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When i was little I saw old movies in black and white,and though in the time those movies were made real life was acually black and white
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For the first 8 years of my life I thought that old photographs were Black and White because history was.
When I was much younger my family visited Monticello on a trip to Virgina. This was way before I learned any American history in school. Anyways, I distinctly remember that during the guided tour I kept insisting to my parents that Thomas Jefferson was just upstairs asleep. I have no idea why I was so convinced he was still around... I guess I hadn't had any experience with death yet. I was POSITIVE that he was in the house and just didn't want to see us (forget trying to make me understand he would be hundreds of years old). I guess I just assumed that since it was house someone lived there. The concept of a museum celebrating an important figure in American History was lost on me. A few years later we went to the Hermitage. Seeing Andrew Jackson impersonator walking around the grounds there didn't help matters much either.
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Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.
I used to believe that Davey Crockett was a wonderful, gentle frontiersman, just like they portrayed him on the Wonderful World of Disney. I recently found out that he killed MANY Indians! Interesting how Disney left that part out. I don't care for Davey Crockett anymore. Maybe I was confused because Fess Parker also played Daniel Boone.
My parents didn't want me playing with toy soldiers from WWII, so they bought me sets of knights. These were the Britains Limited figures - a wide variety of armor types, so not all of them had Crusader tabards. My logic in playing Knights In Armor was that the ones with the crosses on their tabards were physically stronger.
Years later, I got into medieval history, and found out that was one of the folk beliefs in the actual Crusader armies.
Whenever I used to hear the term "guerilla warfare" on tv, I thought that "gorillas" were starting fights with humans. I grew up during the time when "Planet of the Apes" was a popular new show.
At the end of the street where i lived in Antwerp, there is a monument of worldwar 1. It shows 4 statue's of naked and serious looking men, only wearing an army helmet (and a sword in front of them to cover up their ...).
I asked my mother what this monument was about and she said it was made for all the people who died in the first worldwar. Of course i was surprised.... That they took the effort of making a large monument for a war where only 4 guys were killed.
In my history class, I was taught that the Native Americans smoked fish. My parents were both smokers, so I had a clear image in my head of people putting a fish tail in their mouth and lighting up the head.
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I used to think that a war was just one day of shooting, and everything was done after that. I was surprised when my dad told me some wars could span years.
I was 8 in 1968 when we got our first color tv and my dad bought a polaroid camera that took color pictures. I felt so sorry for my mom and dad because when they were kids the whole world was black and white! Proof positive was in all those photos they kept in the album.
When I was about six I heard the phrase Guerilla Warfare on the news, for a while, I believed that we should not have given guerillas guns, as they were already fighting to takeover the world like on the TV series Planet of the Apes, which I used to watch. Needless to say, my mother put me straight after a few months of believing this.
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When I was younger I thought that the Gulf War was being fought in the US near the Gulf of Mexico. I thought this for a really really long time.
I used to believe when I was younger that it was ridiculous to bring gorillas to other continents to fight human wars for them, because I thought guerrilla warfare involved African gorillas. I was also worried it would make gorillas go extinct.
When I was young, somebody said that love is stronger than a war. At that time, my country was in a war and I was scared, so I thought if I find a girlfriend, no one will be able to kill us, as long as we are kissing each other, because LOVE IS STRONGER THAN A WAR!
I used to believe that in Texas and California and Idaho they still had slavery, becuase my 1st grade teacher had told us that slavery didn't exist anymore, except fro in some "very far away places." Those were the farthest-away places I could think of then. So funny!
After looking at my grandma's old photos, I firmly believed that the world used to be black and white. I thought that one day, a butterfly came along and spread colour through the world. I was about ten when my nan realised why i always refered to 'the black and white days' and explained to me that it was simply cameras that had been black and white...
I used to believe that the only colors in the world were black and white, until God came and spread a big rainbnow over the whole world and everything was colored.
I used to think that when you fought in a war there was a fence between the two armies. i found myself contimplating quite often whether it was considered "cheating" if someone crossed the fence to the enemy's side. kind of like in dodgeball. this is also why i thought another word for sword fights is called "fencing". lmao.
Back when the Iraq war first started, I thought that Iraq was where Canada is!
Haha, xD