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

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TRUTH: While many believe we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence's signing on the Fourth of July, it was actually signed in August of 1776. The rise to fame of actor Andrew Scott then persuaded English to stick with the pen name "rather than get confused with Moriarty", whom the actor had played in the BBC One drama Sherlock. In 1903, the Clarksburg Daily Telegram published a purposely fake news story in an effort to expose the Clarksburg Daily News who they knew were pilfering their articles.

Austen claims to be writing about a Mr Hollis, but any fule must kno that this is a coded reference to President James Madison, required to retreat from “his own [White] House” by that very fire (the phrase “the best place” is a masterstroke of irony), and resenting the ineffective generalship of H. In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, school books have been modified to de-emphasise Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic. Madame Marquet had gone to Monte Carlo to collect a debt but once there, she was lured by the roulette tables and lost all of the money. But as every false report of this kind which may arise from mistake only cannot be charged as a crime, so it is very difficult to say how often it must be repeated in the paper to make it criminal… I don’t know any method to prevent this practice but by prosecuting the offenders when they are guilty.Pseudohistory is offered as an undergraduate course in liberal arts settings, one example being in Claremont McKenna College. In the chapter on curry, for example, English sets out to debunk the supposed lie that “curry comes from India”, but immediately tells us that in post-war Britain “most people ate shit… Most British people stewed the living taste out of everything. Madame Marquet, the wife of an Algerian apothecary, claimed in December 1890 that she had been set upon and robbed while riding in the ladies compartment on a French train. I have now plowed through enough of these books to be able to state that, as a genre, they are badly written and, in their anxiety to establish their dubious neo-scholarly credentials, incredibly tedious. But then it’s the adults who perhaps suffer with the same hang-ups, albeit not to the same degree, who’ve let the kids out of the play pen.

Civil War revisionists), " Lost Cause" advocates, and Neo-Confederates argue that the Confederate States of America's prime motivation was the maintenance of states' rights and limited government, rather than the preservation and expansion of slavery. The Sun Language Theory is a pseudohistorical ideology which argues that all languages are descended from a form of proto-Turkish.Bodas, retired principal of a pilot training facility, claimed that aircraft more advanced than today's versions existed in ancient India at the Indian Science Congress.

In part, he was a great salesman, and he knew how to outpace everyone else who was working on the light bulb. But what is relatively unknown is that these didn’t abruptly vanish when the Roman Empire slowly withdrew, people continued to find ways to get rid of their filth away from where they lived during the middle ages. The podcast combines storytelling, humour, and historical detective work to create a show that is good for both history buffs and anyone who loves a good story. Alexander, Brooks (2007), A New History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans, London, England: Thames and Hudson, p. Yes, they weave their facts into narratives, wear their prejudices very heavily, and sometimes make tendentious claims.This story has been making the rounds on the internet with a claim that you’ve probably been told during visits to castles, but, there’s no evidence for it whatsoever.

At Ligny on the 16th two of their three Corps were broken so badly they weren’t fit to fight at Waterloo. Whether you are skimming through historical newspaper archives, or browsing through your Facebook feed, don’t believe everything you read. It was impossible not to feel him hardly used; to be obliged to stand back in his own House and see the best place by the fire constantly occupied by Sir H. But yeah, that always seems to be the case with people who think they’re blowing your mind by revealing “the REAL truth. Social media has been flooded with stories and photos of antique vampire hunting kits, often fancy wooden boxes with all sorts of tools needed to kill vampires, all with their own neat little compartment.I have to acquaint you, that the message which was supposed to have been sent this morning from Lord Hawkesbury to the Lord Mayor stating that the Negotiations with France had terminated amicably, was a fabrication, and totally destitute of truth. My friends might know that unless I were actually dying in poverty I should not live in poverty when I am receiving offers to lecture by every mail. They have yesterday and today been publicly held up to public scorn and contumely and have actually admitted in their own columns that they “FAKE THE NEWS”.