5 Famous People You Won’t Believe Didn’t Exist
5 Famous People You Wont Believe Didnt Exist
By: Kelly Stone May 06, 2013 Cracked.com
Have you ever heard a speaker or boss quote some profound saying from Sun Tzu's The Art of War? Did you know there's a good chance that the wise philosopher who wrote that book never actually existed?
He's hardly alone -- lots of figures from history and pop culture are the product of either some marketing campaign or just bad record keeping.
Either way, centuries from now, people will probably still think that at one time there was a person named ...
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I learned touch-typing in high school, and have to admit that I thought Mavis Beacon was a real person.
I thought that Tokyo Rose was real. Dang!
At least we know that Hanoi Jane was real.
That's REALLY interesting, Buzz! Thanks for the article!
I can add one more to the list-- Merlin. Historians now think that Merlin was the name given to several people who had studied and knew things that many regular people didn't... One person named Merlin may have existed, but all the stories were about the achievements of several people. Interesting, isn't it?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought that King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were fictional, and that would include Merlin.
No, there really was a King Arthur-- the legends that were written 2 centuries after him, were about a real king. They have evidence of the battles he fought with the Saxons, and archaeological evidence that Camelot, (Caer Camel), really did exist.
As more and more archaeological digs are made, they keep finding things that match many of the facts behind the legends... Consensus at this time, is that he was a real king-- that briefly united the fiefdoms to fight off the Saxons.
As the late Paul Harvey used to say, "And here's the rest of the story". I think that before passing judgment on the Tokyo Rose issue, this should be read:
Do you think they might find out that Robin Hood was real as well?
I don't know, but it surely would be neat, if it was!
They are doing so many digs in England now-- what a wonderful place to live and be able to visit those sites!
It's not just in England. There have been incredible recent finds during my lifetime in other countries such as Israel, and right here in China as well, where the history is many thousands of years old. I'm thinking of things like the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Terra Cotta Warriors.
My brother's best friend when he was young was Roy Crocker. Maybe his mother was called Betty.