FOLKS WHO DIDN'T EXIST
they used the image of a Caribbean-born model named Renee L’Esperance who was discovered There are several familiar people you might think were while working at a department store. Today the historical figures. Not so! Follow along and see! company uses digitally-produced images. • For generations, young girls have been reading Nancy Drew mysteries, a series that originated in 1930. Their • According to folklore, Paul Bunyan formed the Great Lakes out of a need for a large enough waauthor, Carolyn Keene, was the invention of publisher tering hole for Babe the Blue Ox to drink from. He Edward Stratemeyer, who hired several ghostwriters supposedly cleared North Dakota of its forests and over the years to write the books. He paid the writers Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes were reportedly formed $125 per book, and made them sign over all rights to the by his and Babe’s footprints as they stumbled manuscripts. They were also required to sign a secrecy through a huge blizzard. This lumberjack of legend contract that forbade them from claiming any credit for may have been a participant in Canada’s 1837 Papthe books. ineau Rebellion when French Canadians rebelled • Maybe you learned to type from the “Mavis Beacon against their new ruler, the Queen of England. A Teaches Typing” program, software introduced in 1987 tall bearded bellowing man was among the logto teach touch-typing. It’s logical to assume that the gers and became famous for his part in the battle, lovely face featured on the box is that of Mavis Beacon, Legends of his heroics were told around loggers’ except for the fact that there is no such person. When campfires for years to come, each one being embelThe Software Toolworks designed the packaging, ...continued lished a bit more.
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