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25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:32am On Jan 27, 2016 |
1. In 1788 the Austrian army accidentally attacked itself and lost 10,000 men
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:33am On Jan 27, 2016 |
2. Assassinating Caesar in order to save the Republic and not realizing that the assassination would all but ensure its demise
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by GAZZUZZ(m): 8:34am On Jan 27, 2016 |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:35am On Jan 27, 2016 |
3. Thinking that the West Indies was Southeast Asia
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:37am On Jan 27, 2016 |
4. Although nobody knows who was responsible, the burning of the library of Alexandria was potentially the world's single greatest loss of knowledge ever
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:39am On Jan 27, 2016 |
5. Not giving Hannibal siege equipment, which lead to Hannibal basically ignoring Rome, which led to Rome basically destroying Hannibal
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:40am On Jan 27, 2016 |
6. Alexander the Great not naming an heir which led directly to the fall of his empire
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by vault(m): 8:41am On Jan 27, 2016 |
No 1 is just crazy...... |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:42am On Jan 27, 2016 |
7The 12 book publishers that rejected Harry Potter Twelve publishing houses rejected JK Rowling's Harry Potter manuscript before Bloomsbury finally took her on following theadvice of the company chairman'seight-year-old daughterAlice.The books were subsequently translated intoover 60 languagesand have earned Rowling a reported $1bn (£670m). 1 Like
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:43am On Jan 27, 2016 |
8. Faulty construction leading to the meltdown of the Chernobyl Reactor, the consequences of which are still being counted to this day
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:45am On Jan 27, 2016 |
9. The Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor whennot a single US aircraft carrier was in port
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:46am On Jan 27, 2016 |
10. Archduke Franz Ferdinand's driver making a wrong turn that led right to the feet of hisassassin, Gavrilo Princip. Two World Wars that could have been at least postponed bya Garmin.
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by collinsy2: 8:46am On Jan 27, 2016 |
okay |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:47am On Jan 27, 2016 |
11. 14th century China abandoning its navy and pursuing a policy of isolationism. It arguably could have been much more influential than any European power.
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:48am On Jan 27, 2016 |
12. Somebody leaving a gate open and allowing the Turks to sack Constantinople in 1453
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:49am On Jan 27, 2016 |
13. Filling the Hindenburg with hydrogen
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:50am On Jan 27, 2016 |
14. Although no one is sure whether or not the Trojan Horse actually existed, if it did, it was worthy of this list
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:52am On Jan 27, 2016 |
15. Inca ruler Atahualpa agreeing to meet Conquistador Fransisco Pizarro during which 200 Spanish horseman ambushed and defeated 80,000 Inca warriors
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:53am On Jan 27, 2016 |
16. Russia selling Alaska to the US for 2 cents an acre because they thought it was a useless tundra
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by lacasera14(m): 8:53am On Jan 27, 2016 |
Costly mistakes indeed |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:54am On Jan 27, 2016 |
17. The Dutch discovering Australia 100 years before the British but ignoring it because they thought it was a useless desert
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:56am On Jan 27, 2016 |
18. The Persians sending Genghis Khan's ambassador back to Genghis Khan withouta head and bringing the wrath of Mongolia down on themselves. another explanation... enghis Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire had sought to open diplomatic and trade links with Ala ad-Din Muhammad, Shah of the neighbouring Khwarezmid empire (modern day Iraq/Iran) in the 13th century.However, after the offer was rejected and a Mongol diplomat beheaded, Khan reacted furiously, sending in an estimated 200,000 warriors and utterly destroying the empire
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:57am On Jan 27, 2016 |
19. Hitler thinking he could do any better than Napoleon
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:58am On Jan 27, 2016 |
20. Napoleon thinking he could invade Russia in winter
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 8:59am On Jan 27, 2016 |
21.NASA loses a Mars orbiter because part of the team used metric units and the other half used English.
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by Hermanie(m): 9:00am On Jan 27, 2016 |
Make I book space. I dey come back |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 9:01am On Jan 27, 2016 |
22. Decca Records turning down the Beatles because they weren't sellable. Enter EM. another explanation.. In 1962, record label Decca were looking to sign an up and coming band. They auditioned two young bands at their studiosin London, deciding to sign Brian Poole andthe Tremeloes. The one they rejected? A four-piece outfit from Liverpool known as The Beatles. 1 Like
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by TheArchangel(f): 9:03am On Jan 27, 2016 |
Russian czars should be exhumed and burned. Imagine!! Alaska...is American's oilfield now. |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 9:03am On Jan 27, 2016 |
23. Not having enough life boats on the Titanicbecause it was "unsinkable" 4 Likes 1 Share
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Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by hardicted: 9:04am On Jan 27, 2016 |
5 more |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by bewla(m): 9:04am On Jan 27, 2016 |
thanks for the reach out |
Re: 25 Biggest And Most Embarrassing Mistakes Ever Made by EFCC1(m): 9:05am On Jan 27, 2016 |
24. It took 177 years to build the Tower of Pisaand only 10 years for it to start leaning
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