Welcome to History in Action!!!

Welcome to history in action. This blog is dedicated to showing that history is as exciting as any shoot ‘em Robocop, Lethal Weapon type movie. History is almost always stranger and weirder than any “Stephan King” fiction. For example did you know:

• Abraham Lincoln never went to college, nor did he know how to read, write, or count without the aid of an abacus!
• Until 1904 the United States Census counted farm cows as part of voting district populations!!
• William Shakespeare was not the author of his famous plays.  Most historians agree they were written by a ten year old Irish child by the name of Ruffus Willmingham!!!
• “Robots” in one form or another have existed for thousands of years.  The Greeks and Romans had crank powered “automons” long before Apple Computer was making its expensive “Ipods”
• “Uncle Sam” was in fact a real man. He fought in many decisive Revolutionary War battles.

These are just some of the topics I’ll be tackling.  History is a lot older than any person (at least living ones!) and a lot stranger. So take a journey with me through a forest of the weird, the amazing, and the beautiful world that is history. T hese aren’t things you’ll find in your average school text book. Stay tuned….to your computer!!!