General Knowledge

Ancient Egypt constructed the world's earliest artificial port or harbor along the coast of the Red Sea 4,500 years ago. Humans have engaged in maritime commerce and other maritime-related endeavors for millennia, predating the construction of the man-made port in Wadi al-Jarf.

Blarney Flaherty, age 10, was the first paperboy employed by the Museum of the City of New York in the United States. In 1833, in response to an advertisement for steady men in The Sun, adolescent Flaherty lifted a stack of newspapers.

In 2019, the United Nations reported that more than half of the African infant population was undocumented; in their own countries, they had never had their births registered and, as a result, they did not exist in the bureaucratic systems of their nations.

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in the year 1451. Columbus, an avid student of geography and history, began sailing at age 14 and spent the majority of his time creating maps of Europe.

During the Pacific War, naval combat occurred during the Battle of Angamos. It was contested at Punta Angamos on October 8, 1879, between Chile and Peru.

Prior to becoming a war hero, Alvin C. York lived a simple existence in Tennessee. York, who was born in 1887 to a blacksmith, developed hunting skills and frequently had to provide sustenance for his large family.