Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena) was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush from the mid to late 1st century BCE. She is known for invading Roman occupied Egypt and successfully negotiating with Roman emperor Augustus to end Roman retaliation, thus retaining Kushite independence for the rest of her reign and then some.

Maud de Braose was an English noblewoman during the reign of King John. It is said that the king heard she had spoken indiscreetly about his probable murder of his nephew, Prince Arthur, so he could take the throne. After making suspicious demands, she fled but was eventually captured by the king along with her son. While she was not formally executed, she and her son were starved to death on the king’s orders, making her one of the earliest known noblewomen to be killed by the English crown.

The name Alfred comes from English and means “elf counsel” or “wise counselor.”

In 2025, thanks to the Elon Musk-led DOGE, federal government jobs were cut by 9 percent. While government spending still increased by 6 percent.

Simon Fraser was a Scottish landowner and head of Clan Fraser of Lovat. He was the last man in Britain to be executed by beheading. He was convicted of high treason for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1745.

When peanut M&M’s came out in 1954, they only came in brown.

The hyoid bone is a bone in the throat and is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone.

The state with the most active volcanoes is not Hawaii, but Alaska.

The Iberian words for hello, such as the Spanish hola and Portuguese olá, are likely connected to the German hallo and English hello, possibly through a borrowed French influence. The Latin word for hello is salve, which remains intact in Italian.

We do not pronounce the “h” in “herb” in American English because the word came from Old French erbe, and Americans kept that original pronunciation. The spelling was later changed to match Latin herba, but the “h” sound was not added in American English, unlike in British English, where it was adopted in the 19th century.