16th 18th facts

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The government of Nazi Germany memorialized the victims of European witch trials of the 16th to 18th centuries, as they thought witchcraft represented the remnant of an indigenous "Aryan" religion untainted by the Judaic influence of Christianity.

In 1974, The Godfather premiered on NBC over two nights (November 16th and November 18th) from 9pm-11pm. On both nights, at 11pm, New York City's Municipal Water Authorities had some overflow problems from all the toilets flushing around the same time.

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1. "1 million to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th"

2. In the 16th-18th century, the linguistically isolated Basque people of the Pyrenees would sail so far north to whale, that they formed pidgins (simple mixes of two languages allowing basic communication) with both the Icelandic and Algonquin peoples.

3. An Ohio State U Professor estimates that around 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries

4. 120 thousand exiled Irish soldiers known as the ''Wild Geese'' served many European armies from the 16th to 18th centuries.In high demand by Europe's powers to lead armies due to years of combat experience against the British. They became Successful Generals in Spain, France, Austria and Russia

5. Between the 16th and 18th centuries there was a pidgin language spoken by Basque settlers and natives in eastern Canada.

6. First wooden full dentures were invented in Japan around the early 16th century. It would not be replicated in the West until the late 18th century

7. Queen Elizabeth II holds the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th places on the list of the world's current longest reigning monarchs

8. Amsterdam is rich with historical buildings. There are 6,800 buildings in the city that were built in the 16th to 18th centuries.

9. During the 16th-18th centuries, Algonquian Native Americans and Basque Sailors traded so much that they actually started speaking a Pigdin of Basque and Algonquian languages

10. People tend to show their left cheek in selfies, just like artists from the 16th-18th centuries used to do in their self-portraits.

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President McKinley served as House Representative from Ohio's 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th districts as politcal opponents repeated tried to gerrymander him out of office

The potato was first cultivated in South America as long as 10,000 years ago, but didn't arrive in Europe until 16th century, and didn't become a staple crop until the late 18th century - source

Because Elizabeth II is the Queen of 16 independent and legally distinct monarchies she is the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st and 22nd longest currently reigning monarch in the world - source