Fact Stranger Than Fiction
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
No doubt, some ivy league university is teaching that that is an urban legend from 1826. Because they weren’t there.
Almost anything to do with Joan of Arc or the Titanic. And I’ve always smiled at the observation that Tolkien died in 1973. Flip the numbers and it’s fun to see why.
I like these history stories which you provide to us, Donald.
I saw this comment on X.
“Mammoths were still walking around when they were building the pyramids.”
JFK:
Yes, there is documentation (carbon dating) of a relict population of mammoths on Siberian islands like Novaya Zemlya as late as 1200-1400 BC. The pyramids of the Third Dynasty were finished 1000 years earlier.
One of mine: the phrase “abracadabra” appeared in writing for the first time when Emperor Alexander Severus (222-235) asked his court magician for a headache cure. Whether the incarnation worked is not recorded.
Jeffery Epstein killed himself mere minutes after all the guards fell asleep and the surveillance cameras all malfunctioned. Shocking facts!
Here’s mine;
Joe Biden, so called President of the United States, saved the country from the threat of CornPop.
All dead, he said? Actually, Charles Carroll was the last to die. Whoever made this film should have done better research.
Adams was likely referring to the Committee that drafted the Declaration. Carroll, the only other survivor, besides Jefferson and Adams, of all the Signers, lived to be 95 and died on November 14, 1832.