longbow Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Hi,does anyone have any history falcifications that really annoy you?i have very long list but heres one for now. example L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 hmm...i dont know about that one. what bugs me: "alchemy is a medieval pseudoscience the objective of which with the transformation of base metals into gold" (found in most school history texts and only very slightly true. leaves a lot out and there is really nothing one can do but misinterpret it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbow Posted June 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Yeah its a dodgy one but i thought it might provoke some responces, heres a list of all the flyers who have some claim to be the first = List L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Neil Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Yes - 'They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round' (Frank Sinatra). No: they had re adopted the idea the world was round at least 200 years before Columbus. What they actully said was, that no ship of that era was capable of sailing all the way to China via the western route. And they were right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Sticking with the Roman theme mine would be: 'Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire' Though its not so much a terrible falsehood as it is a misnomer or bastardization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princeps Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Sticking with the Roman theme mine would be: 'Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire' Though its not so much a terrible falsehood as it is a misnomer or bastardization. Yeah, but he did sanction it though. He wasn't stupid enough to try and force it onto the consulate and the population as a whole, but the benefits he afforded to converts made it very attractive, and his official stamp of approval made mass conversion possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futurehistorian1 Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 several history falsifacations accur because there is no clear proof like that isaic newton discoverd sunspots no one realty knows but the evidense pushes more tword johan goldsmid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Neil Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 I think rather more inventions have been credited to Edison than he actually personally invented. He took out patents on things which were on the verge of being invented, and when someone finally invented it, he took the credit because he had the patent. For example: I believe that a French guy invented cinematography, but Edison got the credit because he took out a patent on a 'moving picture camera' which anyone with any sense must have forseen being invented sometime in the late 1800's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 The stereotype of the evil Roman Empire that never did anything halfway decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 I honestly never heard that one, although it may be that I was too busy admiring Rome to notice LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futurehistorian1 Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 Any one who sauys that is an idiot and i think shoulnd not talk about things the dont know one thing i cant stand is when i tell people how i study rome they say they like the greeks for there gladiators i cant stand it when the stupid pediphile greeks get credit for roman things. the only thing i give greece an ounce of apreciation for is letting us prepare food in them lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 I don't have any History Falcifications, however, here is some History of Calcification... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...3&dopt=Abstract Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbow Posted July 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 LOL,a mineralized endoskeleton sounds like a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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