Originally Posted by
Olympic Fan
One of my best friends taught at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount back in the 1970s. He called me up one day and said he had something I had to see.
He had assigned a paper on various religious figures in history. One student drew Martin Luther -- but his paper confused Martin Luther with Martin Luther King. The student apparently saw no conflict in the guy leading the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th Century, then hanging around to lead the Civil Rights movement midway through the 20th Century.
We got a big laugh ... but it was sobering to think that student graduated from high school and was actually in college.
My friend and I had a lot of fun afterwards figuring out other combined biographies -- the obvious one was Grover Cleveland -- the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, who may have fathered a child out of wedlock ("Ma, ma, where's my pa ... gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha"), then in retirement, pitched for the Phillies, Cubs and Cardinals, winning 373 games and striking out Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded in the key moment in the seventh game of the 1926 World Series!