Western Civ 101 was never quite like this!"The Pharisees showed off their goodness by praying in synonyms" . . . "The fourteenth century was an unpleasant era to be alive in, much less dead in" . . . "The Vaccuum is a large empty space where the popes live in Rome" . . .This is the history you never learned in school (or maybe you did).Art Linkletter once noted that small children often mix fantasy and reality, making their views of everyday life wildly askew. But w...