Tales I Never Told!

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Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! Ratings and Reviews 0 0 star ratings 0 reviews. Overall rating No ratings yet 0. May 14, Liz rated it it was amazing. Did you know that the greatest baseball player of all time never played in the major leagues? Josh Gibson hit more than home runs in his career, including the longest home run ever hit in Yankee Stadium — longer than anything Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, or anyone else ever hit — but he never played in the majors, because, as a black American in the s and 40s, he was ineligible.

He died a broken-hearted man because of it. Do you suppose the Dutch are broken-hearted over a deal they made in the Did you know that the greatest baseball player of all time never played in the major leagues? Do you suppose the Dutch are broken-hearted over a deal they made in the s? After years of fighting, the Dutch signed over the island of Manhattan in North America when the British agreed they controlled Run.

Here, I learned about Israel Bissell, who rode, like Paul Revere, to warn the colonists that the British had attacked the colonists. This is what we were taught in elementary school. The more I read of history, the more I want to read, and understand, all sides of the events that make up the pageant of life on earth. Nov 30, Kate Lawrence rated it really liked it Shelves: This appealing collection of little known and surprising occurrences in history and scientific discovery is an easy read.

You can dip into it anywhere, as each incident is separately told and covers only two pages. The author assures us that all stories have been carefully researched so as to eliminate urban legends. Some of them are "what if" moments in history, where if one little thing had been different, a devastating event could have been prevented.

For example, if a word in the Japanese go This appealing collection of little known and surprising occurrences in history and scientific discovery is an easy read. For example, if a word in the Japanese government's statement about surrender had not been mistranslated, President Truman would have understood that the Japanese were in fact inclined to accept the surrender terms in the Potsdam Declaration but needed some time to clarify their position. As it was, with the mistranslation, Truman thought they were rejecting the terms of surrender, and he went ahead and ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Some of the stories fall more in the "quirky" category, such as the fact that George Washington, although the first president elected under the U. Constitution, was not first when you realize that the country was brought into being when all 13 colonies had earlier ratified the Articles of Confederation. Several men held the office in those intervening years, Washington being actually our eighth president.

And how about the completely accidental invention of the microwave oven? The earliest model, called the Radarange, weighed lbs. Skeptics said it would never catch on. Dec 25, Dave rated it really liked it Shelves: This was a very fun book to read - doesn't take long - and is full of so many interesting facts and stories.

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A couple of my favorites: He had vessels and commanded 28, men, as they explored as far as the southern tip of Africa. Less than 30 years later, the Chinese emperor decided on an isolationist policy, and that was the end of that.

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Can you imagine how different our wor This was a very fun book to read - doesn't take long - and is full of so many interesting facts and stories. Can you imagine how different our world would be if the Chinese came to the Americas years before the Spanish and Portuguese? He forced college football to open up the game players died that season by changing the rules to allow the forward pass!

A mis-translation of a Japanese official's comment about surrender terms resulted in the use of the atomic bomb in WWII.

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The official meant to withhold comment about the surrender terms until they were received through official channels, and used the word "mokusatsu" which has two meanings - "no comment" - and "ignore". The Japanese News Agency reported it as "ignore" and so Truman decided he had no choice but to drop the bombs. Mar 22, Chris rated it really liked it Shelves: All of us Ryghs enjoyed reading these stories.

Some fascinating stories including: Joshua Lionel Cowen invented the flashlight but signed over the rights to Conrad Hubert who created the Everready Company. Cowen went on to invent model trains. Dixie was composed by a staunch Union s , minute-long essays on historical oddities. Dixie was composed by a staunch Union supporter, Daniel Decatur Emmett.

First mechanical computer invented by Charles Babbage in Hsi Kai, the most successful pirate of all time, was a Chinese woman. She commanded 50K men and women and more than a thousand ships. In fact there were seven presidents elected under the Articles of Confederation. The Scopes Trial was actually all a PR ploy. Scopes was in on the deal and even part of the organizational meeting at Robinson's drugstore in Dayton, OH. He borrowed the name James Bond from a bird-watching book written by an ornithologist by the same name.

In an OSS team parachuted into the jungles of Asia. They saved a man names Nguyen Ai Quoc who later asked for support and direction.

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Sep 12, Emmannuel rated it it was amazing Shelves: Can't lie, after reading this, I have nothing but respect for Ibn Battuta and the man who practically started and ended the Revolutionary War in his living room. I mean, this book was what got me into World History. Sep 05, Tracey rated it liked it Recommends it for: For example, the motorcade of Archduke Ferdinand had taken a wrong turn and was stopped to check the directions when Gavrilo Princip shot him and his wife; who, coinci A pass-along from my mom, I browsed through The Greatest Stories Never Told: For example, the motorcade of Archduke Ferdinand had taken a wrong turn and was stopped to check the directions when Gavrilo Princip shot him and his wife; who, coincidentally, were celebrating their 14th wedding anniversary.

Technological advances are discussed as well; the electricity battle between Edison's DC and Westinghouse's AC formats, which involved the first capital punishment by electrocution. Citations are provided for each article at the back of the book. It's definitely a book for dabblers, but it might provoke further reading into a given subject.

Recommended to history fans looking for a quick fix on some obscure topics. Jan 31, Chris rated it really liked it Shelves: I got this a few years ago from my dad, and picked it up again recently while hunting for CELTA material. I had an assignment to do, wherein we had to find a piece of "authentic material" around which I was to write a lesson. My original idea was to use a comic book, but that proved tricky, so I looked elsewhere. The book is basically a collection of very short, inter I got this a few years ago from my dad, and picked it up again recently while hunting for CELTA material.

The book is basically a collection of very short, interesting historical stories, most of which are stories that people don't usually know. The great Chinese pirate Hsi Kai who was the unarguable queen of the seas. Based on a combination of knowing what patents the character eventually claimed, as well as by comparing the narrative timeline to the date the book was written, I believe this is the story of Traugott Sandmeyer. Unfortunately, I can't find any evidence to support that he spent time in New York. Worth a read, by the way. Gemma Fasheun marked it as to-read Aug 21, Sharon marked it as to-read Jun 13, Gwynbleidd marked it as to-read Nov 28, Osiris Oliphant marked it as to-read Sep 09, Cambria marked it as to-read Nov 11, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

William Josephus Robinson 8 December — 6 January was an American physician, sexologist and birth control advocate. Robinson was active in the birth control movement in the United States. He was "the first American physician to demand that co William Josephus Robinson 8 December — 6 January was an American physician, sexologist and birth control advocate.

He was "the first American physician to demand that contraceptive knowledge be taught to medical students and [