Some things have slipped through history with a little fiction attached or some important details omitted. One, of course, is Paul Revere’s ride. Despite that beautiful Longfellow poem, Paul Revere was captured by the British before he could reach Concord and sound the alarm. But it’s a wonderful way to teach history.

The Boston Tea Party didn’t quite come off as expected, either. The night of December, 1773, when the Colonists planned the raid to take place, they mistakenly chose the hour of low tides. So when the party began, with the rebels dressed as Indians, the water around the ship was too low to break open the trunks. So the nearly 350 crates of tea piled up in the shallow water.

The disturbed Partygoers had to leap overboard to smash open the crates of tea to make certain the tea was soggy and ruined!

Snoopy made an amusing remark that can be applied to such events in a Peanuts comic strip.

Snoopy is laying atop his doghouse when he thinks to himself: “My stomach tells me it’s suppertime.”

Then he sits up and look toward the house and exclaims: “Rats!”

“It isn’t even NEAR suppertime . . .”

He lies (no pun intended) back down and mutters: “I hate having a stomach that tells lies!”