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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:50:35 EDT
Quotes that weren't quite right.................
Napoleon, Battle of Waterloo, 1815
"I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers, we
will settle the matter by lunch time."
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Gen. George Custer, Little Big Horn, 1876
"I guess we'll get through with them in a day."
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Dr. Dionysus Lardener, 1845
"Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to
breathe, would die of asphyxiation."
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William Thomson, Royal Society, 1890
"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."
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Popular Mechanics, 1949, Computers
"While a calculator now is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30
tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and only weigh 1
1/2 tons
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