Our cherished culturally shared beliefs stem from a variety of sources, many of which propagate old wives' tales, myths, self-serving fantasies, innocent fallicies or sheer nonsense. History is replete with stories that either never happened or didn't happen the way we were told they did. Here, Reich explodes 200 myths, including the following: that the ship captain of a ship can perform marriages, that Mussolini's trains ran on time and that Cleopatra was Egyptian.
