BIGGEST

LIES IN
HISTORY
 THE THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY COMMEMORATES
A TRAGEDY
The night before the Indians were to celebrate their annual Green
 
Corn Festival which is alike to the Thanksgiving celebration, they
were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries while they
slept and ordered to come outside. The ones who came out were
brutally killed, those who refused to come outside were burned
alive, many of them women and children.
The Governor of the Bay Colony, William Newell, proclaimed:
“From that day forth, shall be a day of celebration and thanks
giving for subduing the Pequots.” Less the kind of thankfulness
story we read about and more the brutal and bloody reality.
One other common misconception is that the Pilgrims extended an
invitation to the Native Americans for helping them reap the
harvest. The truth of how they all ended up feasting together is
unknown
ROSA PARKS WAS NOT SITTING IN THE ‘WHITES ONLY’ PART
OF THE BUS
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and
social protest campaign against the  racial segregation on
the public transit system. Racial segregation is the
separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in
daily life.
It was believed that Rosa Parks was sitting in the ‘whites
only’ section of the bus but it was confirmed that that Ms.
Parks was actually sitting in the first row of the middle
section for African Americans—the “colored” section.
But when more passengers boarded, the bus became
packed and a white man was left standing. The driver then
demanded Parks and three other African American
passengers move so this man could take their seats. As the
story goes, Rosa wouldn’t stand for it.
EINSTEIN NEVER FAILED
MATH
It’s one of those stories that people with bad grades love
to tell. A Princeton University team led by Dr. John
Stachel prepared to publish Einstein's papers. The group
found evidence that Einstein was a kid genius who had
conquered college-level physics by age 11 and was fluent
in Latin and Greek. Dr. Stachel also found what he
thought was the source of the Einstein math-myth. Dr.
Stachel told the New York Times that when Einstein was
16 and studying in Switzerland, he received grades of "1"
in math on two straight report cards. On a scale of 1 to 6,
"1" was the best. But then the school switched its system
so that a "6" was the top grade given. At that point,
Einstein got a "6," which made it look like he was
suddenly flunking math. He wasn't — he was still getting
the equivalent of an A.
 THOMAS EDISON DID NOT INVENT THE LIGHT
BULB
• Edison had a record number of prototypes—1,093, to be exact—and the vast majority of
them weren’t his own inventions. He was just a guy smart enough to find real inventors and
steal their ideas before they could take the credit. Edison got the patent for the light bulb in
1880, but it’s true father was Warren de la Rue, a British astronomer and chemist, who
created the first light bulb forty years earlier.
• Edison gets sole credit because he was great at telling people he invented the lightbulb and
getting publicity. And the bulb is just one of the questionable inventions of Edison's career.
• The most unbelievable story about Edison involves the invention of motion pictures. Many
people regard him as the father of motion pictures. However, there is a fairly solid argument
that Louis Le Prince, a French inventor, created working motion pictures before Edison.
• In 1890, Le Prince was taking a trip to reveal his invention in England and then would sail to
America to exhibit it. He got on a train on September 13, 1890, and nobody ever saw him
again. His luggage vanished as well. Le Prince’s family continued with the invention.
Unfortunately, in 1892, two years after testifying in a lawsuit against Thomas Edison,
someone shot and killed the son in Fire Island, New York.
   NAZI PROPAGANDA
• By the time Nazism arose in Germany in the •
To accomplish this, Adolf Hitler and his minister
1930s, anti-Semitism was nothing new. The of propaganda launched a massive campaign to
Jewish people had suffered a long history of convince the German people that the Jews were their
prejudice and persecution. Like never before, enemies. Having taken over the press, they spread
anti-Semitism was manifested in a policy known lies blaming Jews for all of Germany's problems,
as "the Final Solution," which sought to eliminateincluding the loss of World War I. One outrageous
Jews from the face of the Earth. lie dating back to the Middle Ages claimed that Jews
engaged in the killings of Christian children and
• Most of the German acts in WWII were actually
used their blood in the bread. Using Jews as the
the acts of the men running the military scapegoat, Hitler orchestrated what they called "the
operations, including Herman Goering and. Hitler big lie." This theory states that no matter how big the
had completely insane ideas that he needed to be lie is, people will believe it if you repeat it enough.
talked out of, like invading neutral Switzerland.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS’ DISCOVERY OF
AMERICA
Humans have lived in America for at least 15,000 years. By the time
Columbus arrived, the Americas were populated by hundreds of small
nations and several empires such as the Inca in Peru and the Aztecs in
Mexico.
What Columbus "discovered" was the Bahamas archipelago and then
the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the
Dominican Republic. On his later voyages he went farther south, to
Central and South America. He never got close to what is now called
the United States.
He became the first European in recorded history to
successfully conquer a small part of South America and then establish
a trade route for the transportation of slaves and goods. In other
words, Christopher Columbus didn't discover America; he monetized
it.
The voyage of 1492 was still a dangerous passage into uncharted
territories, but Christopher Columbus was neither the first European
to reach America nor the first to establish a settlement there.