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Originally Posted by Eisenhower
Wow... you don't hear compliments about The United States like that often.  And you're right, America has come a very long way in a short amount time.
I was thinking... we invented the light bulb, telephone, television, radio, video games, basketball, baseball, football ( all the important one's! ) computers  , the internet for cryin'-out-loud, and we've been to the moon & back, and the list goes on... this country's suh-weet! |
not that you shouldn't be proud as an American, but boy you picked a lot of things that Americans didn't invent. In addition to the above post of things that weren't invented by Americans, Basketball was invented by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith. Although the telephone was first patented in the US, Alexander Grahame Bell was a Scot who immigrated to Canada and later to the US, still retreating to Canada every year for summer. Finally, football was invented by Americans, but first played in Canada. Every year Harvard would play McGill University in a game of rugby. In 1874, the Harvard rugby came up to Montreal to play a game and suggested a few rule changes (forward passing) to the game of rugby and thus the first game of American football was played in Canada.