Student Bloopers. The World According to Student Bloopers Richard LedererSt.
Paul's School One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice.
In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. Ancient History Blog. Project Avalon - Klaus Dona: The Hidden History of the Human Race. Click here for the PDF version of this interview (20 pages) Click here for the video presentation March 2010 **Ed note: Some transcripts contain words or phrases that are inaudible or difficult to hear and are, therefore, designated in square brackets.** BILL RYAN (BR): This is Bill Ryan here from Project Camelot and Project Avalon.
Klaus is going to be doing an audio commentary on one of his extremely special, unusual, and fascinating slide shows about the artifacts and the various phenomena that he has been researching, discovering, investigating personally all over the world relating to what I think you could legitimately call The Hidden History of the Human Race. KLAUS DONA (KD): That's a very good summary, yes. BR: [laughs] So I'm going to step back here, and what follows now, just kick back and enjoy this slide presentation. What are we looking at here ? Ancient World Maps Ecuador Even the next one, [right, above] you can see how this statue is sitting. Bolivia Colombia Giants BR: Good! Our animated maps in free access - The map as history. The first Christian communities (1st century) This map is part of a series of 17 animated maps showing History of Christianity. 4 are currently available online Independence for India and Pakistan Clement Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister who replaced Winston Churchill in July 1945, soon realised that independence for India was inevitable, but disagreements among the Indian politicians made the negotiations very difficult.
This map is part of a series of 14 animated maps showing Decolonization after 1945 The circumference of the Earth and the Route towards the West In the 3rd century BCE, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable precision. In later centuries, other Greek geographers, including the most famous of them all Ptolemy, suggested a much lower figure for the circumference for our planet. This under-estimation was adopted by 15th century map-makers. 7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World. Hermocrates, by Plato What is it: The rumored third book to Plato's little unified field theory trilogy.
The first two were Timaeus and Critias and are basically transcriptions of one of the greatest, most influential thinkers to ever live discussing how the universe, uh, happened. If Hemocrates was anything like the first two books in the series, it would have dealt with some brilliant, advanced concepts (like molecules and the Golden Ratio), and would have influenced thinkers and scientists for years to come. AncientWorlds. 10 Curious Tales and Oddities From History. Weird Stuff What could be better?
The bizarre and history combined in one list! It is a well known fact that I love both subjects (and facts and factlets), so this list really has been a joy to put together. Once you are done reading be sure to mention any other oddities we may not know in the comments and perhaps they will appear on a forthcoming follow up list. In 1900, Maria Salome (20 years old) made her grand debut as the first female bullfighter. When Pope Paul VI died, in 1978, it was the mark of the beginning of the year of three Popes. Speaking of strange deaths, in 1979, a 58 year old man and his 53 year old wife died from spending too much time in their hot tub in California. The Phantom time hypothesis is a theory developed by Heribert Illig (born 1947) in 1991, which proposes that there has been a systematic effort to make it appear that periods of history, specifically that of Europe during the Early Middle Ages (AD 614–911) exist, when they do not.
Jamie Frater. History: Ancient History in-depth. Knowledge Files. Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know the Ancients Had. History When we think of Ancient civilizations we think of togas, chariots and gladiators.
What we don’t think about is flame-throwers, eye surgery and other inventions we take for granted. This is a list of things that the ancients had that you think are modern inventions. 10. Cosmetics Roman women would put metal compounds on their faces in order to enhance their color. 9. Although first used effectively by the Greeks in their measurements between cities, the Romans employed a very simple cart odometer that had 4-foot wheels. 8. The Ancient Byzantines first used flame-throwers as a naval device, usually to set alight the rigging and sails of an enemy vessel. 7. Ancient Civilizations. Laputan Logic - The Evolution of Numbers.
The Evolution of Numbers Posted on Tuesday 13 February 2007 Counting in groups of ten, a practice evidently suggested by the number of fingers on two hands has been practiced by many cultures for millennia .
But the act of writing them down using a system of place notation system which can expand without limit is only comparatively recent innovation. The 5 Most Terrifying Civilizations In The History of the World. All it took was one movie, and now everybody knows the ancient Spartans weren't the kind of guys you'd want to invite to your fancy cheese-tasting party.
They'd probably stumble in, mock you for not being a full-time member of the military, then impale all of your guests with spears. Not to mention they'd eat all your fancy cheeses. And you know what? It wasn't just a movie. Books and Films - Ancient Inventions.