# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2191
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43806 "2016-05-23T12:13:53Z")
Notable historians 1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People) 2. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”) 3. Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War) 4. Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”) 5. Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc. 6. William H. McNeill 7. Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him. 8. Herodotus, author of “The Histories” about the Greco-Persian Wars, known as “the Father of History”. 9. Arnold J. Toynbee, author of the 12-volume _A Study of History_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43807 "2016-05-23T13:00:22Z")
]Notable historians 1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People) 2. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”) 3. Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War) 4. Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”) 5. Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc. 6. William H. McNeill 7. Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him. 8. Herodotus, author of “The Histories” about the Greco-Persian Wars, known as “the Father of History”. 9. Arnold J. Toynbee, author of the 12-volume _A Study of History_ 10. Adam Ulam, expert on the Soviet Union ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43808 "2016-05-23T13:24:53Z")
Notable historians 1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People) 2. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”) 3. Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War) 4. Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”) 5. Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc. 6. William H. McNeill 7. Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him. 8. Herodotus, author of “The Histories” about the Greco-Persian Wars, known as “the Father of History”. 9. Arnold J. Toynbee, author of the 12-volume A Study of History 10. Adam Ulam, expert on the Soviet Union 11. Winston Churchill ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43809 "2016-05-23T15:19:31Z")
Notable historians 1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People) 2. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”) 3. Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War) 4. Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”) 5. Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc. 6. William H. McNeill 7. Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him. 8. Herodotus, author of “The Histories” about the Greco-Persian Wars, known as “the Father of History”. 9. Arnold J. Toynbee, author of the 12-volume A Study of History 10. Adam Ulam, expert on the Soviet Union 11. Winston Churchill 12. Will and Ariel Durant ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43810 "2016-05-23T15:26:28Z")
Notable historians 1. Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People) 2. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”) 3. Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War) 4. Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”) 5. Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc. 6. William H. McNeill 7. Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him. 8. Herodotus, author of “The Histories” about the Greco-Persian Wars, known as “the Father of History”. 9. Arnold J. Toynbee, author of the 12-volume A Study of History 10. Adam Ulam, expert on the Soviet Union 11. Winston Churchill 12. Will and Ariel Durant 13. Stephen Ambrose, popular WW2 historian Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 14. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43811 "2016-05-23T15:54:23Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43812 "2016-05-23T15:57:27Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43813 "2016-05-23T16:02:13Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43814 "2016-05-23T16:11:21Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43815 "2016-05-23T17:44:31Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43816 "2016-05-23T17:51:49Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. Er… no. I keep running into adults who believe this. And by “keep running into”, I mean two or three people have repeated this to me over the past 20+ years. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43817 "2016-05-23T19:15:07Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. Even in the 1970s this was disproven, but my 4th grade teacher swore it was true and was due to Eve being made from Adam’s rib. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43818 "2016-05-24T01:29:13Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. 9. Pluto was a planet ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43819 "2016-05-24T01:31:09Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. 9. Pluto was a planet 10. It sure was a good thing Andrew Johnson was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial. As to #9: [http://rlv.zcache.com/we\_had\_nine\_planets\_coffee\_mug-r74f7eae690244a83bbfc83ec3e9e31e1\_x7jgr\_8byvr\_324.jpg](http://rlv.zcache.com/we_had_nine_planets_coffee_mug-r74f7eae690244a83bbfc83ec3e9e31e1_x7jgr_8byvr_324.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43820 "2016-05-24T01:53:15Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. 9. Pluto was a planet 10. It sure was a good thing Andrew Johnson was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial. 11. There are four types of tastebuds, and each type occupies specific and separate parts of the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43821 "2016-05-24T03:46:46Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. 9. Pluto was a planet 10. It sure was a good thing Andrew Johnson was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial. 11. There are four types of tastebuds, and each type occupies specific and separate parts of the tongue. 12. Pandas may LOOK like bears, but they’re really in the raccoon family ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43822 "2016-05-24T04:02:27Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. 9. Pluto was a planet 10. It sure was a good thing Andrew Johnson was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial. 11. There are four types of tastebuds, and each type occupies specific and separate parts of the tongue. 12. Pandas may LOOK like bears, but they’re really in the raccoon family 13. Dr, Samuel Mudd was an innocent surgeon sent to prison for doing his job and treating an injured man he did not recognize He not only recognized Booth, he had plotted with him previously and he intentionally misdirected Federal soldiers. Next up: Famous pets of famous people: 1. Fala, FDR’s Scottie ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43823 "2016-05-24T04:34:31Z")
Things You Learned In School That Have Since Been Refuted/Seriously Challenged 1. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and stupid 2. The Solar System ended at Pluto 3. Protons, Neutrons, and electrons are the smallest particles. 4. The planet is getting colder. 5. The universe is 25+ billion years old. 6. Electrons orbit around the nucleus. 7. Oil came from dinosaurs. 8. Women have one more rib than men. 9. Pluto was a planet 10. It sure was a good thing Andrew Johnson was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial. 11. There are four types of tastebuds, and each type occupies specific and separate parts of the tongue. 12. Pandas may LOOK like bears, but they’re really in the raccoon family 13. Christopher Columbus was a great hero Surnames of cartoon characters 14. Andrews (Archie) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43824 "2016-05-24T04:56:02Z")
Famous pets of famous people: 1. Fala, FDR’s Scottie 2. Checkers, Nixon’s dog Surnames of cartoon characters 3. Andrews (Archie) 4. Funnie (Doug) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/43825 "2016-05-24T05:33:25Z")
Famous pets of famous people: 1. Fala, FDR’s Scottie 2. Checkers, Nixon’s dog 3. Blondi, Hitler’s German Shepherd Surnames of cartoon characters 1. Andrews (Archie) 2. Funnie (Doug) 3. Rogers (Shaggy from Scooby Doo) His real first name is Norville [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2192)