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    Of History, perhaps with soap

    As a break from the US elections, various shootings, bombs and wars ... how about a look back at a different time?

    http://www.cracked.com/article_20186...-believes.html

    Just for a bit more amusement:

    http://www.cracked.com/article_18627...correctly.html
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    I think some of the points they are making are a bit too strong, and historians don't agree with them entirely - only partially. For example, there were many kinds of knights: early Templars were, indeed, somewhat similar to the "noble knight" pictured in fiction, while, most others participating in crusades, for example, weren't much of saints. Or with believing that Earth was flat: most people were uneducated at the time, they didn't even think about such things, for the most part, and asking a random peasant from 1100 from France whether Earth was flat would likely result in confusion: "What do you mean 'Earth if flat'?"

    Still, interesting articles. Thanks!
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