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8 Misconceptions
















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Attribution Notes:

Fortune Cookie image used under Creative Commons license.
Attribution: https://flickr.com/photos/45503872@N03/5452373550

Sun and planets image from https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/technically_the_earth_does_not_orbit_the_sun.html

Barycenter image used under Creative Commons license.
Attribution: http://s173.photobucket.com/user/CarlSmith_2007/media/Sun%20SSB/ssb-orbit-col.gif.html

Napoleon Bonaparte image (photo by Jacques-Louis David) is in the public domain. 

Muslim pie chart image from https://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ 

Brain image used under Creative Commons license.
Attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52398306

Jackie Robinson image (photo by Bob Sandberg) is in the public domain.

William Edward White image (photo by Brown University) is in the public domain.

Moses Fleetwood Walker image (photo by unknown author) is in the public domain.

Weldy Walker image is in the public domain, and has no author information.

Background information was gathered from these sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/technically_the_earth_does_not_orbit_the_sun.html
https://bestlifeonline.com/facts-from-the-20th-century-that-are-totally-bogus-today/
https://bestlifeonline.com/common-misconceptions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
https://www.businessinsider.com/misconceptions-about-history-2012-5
https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/historical-misconceptions/
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Invented_in_Oakland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_black_Major_League_Baseball_players