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Internet facts may be misleading
 
 
Frank Cotolo
November 17, 2016
 
I am very concerned about anyone growing up these days that may be learning about history by using their Internet machine websites. Lately, while researching for my many articles, blogs and speeches, I cut some corners and used my Internet machine to look up some facts. I am skeptical of what is called a fact on certain websites.
 
Here are some of the so-called facts that were presented to me on websites:
 
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, did not like the idea of his head being on a penny.
 
The country we know as Russia lost a letter of its name in a war. That letter was a capital P. So, leaders of the country capitalized the next letter in the name, kept the remaining letters and made that the name of the country.
 
Romulus and Remus began as a team in Vaudeville.
 
Comic books were originally only available in black and white but not by choice. When the first comic book was created, the color red was near extinction. It took decades to get enough red to use in a book of paneled cartoons.
 
The Great Lakes were once used primarily for generating power to the state of Michigan.
 
Native Americans never inhabited the area now known as Wyoming because the generation of Native Americans that first settled there were allergic to cactus and moved away.
 
King Edward VII never existed.
 
In ancient China, Chinese people sent their laundry out to be cleaned and pressed.
 
Johnathan Type invented the first machine that people used to print words and became popular for the "writer" that bore his name.
 
Ernest Hemingway shot an "m" out of his name while hunting.
 
Early in mankind, the ear could hear sounds as far as a thousand miles away.
 
King Edward VI never existed.
 
Hitler never invaded Poland because he thought the people were too stupid to rule.
 
No one knows why the bridge between England and New England was destroyed.
 
Hawaii is an island that was once a part of the continent of Africa but broke off after an earthquake and floated for centuries until it landed where we now locate it, in the Pacific Ocean.
 
The season of Summer was once called Redulko.
 
So, be very careful what you believe when you read so-called knowledgeable websites' materials.
 
Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.
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