Strange History You Didn't Get in High School (the B.C. years)
3050 B.C. - A Sumerian invents the wheel. Within the week,the idea is stolen and duplicated by other Sumerians, thereby establishing the business code of ethics.
2900 B.C. - Egyptians create Sphinx, one of Seven Great Wonders of the Ancient World, but refuse to talk about it.
1850 B.C. - Britons announce Operation Stonehenge a success after arranging slabs in sufficiently meaningless pattern to confuse scientists for centuries.
1785 B.C. - The first calendar is introduced by Babylonian scientists.
1784 B.C. - Babylonians experience winter in June.
776 B.C. - The world's first known money appears in Persia. World's first known counterfeiter appears in Persia next day.
525 B.C. - The first Olympics are held in Greece. USSR enters six footer with a moustache in women's shot put.
410 B.C. - Rome ends the practice of enslaving debtors, removing biggest single obstacle to the development of the credit card.
404 B.C. - The Peloponnesian war enters 27th year because neither side can find a treaty writer who can spell Peloponnesian.
214 B.C. - Tens of thousands of Chinese people complete 1,500 mile long Great Wall. Neighbour's dog gets through.
1 B.C. - Calendar manufacturers argue over what to call the next year.