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

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But according to Contrail Science (and now everyone who believes this stuff is shouting, "You can't trust Contrail Science because they are totally in on it! In real life (assuming Ragnar existed, obviously), the two men were not only not brothers, it's unlikely they ever even met.

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

According to E-Celebrity, one really stupid thing that got viewers fired up about the show (and not in the good way) is the fact that contestants aren't being forced to survive miles from civilization, which is what the showrunners want you to believe. His accusers think he made rubber-stamp copies of the company bosses' signatures so the company's checking account could become his own personal checking account. In the Apollo 11 pictures, “the sunlight is being scattered or reflected off the ground every which way, and some of it—a small fraction but enough to be able to see—scatters into the shadows,” Fienberg says. However, this false fact circulated and was repeated by numerous organizations and major news outlets, including Fox News, the ACLU, and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," in 2011.In her books, starting with The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921), English author Margaret Murray claimed that the witch trials in the early modern period were actually an attempt by chauvinistic Christians to annihilate a secret, pagan religion, [89] which she claimed worshipped a Horned God. So rich that they set up a bunch of banks so pilgrims could withdraw money once they were in the holy land and not have to worry about getting robbed en route. Citing breach of contract, Bruce filed a legal complaint in Greenville County Highlands Summary Court in South Carolina. Sometimes a work of pseudohistory will adopt a position of historical relativism, insisting that there is really no such thing as historical truth and that any hypothesis is just as good as any other.

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Anyway, the whole idea is so patently stupid that most people don't even think about it, except History, who evidently felt like it was worth devoting part of a show to the weather-specific parts of the theory. According to the New York Daily News, however, the reality star was able to avoid jail time with a plea deal despite being charged with quite a few felonies. Often though it can come from incredulity, that something like a tyrannosaur tooth really could exist or be real. In "Knightfall," the Knights Templar are an elite fighting force who look great in chain mail and have a lot of affairs and get sweaty but still somehow manage to stay sexy underneath all the blood.

The suggestion is that, as his government clashes with the EU on migration quotas, it is avenging grievances rooted in the 20th century. The Apollo 11 astronauts had trouble extending the rod all the way, and in still pictures, this creates a ripple effect that makes the flag look like it’s waving in the wind. Computer vision is an intricate field primarily concerned with image and video processing-giving computers the ability to understand information from images and videos. Why do we read bad history books that have the added lack of distinction of not being in any way true or useful . In video images of the flag, you can see it only moves while the astronauts are grinding it into the moon’s surface.

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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.Producers held firm, though, and remaining fans just had to deal with a whole new bunch of (hopefully less violent) swamp people. According to the show, this map is somehow supposed to be connected to a much more mysterious and valuable "Templar document. The philosopher Tzvetan Todorov has described this as “one of the most inalienable freedoms, alongside the freedom to think and express oneself”. Some of the proponents of this official narrative have even gone so far as to claim that the Armenians were the real aggressors, and that Muslim losses were greater than those of the Armenians.