THIS "HISTORY REPORT" is composed
of student bloopers collected by teachers
throughout the country.
Christopher Columbus was a great navigator
who discovered America while cursing about
the Atlantic. The winter of 1620 was a hard
one for the Pilgrims. Many people died, and
many babies were born. Capt. John Smith was
responsible for all this.
One of the causes of the Revolutionary War
was the English put tacks in their tea.
Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin
Franklin were two singers of the Declaration
of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and
he was born in a log cabin which he built with
his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he
wore only a tall silk hat. He wrote the
Gettysburg Address while traveling from
Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an
envelope.
Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power,
but, since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't
bear children. The sun never set on the British
Empire because the British Empire is in the East
and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was
the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years.
The 19th century was a time of many great
inventions and thoughts. Samuel Morse invented
a code of telepathy. Charles Darwin was a
naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. And
Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
