THE BIG LIE OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY

BIN LADEN was not the first to attack the U.S. in its own territory. The "merit" it is up to Pancho Villa, who in 1916 crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the city of Columbis in Texas, which killed seven people. The invasion lasted less than ten hours.

The three caravels WERE ONLY TWO OF COLON. The pint and the Niña. Because the third ship that participated in the discovery of America was a ship, other types of larger boats. Her name was Maria Galante, but Columbus renamed the Santa Maria.

THE WITCHES OF SALEM were not burned at the stake. But nobody thinks that the pardoned. Actually were hanged, which was the penalty that communities and Calvinist Protestants tended to dictate the cases of witchcraft.

NAPOLEON was not so short. In fact, average 1.68 cm., An acceptable height for his time, and even exceeded by 4 cm to the Duke of Wellington, his great enemy.

THE VIKINGS DO NOT wear a helmet with horns. It was an invention of the painter Gustav Malmström Swedish in the illustrations he did in 1820 for his epic poem Frithiof 's Saga. The purpose of these horns was unrealistic to portray the fierce warriors of the North and almost demonic beings.

LA GUERRA DE LOS CIEN AÑOS actually lasted 116 of 1337 to 1453, the year in which the kings of England and France (the countries in conflict) ended hostilities.

George Washington was not the first U.S. president When the American Revolution in 1714, a commission of elected Peyton Randolph, a provision for that post. After his resignation, eight as chairman in office until 1789, when they finally adopted the American constitution and held its first elections for the post, in which Washington was finally chosen.

WALT DISNEY DRAWING NOT KNOW, and never intended any of his famous characters. For many years it was said that Mickey Mouse had been created by, but now we know that was the work of cartoonist Ub exclusive Wickers who left Disney to share the responsibility to return a favor.

The October Revolution was in November. Actually (according to the current Gregorian calendar), commenced on November 7, when Lenin in Petrograd rose up against the government of Kerensky. What happens is that although Russia was governed by the so-called Julian calendar (obsolete in the rest of the western world since 1582). According to which corresponded to the date October 25.

Sherlock Holmes never said: Elementary dear Watson. In the novels of Conan Doyle's famous detective decides if the word "elementary", but never accompanied by the Fillers. The phrase, as we know, the script was written for a film starring Basil Rathbone in 1939.

VAN GOGH is not a short-ear, just a bit of the left lobe.

Marie Antoinette never made the infamous phrase: "If you do not have bread, eat cake," when a counselor told him that the hardships the people of Paris went. The historian Antonia Fraser has found that it is a Bulo: who said this was an outrageous courtesan, Madame de Montespan. This was picked Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions, written in 1768, exactly two years before that Marie Antoinette arrived in France.

THE PROGRESS OF WOMEN WAS FORMED BY MEN! Indeed, the rising price of bread in 1789 caused a popular uprising in Paris. 6,000 women armed with sickles and knives, marched in protest towards the palace of Versailles, led by Theroigne Mericourt. Although women do not actually reached the hundred, and the rest were men dressed in feminine clothes.

BRUCE LEE WAS NOT THE KING OF KARATE. In fact, I never practice this form of martial arts. Theirs was a different fighting style known as Jun Fan gung fu. Teaching Jeet Kune Do begins with a technical base. This basic technique is what Bruce taught for over 30 years to students, to what he called Jun Fan Gung Fu.

Joan of Arc was not French. The truth is that the heroine and saint born in Bar, a town in the Duchy of Lorraine who was then independently.

Driving on the right has not always been normal. In fact, the Roman empire was moved to the left, a habit that continued throughout Europe until the French Revolution. The new regime introduced by the rule of doing right, and Napoleon imposed on the rest of Europe, except England, Sweden and the countries that could not conquer.

ARTURO NEVER WAS KING. In fact, it was a Roman general named Lucius Artorius Casto, appointed to defend Berta prefect of the barbarians.

There was never VIRGIN 11000. On a tombstone of a church in Cologne this chiseled legend maidens 11,000 killed by the Huns of Attila in 449 years. Poncela Jardiel already been questioned in one of his works that the real figure was so high virgin and he was right, because today we know that only eleven were martyred youth to death by the barbarians.

ROBIN HOOD WAS NOT GIVE A BANDIDO or stole from the rich to give to the poor. It was actually a name called Robert Hood, who rebelled against King Richard II (and not against Juan Sin Tierra) for not paying taxes.

NEVER Adam and Eve ate an apple. We know it is only a myth, but even so, in Genesis does not mention that this was the result, only be read: but the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden God said not eat it. The myth of the apple is probably due to the Renaissance painters.

Marlon Brando did not won the Oscar for The Godfather (1972). But he sent in his place to pick up a false india (actually disguised as a Mexican), who made a plea for indigenous rights.

IF MOUNTAIN DONT GO TO Mohammed, Mohammed will go to Mountain? This proverb does not belong to any sacred text of Islam. It is part of a parable invented by the British philosopher Francis Bacon.

CUTTING hair was not natural habit of the red skins. The copy of the French, who demanded their mercenaries present to the scalp of each Indian killed in order to collect the reward.

"And yet, it moves" There is no evidence that Galileo actually mutter that phrase to be forced to recant his scientific theories in 1633, after being tried by the Inquisition. Currently, the records believe that the writer and editor invented Turinese Giusepe Baretti in a fantasy book Biblioteca italiana (1757).

Al Capone hated spaghetti and, by extension, almost all varieties of Italian pasta. Recounted in his biography as the actor George Raft, specialized in gangster roles and whom Capone (big fan of his) invite to dinner once. And he was surprised with a food menu china!

JULIO CESAR NOT BORN caesarean. Historians believe not, because his mother died when he had already reached 30, at a time when women did not usually survive this operation. What is certain is that such intervention takes its name from a law passed by Caesar so that babies were taken from the wombs of their mothers if these died from the seventh month of gestation.