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

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Holocaust denial and genocide denial in general are widely categorized as pseudohistory. [7] :237 [25] Major proponents of Holocaust denial include David Irving and others, who argue that the Holocaust, Holodomor, Armenian genocide, Assyrian genocide, Greek genocide and other genocides did not occur, or were exaggerated greatly. [25] Alternative chronologies [ edit ] Meanwhile, suspicions about the validity of the letter were raised, and enquiries ensued. When it was determined that the letter was indeed a forgery, the Treasury sent the following press release to the editors of the London evening papers: Even before the end of the broadcast, doctors, nurses, soldiers and sailors reported for duty, ready to fight the Martians. Police stations across the country responded to thousands of calls. Newspaper reporters, hearing of the invasion, rushed to prepare special editions. Producers of the show were quite unprepared for this response, never thinking that anyone would believe that the broadcast was real. Reasons for Fake News This horrific fake news story was only one of thousands reported by both sides during the war. In an example from the German propaganda machine, the French Minister of War reported in 1914 that the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine were publishing news that the French Parliament had voted against the war and that the President of the Republic had been assassinated. 10. War of the Worlds

Often denies that there is such a thing as historical truth, clinging to the extreme skeptical notion that only what is absolutely certain can be called 'true' and nothing is absolutely certain, so nothing is true Cross, Frank Leslie; Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802903.The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a fraudulent work purporting to show a historical conspiracy for world domination by Jews. [22] The work was conclusively proven to be a forgery in August 1921, when The Times revealed that extensive portions of the document were directly plagiarized from Maurice Joly's 1864 satirical dialogue The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, [23] as well as Hermann Goedsche's 1868 anti-Semitic novel Biarritz. [24] The first Thanksgiving, 1621, Pilgrims and Native Americans gather to share a meal, oil painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, 1932. Cow only animal to inhale and exhale oxygen: Rajasthan minister". Hindustan Times. 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Linehan, Hugh. "Sinn Féin not allowing facts derail good 'Irish slaves' yarn". The Irish Times . Retrieved 2021-03-30. Morley, Neville (1999). Writing Ancient History. Cornell University Press. p.19. ISBN 0-8014-8633-5.

a b "The view of matriarchy as constituting a stage of cultural development now is generally discredited. Furthermore, the consensus among modern anthropologists and sociologists is that a strictly matriarchal society never existed." Encyclopædia Britannica (2007), entry Matriarchy. I should not do justice to…Marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the successful result of this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance I received from them.”Mark H is simply saying that Otto English’s being an anti-Brexit firebrand supports the argument being made in this article that English’s views of human events (both current and historical) tend toward the Manichaen. You are either right or wrong. You are either good or evil. You are either telling the truth or lying. He also couldn't have discovered America because Native Americans were already living there. In fact, Columbus is not even the first European to explore the Americas. That honor goes to the Norse explorer Leif Erikson who sailed to the Western Hemisphere over 400 years earlier. I can’t actually remember a time when Genghis Khan was referred to as nothing but a barbarian. Even when I was very young, the impression I got was that he was one of the great empire-builders, a Julius Caesar of the east. Funnily enough, the only historical figure I can think of that’s had a complete one-eighty turn is Napleon. When I was growing up, he was a great man; these days, he seems to more be seen as a power-mad warmonger. (not that both those things can’t be true at once, of course)