Personalities
This page contains a selection of bloopers relating to historical personalities, gathered from a best-selling compilation by Viking Press published under the pseudonym of Alexander Abingdon in 1931. The selected extracts, edited and rearranged, are reproduced for readers in countries where the book is in the public domain, which, to the best of our knowledge, includes Australia (because more than 70 years have passed since the book's publication and because the so-called anonymous rule applies). For other countries, please check your local copyright laws.
Caesar, being completely bald, liked best of all priviledges the present of a wreath which he wore to cover up his top, as he found hair tonics unavailable, because they were invented centuries later
Charles the Bald died without a hair
Chopin was the King of Japan
Cleopatra died because she was bit by a wasp
King Henry the Eighth was the worst souvenir England ever had
Mackenzie was the first man to cross the Pacific on foot
Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday
Robert Louis Stevenson got married and went on his honeymoon. It was then he wrote Travels with a Donkey.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a little log cabin, which he helped his father to build
Thomas Cranmer was a college student who translated the Old Testament into the New One
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