Stuff The History Books Never Told You

[Hellion]

This was Texas City in 1947 after two ships carrying 8400 tons of amonium nitrite,caught fire and exploded,it was heard over 100 miles away,the History Channel had an episode of this on a show called "Wrath Of God" considering this was a manmade disaster.they show actual explosions and aftermath,which really surprised me that back then someone had a movie cammera rolling.

This is a pic of the Monsanto Chemical Corp after the first explosion.

You can Find this info on google,just type "Texas City Disaster of 1947"

Another thing never listed was Russia detonated the largest H-Bomb ever which equaled to 52-58 megatons(not really sure which number is right)

The History Channel Rocks!!

Anyone else have anything that was never printed in the history books?

[TrixieGothGirl]

I'll tell ya one thing that I didn't learn in any history book: the Korean War. I didn't know that that happened til I started watching M*A*S*H. I guess it wasn't called the forgotten war for nothing. Not even my high school history books had anything in it about the Korean War.

[EAF (1)]

well that's like did you guys hear about the geography problem that is now arising? A possible 8 story temple in the ocean, but tombs above the water site near the most western island of japan date back 10,000 years or more. They are sofisticated enough to have had to have a more advanced human race than originaly thought...many historians are debunking the idea of anything important being under the water, then again we found the lost city of Troy, the one city in the desert, and so why could one not be under water? The scary thing though is that if there was a city there, then the flooding and stuff they say could come from global warming is possible and could 'cause a massive flood overnight to all coastlines.

(yes this is what they believe is the lost city of atlantis)

I saw it on discovery channel so that is why i do not remember it all...XD

I just found it interesting is all...

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I've read about that. It's beleived to be a teraformed structure. Thati s, it was a already there and was then altered by man into a finnished shape. it dates from the last ice age, when the seas were far lower than they are now. Ofcourse it would be underwater now.. the world isn't half covered with ice anymore. There are simular sturctures of the coast of Cuba and India. There are a few people that thinkt hat are completly man made, but.. it's very hard to tell who is right as they are under so much water.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

I'll tell ya one thing that I didn't learn in any history book: the Korean War. I didn't know that that happened til I started watching M*A*S*H. I guess it wasn't called the forgotten war for nothing. Not even my high school history books had anything in it about the Korean War.

If you are interrested in the Korean war, check out In Mortal Combat by Toland. Try to deprogram everything that Alan Alda put in your head!

As for 10,000 year old structures, read the indian stories in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata about the apocolyptic war that took place 24,000 years ago. it was oral tradition for several thousand years and written down a few thousand years ago. They seem to be convinced that the earth had a huge population that was highly advanced which fell back into the stone age after a huge war.

http://www.nasca.org.uk/Ancient_Nuc__War/a...t_nuc__war.html

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/ourpast.htm

even "the Truth" (russian national newspaper hahahahah) has an article on it:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/13920_stones.html

Im not saying I believe it... but I do think its slightly more likely than the earth being created in 7 days and it is only 4000 years old.

[Head Wreck]

dont forget the history cannel gets a lot of things blatantly wrong

[Vater Araignee]

dont forget the history cannel gets a lot of things blatantly wrong

I thought that needed a quote.

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Don't forget that Euros invented the blast furnace and built the first metal tower.

Just totally ignore the fact the china beat them to the punch by thousands of years.

He who has the power writes history.