On the TV news I was used to them showing a photo of a person's face in the corner of the screen with the name of that person underneath. So one day they showed Ayatollah Khomeini, with "IRAN" underneath, and I thought Iran was his name.

Brandon Campbell

I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.

Ginger

when I was very small Margaret Thatcher was still prime minister of Britain, and I used to think that she and the queen were the same person.

Megan

i used to think that Nassar Hussein(the captain of the England cricket team) and Saddam Hussein were the same person.

Anon

i used to think that groucho marx and karl marx were brothers.

Anon

I was born in the late fifties and went to grade school in the early to mid sixties-

JFK was asassinated in 1963- Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy asassinated in 1968.

I used to believe that all US Presidents died by asassination.

Mark Burroughs

I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A Fat

Anon

As a child, I thought that President Ford and actor Harrison Ford were the same person. Upon seeing Harrison Ford's movie "Air Force One", I told my mother "You know, he does such a good job being president, he should become the real US president again".

Alison

I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.

END

i used to think that 'uncle sam' was a real person...who took all my parent's money!

julie

I was 7 during the first Quebec referendum (you know, the first time they were deciding if Quebec should separate from Canada?). My parents let me stay up late to watch the reuslts, and when the 'Non' side won, I jumped up and yelled "Yay! We get to stay in Canada!!"

Part of me thought that the whole province would physically separate and have bridges to the other provinces and the US as the only connecting points.

gerald626

When I was little I remember that my parents said the State of the Union would be on TV that night. We lived in Florida at the time, and I was really, really hoping we would win. I thought State of the Union was a title just like Man of the Year. We didn't win, did we?

anon

I used to believe the word "democrat" was a "bad" word since "crat" sounded like "crap" and we weren't allowed to say "crap".

Andrea Anderson

I used to believe that politicians actually ran (like in a race) for office.

m

When I was in kindergarten I saw a picture on the news of George Washington on a one dollar bill, and from that point on (until I said so in class) I believed George Washington was president of the United States.

Jacob

I used to think that Abraham Lincoln was the guy from the bible> During Church the priest asked who Abraham was and I said he was our president
a loooooooong time ago!!

Alex

Back when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK, my left-wing grandad used to say, "When Maggie Thatcher speaks, green slime runs down the walls!" From then on I'd always look very closely at the TV whenever they showed Parliament, looking for the slime. I also worried, especially when I couldn't see it in the House of Commons, that Maggie's devilish influence would bring green slime running down the walls of our house!

Daisy K