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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America. When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the version we learned was. It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) All made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons. For instance ... #6. The Indians Weren't Defeated by White Settlers The Myth: Our history books don't really go into a ton of detail about how the Indians became an endangered species. When American Indians show up in movies made by conscientious white people like Oliver Stone, they usually lament having their land taken from them. This is all the American history you'll ever need to know.

The Truth: GettyYay for apocalypse profiteering! #5. Skubasteve834 #4. Here's what we know. The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. ConceptArt.org Version 3.0. Hideyoshi's deviantART Gallery. 10 Beautiful Places In The World That Actually Exist. The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts. Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900′s. Posted Oct 21, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare58 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people.

His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900′s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944. Peasant girls, Russian Empire. Andrei Petrov Kalganov.