Throughout history, famous people have been often misquoted and their misquotes have been the words generations have lived by. This can have happened for a variety of reasons: some originals quotes may frankly have been – downright clumsy. Others don’t seem to match the style of language expected from a person. Some other times, the misquotes were attributed to a particular person simply for propaganda reasons! [Read more…]
This Isn’t Your Typical G.I. Joe – Action Figures of Real People
As the holiday season approaches, you might have some children in your life who are asking for Barbies, or Disney Princesses, or Transformers, or Star Wars action figures. Instead of supporting an interest in Barbie (whose physique defies all natural laws), or the princesses (who set feminism back about a gazillion years), or in a franchise that gets lamer and lamer by the moment (I blame it on Jar Jar) why not buy that special someone a historical, literary, or real-life-celebrating action figure instead? [Read more…]