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A History of the World...
...according to students.
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all
wrote in hydraulics.
They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by
Camelot.
The climate of the Sarah is such that the
inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In
the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve
were created from an apple tree.
One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my
brother's son?"
3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where
they made unleavened bread which is bread made without
any ingredients.
Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten
commandments. He died before he ever reached
Canada.
4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred
porcupines.
5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and
without them we wouldn't have history.
The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female
moth.
6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by
another man of that name.
7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around
giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died
from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his
career suffered a dramatic decline.
8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped,
hurled the biscuits,and threw the java.
9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks.
History calls peopleRomans because they never stayed
in one place for very long.
10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the
battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him
because they thought he was going to be made
king.
Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his
subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.
Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be
hanged twice for the same offense.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The
greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer who
wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow
through an apple while standing on his son's head.
15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen
she was a success.
When she exposed herself before her troops they
all shouted "hurrah."
16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.
Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible.
Another important invention was the circulation of
blood.
Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because
he invented cigarettes and started smoking.
And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with
a 100 foot clipper.
17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William
Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly
on his birthday. He never made much money and is
famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,
comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic
pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a
heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by
Juliet.
18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel
Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author
was John Milton.Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his
wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher
Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America
while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were
called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this
was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was
a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many
babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible
for all this.
21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the
English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists
would send their parcels through the post without
stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no
longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the
original 13 states formed the Contented Congress.
Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were
two singers of the declaration of Independence.
Franklin discovered
electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and
declared,
"A horse divided against itself cannot stand.".
Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was
adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the
constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare
arms.
23. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest
Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he
was born in a log cabin which he built with his own
hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the
Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14,
1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his
seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.
The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a
supposedly insane actor.
This ruined Booth's career.
24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a
reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and
also wrote a book called Candy.
25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is
chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are
falling off the trees.
26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical
compositions and had a large number of children. In
between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept
up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present.
Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so
was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and
half English. He was very large.
27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He
was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in
the forest even when everyone was calling for him.
Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it
happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted
an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was
a baroness, she couldn't have any children.
29. The sun never set on the British Empire because
the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in
the West.
30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a
thorn for 63 years. |