Yes, I will do my own research too...

[Hobbit]

Should add, on the subject of historical fantasy, that I'd thought of doing a "Great War" in early 1900s China where the Great Powers fall out over the division of the spoils and come to blows - each side having their troops backed up by Chinese auxilliaries - would make for a great "what if..." campaign.

[Hobbit]

What do you mean about Planet of the Apes not being history ?

[Conquistador]

With degrees in both history and geography (Computer and Traditional Cartography track within the major at the University of Washington ) I hear your pain.

Magic fueled the Renaissance, don't you know?

"Fortunately" it's not just my fellow Americans.  There was report of the British students majoring in Hospitality who selected "bus" as the cheapest transportation for tourists to some islands off the coast of France, Jersey or Guernsey, I forget which.  While my professionally paranoid work persona wonders if that's an urban myth I sadly don't find it unlikely based on 60 plus years of observing humans...

That said, there are many more items that people learned in school as "facts" that are not seen as unquestioned by historians anymore, and not just that stupid Cherry tree story about George Washington.

Gracias,

Glenn

[joroas]

That said, there are many more items that people learned in school as "facts" that are not seen as unquestioned by historians anymore, and not just that stupid Cherry tree story about George Washington.

Does that mean he owned up to something he didn't do?  How very unpresidential of him. 

[Conquistador]

Groooan.   

Gracias,

Glenn

[joroas]

So he might have said (read my lips)  "Father I did not have axe with that tree".

Was he holding his chopper at the time?

[Matakakea]

More recent research has shown that Washington was actually born in Texas, and it was a Mesquite rather than a Cherry tree. When he told his father what he had done his father replied 'Can't tell a lie, eh? Right, we're moving to Virginia. Theres no future for you here in Texas!'  

[FifteensAway]

"Don't believe nothin' them good fer nothin' cow punchin' Texans say!  They tried to tell me the good ole U.S of A. was located some a-where's up in north Texas.  Then they shouted out something about a sailing boat - what's a cow poke know about ships.  Have a nice day "yawl"? Bloody heathen's.  Give 'em back to Mexico, I say!"