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"Don't believe everything you see on the History Channel." Abraham Lincoln
3 December 2014
The intro with the Abraham Lincoln quote really sets the tone for the validity of the entire show. I won't go too deep into the rest of the show to avoid spoilers, but this is hucksterism at its best! Here's the actual quote from Abraham Lincoln in context where he is actually talking about how cool it was that mammoths and mastodons used to roam the area following a trip past Niagara Falls: "But still there is more. It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus first sought this continent; when Christ suffered on the cross; when Moses led Israel through the Red-Sea; nay, even, when Adam first came from the hand of his Maker; then as now, Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. Contemporary with the whole race of men, and older than the first man, Niagara is strong, and fresh today as ten thousand years ago. The Mammoth and Mastadon - now so long dead, that fragments of their monstrous bones, alone testify, that they ever lived, have gazed on Niagara. In that long, long time, never still for a single moment. Never dried, never froze, never slept, never rested,"
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