the past

When I was 7 I went to Disney World. There is this show thing that is about American history and I remember one part in it about Abraham Lincoln. I remember him saying something about being black and white and that is why he wanted to free the slaves. (I think I misunderstood it.) It made since to me, because he was on the penny which was copper, (those of you who don't live in the U.S., all the other coins are silver), and in all of the illustrated history books I had seen, his skin looked tanner than all the other presidents in them. I still don't know what the guy in the show at Disney World was actually saying.

When I was little it was a common belief held by the kids in my neighbourhood that dinosaurs had lived a mere 100 years ago.

One Christmas, my Brownie troop went to a local rest home to sing carols for the residents. It turns out the day we went was also one of the residents' 100th birthday. One of the Brownie leaders introduced her to me this woman and told me that it was her 100th birthday. I was gob smacked! I immediately asked her what it was like to live with dinosaurs.

I used to believe that World War II had literally been fought all over the world. I also had no concept of how much time had passed since the end of that war and when I was born in 1981. I had images in my mind of the city I was born in still being in smoking ruins because of the war.

as a kid i used to belive that when mi grandma and grandpa were little kids all the world was black and withe even sun people things everythig, and with time people invent colors i think i was a kid that used to see too much black and withe movies

I used to believe that when 9/11 happened, the suicide bombers ran into the empire state building and that too had been destroyed. But in 2007, I went to New york and was surprized to find it still standing. Everyone started to laugh the second I asked, " I thought the empire state building was gone! "

I used to believe that Abraham Lincoln was the 2nd president of the United States.

I blame the school system, who only taught kindergarteners and first graders about two presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, no one in between.

I used to believe that in the 1960s' and 1970s', EVERYTHING was tie-dye and EVERYONE was a hippy.
Needless to say I'm only 11, so I did not grow up in those decades

I used to believe that before color television, the whole world was black and white

When I was younger, I thought that in a war, one army would go on one side and the other would go on the other side of the battlefield. They wouldn't move, just kneel and shoot their guns. The side with the most people alive at the end won.

Once when I was in first grade, I renacted the Civil War with pennies and they fought it like I thought they did.

When I was a child, elder people used to tell us tales like "dakdeer dimatoy dulki nabadye" means; long ear died and the land is in peace". we used to get scare of long ear if we stays long out side at night without our parents or some one older...they used to tell us that long ear use to steal cheeps and eat them...when we grow old we realized that long ear never existed. this tale was made of just to keep us close to our home or to scare us in order to sleep earlier at night...

I grew up in the '60's during the Vietnam War.
I can remember hearing television new stories about the "gorilla warfare" going on and could just imagine the sight of actual gorillas jumping out of trees onto the soldiers!

I used to believe that before I was born, the world was just in black and white. That was only because I saw pictures and films that were in black and white. I just assumed that color wasn't invented yet.

I was thought that when my mom was growing up, that she grew up in black and white due to olden day black and white movies

i actually asked her one day how it felt that she was living in a "colour world"

When I was little I thought that people saw in black and white before the advent of color TV. Once color TV was invented people began to see in color too.

When I was about five, I used to believe that 65 million years ago, not only did dinosaurs roam the earth, but dragons and monsters did as well. The asteroid killed the dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters, so that's why they weren't around anymore...

I used to think that, back in the 40s or whenever (before they had color TVs) that everything was in black and white - people, everything. Then I thought that everything just turned to color one day. Weird, huh?