up in the air over the week. How ironic..
3. Rainwater usually has a pH of just below 6. So it can be naturally quite acidic. To make it safe for drinking, it needs to be physically filtered, and also chemically filtered to remove harmful chemicals picked up as it falls through the air.

1. Classical music: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century.
2. Modern music: jazz, hiphop, blues, soul, rock, electronic, acoustic, reggae, ska, house, punk, club, rap, drum and bass, Rn’B, folk.
3. A music genre identifies music that share a common musical language.

• Cicero was a Roman statesman and philosopher who lived about a hundred years before Christ.
• Cicero’s childhood dream was “always to be best and far to excel the others”, a line taken from Homer’s Iliad.
• Cicero was murdered about 40 years before the birth of Christ, and his head and hands were displayed on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum by his political enemies.

• To make pastry, you just add plain flour and fat together in a 2:1 ratio (eg. 4oz flour to 2oz butter).
• You then add enough cold water to make it stick together into a ball, so you can roll it out.
• Pastry is usually cooked at quite a high temperature, eg 220 deg C.

I made mincemeat tarts this afternoon!

• The Revolution happened in October 1917, when the Bolsheviks headed by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin seized control.
• The Revolution toppled the Romanov dynasty, the current ruler of which had been Tsar Nicholas II. The Russian royal family were all shot in a basement of their palace.
• The Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, kept a close watch on the revolutionaries and arrested many of them. Some of them (including Stalin) were deported to Siberia in punishment for their plotting (before the Revolution).

• One of the reasons the French Revolution started (1789-99), was Louis XVI’s firing of his popular finance minister Jacques Necker.
• The Bastille was stormed in 1789—but they only let out seven prisoners. I thought that they all went free!
• In October of that year, there was a Women’s March in protest of what the king and aristocracy was doing—7,000 women marched into Versailles bringing cannons with them! go girls :D

• The United States Congress has two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
• The House of Representatives consists of 435 members. Each represents a district and serves for a 2-year term.
• The Senate has 100 members (2 for each state).

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