ON THE LIST ( click above link for the explanation ):
* Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America.
* The Pilgrims didn’t host the first Thanksgiving.
* Napoleon Bonaparte wasn’t short ( at least compared to the men of his time)
* Marie Antoinette didn’t say, “Let them eat cake.”
* Paul Revere never yelled, “The British are coming!”
* George Washington didn’t have wooden teeth.
* Albert Einstein didn’t fail math.
* A cow kicking over a lantern didn’t cause the Great Chicago Fire.
* Spanish Influenza didn’t originate in Spain.
* Wall Streeters didn’t jump to their deaths following the market crash of 1929.
* Abner Doubleday didn’t invent baseball.
ADD YOUR OWN HISTORICAL MYTH HERE...
TR did not create Thanksgiving. George Washington did on November 26, 1789.
15. If your health care plan, you can keep it. Period.
16. I did not have sex with that woman...
Nope. Spain was neutral in the War, and was one of the few countries where reports weren't censored.
So it was one of the few countries that reported flu, even though all were suffering.
Some of my favorite myths busted
FDR’s “New Deal” socialist programs didn’t get us out of the great depression, in fact most honest economists say they actually prolonged and deepened the depression, which finally ended due to the massive industrial buildup of WW II...
Just because the Jews didn't build them, I find it very difficult to believe it was done voluntarily.
Sarah Palin did NOT say, “I can see Russia from my house”.
FDR did not get us out of the Great Depression!
“according to the History Channel” is in this article three times LOL!
Fun anyway.
The New Deal did not end the Great Depression.
WRONG!
That brings to mind a children's song from my youth:
Pharaoh built a pyramid reaching to the sky.
Needed lots of slaves he did to make it stand up high
Pity those poor Israelites,
Working days and toiling nights.
Let my people go.
Yep, a sort of couvée, required labor of free (depending on your definition) civilians, usually done under religious auspices. At least that's the current cover story.
But it was aliens.
Paul Revere never yelled, "The British are coming!" ...Paul Revere needed to keep his knowledge of the Brits' arrival on the down-low. British troops had already camped out across the Massachusetts countryside...
Well, sort of - they were patrolling and in fact, one of their patrols captured Revere, took his horse, and let him go on foot. Those were largely troops that had been there for awhile and had achieved a modus vivendi with the fractious Colonials. What changed was that the new ones in town didn't recognize this arrangement and ended up firing live ammunition at Parker and his men at Lexington Green, to the latter's astonishment. What Revere was yelling - and of course he was yelling, he was utilizing the alerting mechanism that had been in use during the French and Indian Wars - was "the Regulars are coming!" The new kids in town were taking the thing to another level. Revere had boasted to his captors that they'd raise 500 men before the British reached Concord. By the time it was over it was more like 2500.
In his book The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (Garden City, NY: Garden City, 1924), Arthur Weigall wrote that Cleopatra was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to learn the Egyptian language spoken by most of her subjects.
Blücher is not German for glue.
Over the years I have been personally assured more than once by black acquaintances that Celopatra was "African-American." Not kidding.
Tuskegee Airmen did lose a bomber. About 25 actually.