Great Pratfalls in History!

Time: June 1, 1972
Place: Washington, D.C.
Joe Haldeman does a full-twist ass-over-head slip on a slick part of the Oval office floor. Nixon laughs for 18 1/2 minutes.

Time: May 24, 1906
Place: Lambach, Austria
A young Adolf Hitler slips on a puddle of Greenberg's Cleaning Solution, to his great embarrassment and his classmates' delight.

Time: August 10, 1921
Place: New York City, New York
During a garden birthday party Franklin Delano Roosevelt jumps from a roof whilst holding an umbrella, shattered legs blamed on 'polio.'

Time: November 22, 1963
Place: Dallas, Texas
Secret Service sniper James Cooley trips over a particularly rambunctious Golden Retriever puppy on the roof of the Dallas Book Depository, accidentally discharging his firearm in "no particular direction, honest."

Time: December 20, 2007
Place: Badger, IO
A running skid with full extension arm spin at a campaign event is seen as humanizing presidential candidate Hilary Clinton.

Time: August 6, 1945
Place: Washington, D.C.
To distract media attention from a podium slip on the previous day, Truman orders the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Unsung Heroes of the Civil War

Col. Samuel “Personkiller” Garvey
Confederacy

There were approximately 12,000 Union casualties in the Battle of Fredricksburg. Garvey was responsible for 10,000 alone. Born in 1830, he somehow managed to enlist in the British Expeditionary Force at the beginning of World War I, and died in a trench at the Battle of the Somme, his hands clenched around the neck of a dead German soldier.

Maj. Alfie McClellan
Union

Brother of one time Union Army general-in-chief Gen. George McClellan, this notorious drunk showed up for three distinct battles* naked except for his cavalry saber. A hero of the Battle of Antietam, he somehow managed to take fifty Confederate troops prisoner when his bottom half was fired into their front lines as he tried to sodomize a cannon.

Lt. Col. Walter Featherhoof
Union

An unremarkable soldier, Featherhoof is notable for being the only unicorn to fight on either side of the Civil War.

*First Bull Run, Pea Ridge, Antietam