Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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Why do we read bad history books that have the added lack of distinction of not being in any way true or useful .

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And the show's timeline is all off, too — we see our favorite marauders raiding a monastery in Season 1, and then attacking Paris in Season 3, which are two events that happened 120 years apart. Notable examples of pseudohistory include British Israelism, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, the Irish slaves myth, the witch-cult, Armenian genocide denial, Holocaust denial, the clean Wehrmacht myth, the 16th- and 17th-century Spanish Black Legend, and the claim that the Katyn massacre was not committed by the Soviet NKVD. The book is regarded by modern critics as one of the earliest works of modern American pseudohistory.

An alternative chronology is a revised sequence of events that deviates from the standard timeline of world history accepted by mainstream scholars. To win the war, Octavian knew he had to have the public on his side – winning important battles helped, but if the people didn’t like him, he would not be a successful ruler. When reached for comment, a spokesperson at the History Channel said that nothing was amiss, because that photo had been passed around the internet for years.

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The " Ancient Macedonians continuity theory" is one such pseudohistorical theory, which postulates demographic, cultural and linguistic continuity between Macedonians of antiquity and the main ethnic group in present-day North Macedonia. Perhaps the most common question that is posed to museum staff and educators dealing with things like fossils and other artefacts is: “Is it real? Vasudev Devnani, the education minister for the western state of Rajasthan, said in January 2017 that it was important to "understand the scientific significance" of the cow, as it was the only animal in the world to both inhale and exhale oxygen. According to CBS, the show depicted illegal activities, too, such as hunting at night and hunting feral cattle without a permit.Some skeptics have pointed out that Armstrong does not appear to be holding a camera, so someone else must be taking the picture. Nonetheless, the book was an international best-seller [82] and inspired Dan Brown's bestselling mystery thriller novel The Da Vinci Code. Not since the treaty of Trianon”, he gloated, “has our nation been as close as it is today to regaining its confidence and vitality” – a reference to the post-first world war treaty that deprived Hungary of two-thirds of its territory.