18 historical myths Bashny.Net

1. Eve ate the apple

Apple - fruit useful, although notorious as the forbidden fruit since Eve plucked him in the Garden of Eden with the tree of knowledge, and deprived us - their descendants - paradise. However, the attentive reader must have noticed that nowhere in the Bible are not the fruit of an apple was named. Of course, this could be an apple. In the same extent as mango, apricot or, or any other fruit. But the stigma received only an apple.

2. Newton's head fell yabloko


Again apples - this is the unfortunate fruit managed to fall on the head of Sir Isaac Newton and his inspiration for the invention of the law of universal gravitation. Cute fairy tale, but most likely, it's just a fairy tale. It was first publicly told Voltaire in his essay on Newton. The only person who spoke to this publication Voltaire, Newton had a sister, Catherine Conduit.

3. Walt Disney drew Mickey Mausa

It is believed that the most famous cartoon character - Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney painted by myself. But it is not. Mickey was drawn animator number 1 in the Disney studio Yubom Ayverksom (Ub Iwerks), who was famous for the fact that incredibly quickly drew. The first movie about Mickey (it took for him to draw 700 pictures per day) was set up in just two weeks. But later, when the sound Disney cartoons rehabilitated - it was his voice started talking Mickey Mouse.

4. Marie Antoinette said: Let them eat pirozhnye

In 1766 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of an event that supposedly happened 25 years earlier. When Marie Antoinette learned that in the French countryside people enough bread, she offered them to eat cake. The problem is that in those years, Mary was 11 years old and still living in his native Austria. Most likely these words spread by revolutionary propagandists, to show how far apart people and those who controlled them.

5. The Great Train Robbery was the first artistic filmom

The film was shot in 1903, but it was not the first feature film. Its duration - 10 minutes. The first feature film was the 100-minute Australian film «The Story of the Kelly Gang» shot for 3 years later. And movies like "The Great Train Robbery" was filmed a lot in the late 1890s.

6. Van Gogh cut off his uho

Impoverished the great painter Van Gogh (his entire life only sold one painting), shortly before committing suicide in a quarrel with his friend Gauguin, more successful in selling their works, cut off his ear, not all, but only a piece of the left lobe. It hurts, but not as bad as it might seem.

7. Salem burned vedm

In Salem (Massachusetts) in 1692 during the trial of witches were arrested 150 people, 31 people sentenced, 20 of them - deadly. Of these 31 people, not all were women, six of them - men. At the same time they are not burned at the stake - it is not scary witches, stoning them first, and then the body was hanged on a rope.

8. Napoleon was korotyshkoy

Many believe that the excessive ambitions of Napoleon are a kind of compensation for his small height. In fact, the growth of the Little Corporal was 5 feet 7 inches (168 cm) - higher than the average Frenchman of those years. So why is it so called? This nickname was the teaser for its small military rank. Napoleon became emperor, but the nickname remains the same.

9. Magellan made a world puteshestvie

Everyone knows about Magellan's two things: that he traveled around the world, and that during this trip, he was killed in the Philippines. One excludes the other. In fact, Magellan was exactly half way: the journey finished Juan Sebastian Elcano, his deputy.

10. Emperor Nero fiddled while burning ignited them Rim

This story is known to all 64 BC. e. Rome is burning and Nero played the fiddle. But this is impossible. Firstly, the violin was invented over 1,600 years. But even if the violin was, Nero could play it at a distance of only 30 miles from the burning of Rome, as in a fire, he was not in the Eternal City, and at his villa in the suburbs.

11. Captain Cook discovered Avstraliyu

Of course, the Australians do not even want to think so. Long before 1770, and first visited here Dutch Abel Tasman and Dirk Hartog, and an English pirate William Dampier. And this continent was discovered 50 000 years ago, its original inhabitants - the Australians. The only thing that Cook may be called "pioneer" in Australia, and that in quotes - because it is for the discovery of new land that later became the reason for the arrival of white settlers here.

12. Shakespeare himself wrote the story Gamleta

William Shakespeare is known as the greatest playwright in history. However, most of his plays were not his own creation - rather creative adaptations of short stories, tales and legends. The play "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", according to historians, was based on an ancient Scandinavian tradition.

13. America gained its independence July 4, 1776 goda

This is not true. Yes, America's Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence on that day. But the war of independence that was 7 years, and only 3 September 1783 finally signed a peace treaty between the United States and the English King George III.

14. Edison invented the electric lampochku

1093 patent: Edison - the great inventor. But most of his inventions made by unidentified members of his laboratory. And besides, in the four decades before the birth of the Edison Electric Light Humphrey Davy discovered one. His lamp could burn, only 12 hours, and Edison had only to find a suitable material for the filament, the lamp could burn constantly. Yes, achievement, but not the opening.

15. Columbus proved that the Earth - kruglaya

Based on the book by American author Irving Vashingona, it was. Everyone thought - the earth is flat, but Columbus convinced everyone else. In fact, from the 4th century BC. e. no one thought that the Earth is flat like a pancake. Columbus also could not prove that the Earth - round, as he himself did not believe it! He believed that the Earth has a pear-shaped. He had never been in America, and only accessible to the Bahamas, who just have a pear shape.

16. Gandhi freed Indiyu

It is the most famous leader of the Indian independence movement. He urged the country to renounce violence. He was 16 years old (in 1885), when it was formed the Indian National Congress. But without the participation of Gandhi, India would have achieved independence by other, more effective methods than non-resistance to violence and may even be earlier if it has taken the path indicated Netahi Chandra Bose.

17. Jesus was born 25 dekabrya

December 25 - Christmas. But there is no evidence either in the Bible or anywhere else was that Jesus was born on that day. But why did December 25 the birthday of Jesus? Maybe because in this day the Greeks celebrated the god Mitrosa born of a virgin, and at the same time it was the day the shepherd?

18. George Washington was the first president SSHA

We all know that George Washington was the first of 43 US presidents. And here and there! The first was Peyton Randolph - that it has chosen the revolutionary Congress. His first step was the creation of high office of the Continental Army to defend against British troops and the appointment to the post of Chief of the General Washington ...! Randolph was succeeded in 1781 by John Hanson, who sent a congratulatory letter to George Washington after his victory at the Battle of Yorktown and signed, "I, John Hancock, the president of America." A Washington became the first popularly elected president of the United States - but the fifteenth.

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