7 Common Misconceptions About History

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– Nero Fiddled While Rome Was Burning:
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo270/cileuhkorong/untitled6.jpg
– Egyptians Couldn’t Handle Democracy Because They Were Stupid:
http://itbegsthequestion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/egyptian.jpg
– Marie Antoinette Wants You To Eat Cake:
http://www.wpclipart.com/famous/Marie_Antoinette.png
– Paul Revere Saves America Entirely By Himself:
http://paul-revere-house.visit-boston-massachusetts.com/Ride-of-Paul-Revere.jpg
– A Pope With A Vagina:
http://www.biosagenda.nl/ban_image.php?ID=6775&q=90&newwidth=320&newheight=233
– Lizzie Borden Killed Her Parents, Was Totally Crazy:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__hSSGIZ1L0k/R7ysWaUt6TI/AAAAAAAAAT4/tW9wKl016Rw/s400/lizzie.jpg
– Thomas Edison Invented AC Power:
http://www.nndb.com/people/333/000022267/edison-in-lab.jpg

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Comments

http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Ball/100001876718159 Mark Ball

True. Tesla did invent AC power. He had several hundred patents, including the electric motor. He also claimed to have invented a death ray (although he called it a ‘peace ray’), but he couldn’t get military funding to develop it. A genious and a loony
Jdmeaux

History is what historians write, whether it is true or not. It is usually after careful examination of the facts that history is rewritten.
Harry Balzac

Caligula made his horse a senator, not Nero.
Harry Balzac

Caligula made his horse a senator, not Nero.
http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/ NeoDra

Thomas Edison didn’t Invent AC Power?
Dan S.

And Switzerland had a democracy in 1292. Ancient Greeks had kind of a democracy as did the Romans on and off.

Mark is right, Tesla and Westinghouse fought tooth and nail against Edison who was promoting DC power. Great industrial intrigue story.
Rj

It was over fifty years before Marie Antoinette was born that the story of a french noble was supposed to have said the “let them eat cake” line. Small detail but still.
chumporn yusanon

good

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