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Baloo
Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Member # 5

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...is generally not fostered by textbooks.

I offer the following links to prove (or at least lend credence to) my theory that history would be a laugh riot if the right people were allowed to wright the textbooks:

The first great antismoking campaign:
http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970623/wayback1.html
The great Molasses flood of 1919:
http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970519/wayback1.html
The Scientific Rainmaker:
http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970915/wayback.html

If there was more of this and less of the generally dessicated stuff they insist HISTORY consists of. Almost nobody remembers who Louis Cugnot was, but nearly everyone remembers the guy who invented peanut butter.

--Baloo

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Jay the Obscure
Liker Of Jazz
Member # 19

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Hmmm....

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Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
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Jubilee
...complete with cherries!
Member # 99

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I think it would be cool if Baloo re-wrote history books. *LOL*

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Saiyanman Benjita
...in 2012. This time, why not the worst?
Member # 122

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Well that's interesting.

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