Children's Versions of History:

The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and
in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th & 6th grade ages in
Ohio. Kids should rule the world, as it would be a laugh a minute for
us adults and therefore no time to war or argue.

Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all
wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of
the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere....
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 commandos. He died before he ever reached
Canada but the commandos made it.

Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was A
actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It sounds like
he was sort of busy too.

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we
wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young
female moth.

Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock,
which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a
Dramatic decline.

In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits,
and threw the java. The games were messier then, than they show on TV
now.

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 “Same to you, Brutus.”

Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for
reasons I don’t really understand. The English and French still have
problems.

Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen,” As a queen she was a success.
When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah!”
and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.

Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented
Cigarettes and started smoking.

Sir Frances Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which
was very dangerous to all his men.

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.

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. Since then no one ever found it.

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 backward and also declared, “A horse divided against
itself cannot stand.” He was a naturalist for sure. Frianklin died in
1790 and is still dead.

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.

Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he
wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took long
walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven
expired in 1827 and later died for this.

The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and
inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing
by machine. Then invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers
to spring up.

Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a
hundred men.

Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits, but I don’t know why.

Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It
was very long, people got upset about it, and had trials to see if it
was really true. He sort of said God’s days were not just 24 hours,
but without watches who knew anyhow? I don’t get it.

Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what she
did. Other women have become scientists since her but they didn’t get
to find radios because they were already taken.