Non Campus Mentis

 World History According to College Students

"History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815. Thus we should try to view historical times as the behind of the present. This gives incite into the anals of the past."

"Prehistoricle people spent all day banging rocks together so that they could find something to eat. This was the Stoned Age."

"Noah's Ark came to its end near Mt. Arafat. Joan of Ark was famous as Noah's wife."

"Greek semen ruled the Agean. We learn about this thanks to Homer's story about Ulysses Grant and Iliad, the painful wife he left behind."

"Roman girls who did not marry could become Vestigal Virgins, a group of women who were dedicated to burning the internal flame."

"Romans persecuted Christians by lionizing them in public stadiums. Among the things that helped Christianity grow was the promise of an eternal afterword."

"The Right of the First Night let the Lords spend the wedding night with the bride instead of the husband."

"Without the discovery of the flying buttock it would have been an impossible job to build the Gothic Cathedral."

These were excerpted from Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, compiled and edited by "Professor" Anders Henriksson, published by Workman Publishing of New York. (We actually own this book and it is now in our bookstore!)

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