Six and a half million Britons went to bed on September 2, 1752, and woke up on September 14. The reason? The Calendar (New Style) Act of 1750, of course. Now, your average Brit had as much knowledge ...
Here's the thing about September 10, 1752. It didn't exist. In fact, as far as the UK and its colonies were concerned (this included what later became the US), there was no September 3 through 13 at ...
O cientista e também escritor e diplomata Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) usou um fio de metal para empinar uma pipa de papel. Este fio estava preso a uma chave, também de metal, manipulada por um fio ...