THE CATCH HISTORY · 13 SHORTSHistory
The Catch History
Viral history claims and forgotten stories, checked against the primary sources: archives, records, official documents. Every short gets a page: the claim, what the source says, the numbers with full citations, and the catch.
FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech Almost Didn't Say "Infamy"
Germany Secretly Offered Mexico Three U.S. States in 1917
Washington crossed the Delaware. The rest of his plan unraveled.
Gavrilo Princip, the wrong turn that started World War One
Route 66 Turns 100, But It Was Almost Route 60
53 Minutes Before Pearl Harbor: The Radar Warning They Ignored
Henry Gunther, killed at 10:59 a.m. on 11 November 1918
The real first Thanksgiving — the letter that names deer, not turkey
Harald Jäger, the guard who opened the Berlin Wall
The Lost Roman Legion (Legio IX Hispana) — marched into Scotland and vanished? Not according to the record.
Irena Sendler, the woman who smuggled children out of the Warsaw Ghetto
Florence Green, the last known veteran of the First World War
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person certified as surviving both atomic bombsNo posts match.
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