Am I living in an AU?

May 16, 2010 14:27

I'm grading finals this weekend, so this might not be the last of these you see (or maybe I'll just update this post to avoid spamming) but I had to share some tasty bits.

Regarding the Shakers (18th and 19th century American religious movement that prohibited sex, even for procreation):  They believed that there was no reason why the human race should be extinct.

Um, honey, I think you got that one backwards.

English colonization of the Americas began in the late 17th century.  (And the student later said that the Civil War was about a hundred and fifty years later, so s/he meant it.)

That first Thanksgiving thing?  Must've happened on Iceland, or maybe in Ireland.  I always knew my ancestors had no sense of direction.

For the most part, the institution of slavery was wholly about economics.

Glad we cleared that up.

The first English colonists came to America to escape the enslaving policies of Catholicism and the Pope.

Because we all know that the Pope governed England with an iron fist in 1607.
 

amused, life

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