By portraying bogus intelligence as fact and by inventing a relationship
between al-qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Cheney, Bush (& Rumsfeld) led the
charge into Iraq.
In the years following Cheney's company Halliburton earned over 10 billion dollars
in contracts from the Iraq war despite the fact that audits have shown they
have repeatedly stolen and overcharged the US government and even instituted
accounting methods designed to make funds disappear...
Anti-German feelings after WWI led the AKC to drop "German" and call the breed simply the "Shepherd Dog," and in Britain it became the "Alsatian." The AKC restored the original name in 1931, while the UK Kennel Club didn't fully return to "German Shepherd Dog" until 1977.
Beagles are the breed most commonly used in laboratory research because of their manageable size and gentle, easygoing temperament. This has led to many Beagle rescue and adoption efforts.
Abyssinians look strikingly similar to the cats shown in ancient Egyptian art and statues, which led to the long-running but unproven idea that they descend from the sacred cats of Egypt.
The idea of an aggressive "alpha wolf" came from studies of unrelated captive wolves. In the wild, most packs are just families led by the parents, and biologist David Mech, who popularized the term, later worked to correct it.
Inventor Elisha Gray filed paperwork for a similar telephone design at the patent office on the same day as Alexander Graham Bell, which led to years of legal fights.
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue LED, which made bright, energy-saving white LED lighting possible.
As a young man, Galileo noticed that a swinging chandelier in Pisa Cathedral took the same amount of time for each swing, which led to his study of pendulums.