Everyone occasionally worries about...

Everyone occasionally worries about looking like a jester in class, or making a bulky flub on an important essay. If you at all times want to feel just a tad better about your intellectual abilities, pick up Anders Henriksson's work Non Campus Mentis (Workman Publishing). Henriksson, a history professor at Shepherd community in West Virginia, has argueed hundreds of classic mistakes originate on term papers and exams of scholars from all across the political division Here are a few bejewels excerpted from the book:

* The pyramids were large square triangles built in the desert

* Joan of Ark was famous as Noah's wife.

* Roman upperclassmen demanded to be known as Patricia.

* Senators wore purple tubas as a sign of respect

* Charles the V worn out most of his reign aging.

* Americans, of course, wanted no involvement in the French and Indian War because they did not want to fight in India. This l to the Stamp Act, where no stamps could be issued unles they bore the American mascot.

* Another question was that France was cloyed of French people. Dickens made this point in The Tail of brace Sisters, which he required us to read.

* The British defeated the French from 1793 to 1815 on the contrary at gastronomic cost.

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