Vol 19, Issue 4. Tombs of pyramid builders were discovered in the backyard of the pyramids, and the way they were buried, and their proximity to the pyramids suggested that they were both paid and respected. When I moved to Vermont from Mississippi I realized this was a national problem. Historian James W. Loewen breaks down popular misconceptions taught in American textbooks. It took 11 years for his case to reach the Supreme Court. Many more Northerners were outraged at the decision because it said that Congress could not restrict slavery in the territories at all (as had been done for many years, starting in 1820 with the Missouri Compromise).
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Still, it wasn’t a small feat to cross the Atlantic by airplane between two major international cities on your own.
According to the majority opinion, Dred Scott was the property of his owner, and property could not be taken from a person without due process of law. Here are ten of the biggest lies taught to us in school. More likely the ferry had to cut through thick layers of ice on the Delaware without a glowing sky to guide them nor a wide river to travel.
And be sure to find out how the latest Vogue cover manages to be the most racist masturbation fodder since Paris Hilton became too skanky to excite us anymore. The publishers haven’t even caught up with this change in our culture.
"Feds say Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme was worse ever." In China this standard of beauty was achieved by foot-binding. "Who Gets the Rest of Madoff's Money?" The honor for number one goes to British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown who back in 1919 flew nonstop from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Vickers Vimy biplane before crash landing in a bog. I Get Paid Either Way, Assholes. ." On the same day that construction began on the Berlin Wall, German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht publicly claimed that “Nobody has the intention of building a wall.” The wall stood for almost thirty years and separated the city (and families) before it was brought down. Between February, 1692 and May, 1693, nearly 200 people were accused of practicing “the Devil’s magic,” including the elderly, homeless, and a 4-year-old girl who was grilled on the stand. The next time you see somewhere wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt, be sure to tell them, “Ah, I see you’re a fan of Ub Iwerks.”. After Kennedy’s assassination, Johnson put all of his efforts into passing the civil rights legislation, and in the end, Kennedy got the credit. And the flag in the Leutze painting? If you believe the one time your group was center stage in American history, they screwed up. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Do you question the accuracy of a fact you just read? It’s true that Franklin proposed a kite experiment, but he never performed it, and the experiment had nothing to do with lightning. Paul Revere shouting “The British are coming!” in the streets would have been the modern day equivalent of running down Times Square in New York and shouting, “The Americans are coming!” At that point, the colonies were still technically British, and not everybody was cool with the idea of a revolution. “What made him ultimately successful was that he was not a lone inventor, a lone genius, but rather the assembler of the first research and development team at Menlo Park, N.J.”. Many people today who believe the amended story of Franklin's kite experiment grew up immersed in the revisionist history of Walt Disney, whose classic cartoon Ben and Me portrayed Franklin not only as having flown the kite in a thunderstorm, but also having been a complete fucking jerk. Edinburge University Press, 1999. Cars were invented in America? Mostly we’re taught that there weren’t very many people here, and they kind of roamed. Misinformation about Washington has made the rounds with school children and adults over the years, mostly about his teeth and chopping down his father’s cherry tree. We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), this quiz of how well you know the amendments to the Constitution, disturbing historical facts you’ll wish weren’t really true, myths about U.S. presidents that just aren’t true, famous moments in history that never actually happened, no one in 1492 believed the Earth was flat, things you learned in school that aren’t true anymore, facts about America you won’t find in history books, U.S. war trivia questions most people get wrong, historical figures you’ve been picturing wrong, one of the greatest lies that made history, history questions that everyone gets wrong, Do Not Sell My Personal Information – CA Residents. So if you can’t parlez-vous français, you might be able to use the Einstein excuse—but not if you fail to solve for X.
In the painting Washington’s face is lit by lantern and torch against a night sky, but weather records show the crossing happened during a northeaster. Email. Feb. 9, 2009. According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." In a book written decades later by the Catholic propagandist Nicholas Sander he wrote the queen “…had a projecting tooth under the upper lip, and on her right hand, six fingers.” He also noted she hid an ugly cyst on her neck. Modern day portraits of Vikings portray them wearing the horned helmets people commonly associate with them, but that’s not the case. Pin 2. 2009. And to further expand your noggin, check out Cracked's De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew. The records are more in keeping with a dead-of-night crossing at a section of the river less than 300 yards wide. George Washington was our first President? The problems of race relations stem from this time period, and we’re still trying to dig ourselves out even today. Secondly, there were many that came here before Columbus, like the Vikings or maybe others from different places. President Richard Nixon answers questions about the Watergate scandal.
As a child, we were told, George Washington came into possession of a hatchet, and went about his days chopping the shit out of everything he saw. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev lied to JFK about planting armed nuclear missles in Cuba, but Kennedy called his bluff. How do they learn history? Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. On the ABC show Shark Tank, the ‘sharks’—aka investors—are big on asking entrepreneurs if they’ve obtained a patent on their product. No clan is left untouched, and even families that seem happy and normal on…. When we do, we depend on our loyal, helpful readers to point out how we can do better. Folks came in, burning their fields and forcing them to roam. In Praise of Martha Jones, the Oft Unappreciated Doctor Who Companion, I’m the S-Block from Tetris and I’m the Best Tetromino, The curious case of Kylie on the Forbes cover page, Elon Musk’s Reputation of Genius Is Waning, Prolific Chicano Writer Rudolfo Anaya Dies at 82. In fact, of course there were 100 million people living in the Americas when he got here. When she's not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her long-time partner and her dog. “Edison was in a very competitive race where he borrowed—some said stole—ideas from other inventors who were also working on an incandescent bulb,” explained Ernest Freeberg, author of The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America, to U.S. News & World Report. Upon being quizzed by his father about the event, Washington proudly admitted that he had been the culprit, due to his inability to lie.
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