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From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: History of the World request + examples
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 11:41:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 11:41:44 1985
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Some time ago on net.jokes, someone posted a "History of the World"
which was a continuous narrative put together by a history teacher
from quotes from papers/tests done by his/her students.  If anyone
out there has a copy of this, could you mail it to me?  Thanks.

The quotes were along the lines of things such as:

    The winter of 1620 was hard one for the settlers.  Many people
  died, many babies were born.  Captain John Smith was responsible
  for all this.

    Wolsey saved his life by dying on the way from York to London.

    A lot of Englishmen were shut up in the Black Hole of Calcutta
  with one small widow.  Only four got out alive.

    Queen Victoria was the longest queen on the throne.

    Benjamin Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

    Lincoln was shot by one of the actors in a moving picture show.

    In the reign of George the Third people were beginning to think
  more about farming.  A plain farmer named Bakewell taught the people
  how to improve the breeds of sheep so that many more legs of mutton
  could be got off a sheep than ever before.  As there was more meat
  there were more people to eat it, and the population became a great
  deal larger.

    The Pope declared Luther's writings to be hereditary.

    Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling from
  Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.
-- 
Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 1A4

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