ONCE again, courtesy of the New York Times News Service, we bring you highlights of world history compiled from student papers by Richard Lederer, an English teacher in Concord, N.H. The following excerpts are reprinted from Mr. Lederer's book, "Anguished English," published by Wyrick & Co. of Charleston, S.C.:
"During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe."
"One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps . . . Finally the colonists won the war and no longer had to pay for taxis."
"Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence."
"Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms."
"The Greeks were a highly sculptured people and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns -- corinthian, ironic, and dorc -- and built the Apocalypse. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth."
"Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by imitation."