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Peccy Joined Thu 06/28/07 Posts: 17181	Tue 04/08/08 04:49 PM
the history lessons you learned in school were mostly fiction?

lilith401 Joined Wed 10/31/07 Posts: 19593	Tue 04/08/08 04:51 PM
No... but again I did not go to Catholic school, so only partly fiction... <--- mostly joking.

irad8you Joined Tue 09/04/07 Posts: 8261	Tue 04/08/08 04:52 PM
School was a long time ago, as far as history goes, beer was still made with barley and hops lol

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Tue 04/08/08 04:52 PM
no Im studying history in school right now

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Tue 04/08/08 04:52 PM
the history lessons you learned in school were mostly fiction? I wouldn't say fiction, necessarily. More like radically skewed and biased manglings -- for the sake of an agenda -- of more or less factual events.

Aikido Joined Mon 03/03/08 Posts: 476	Tue 04/08/08 04:52 PM
Winners write history, whos to say what really happened- the winners of war already changed the truth

Lily0923 Joined Sun 12/02/07 Posts: 20429	Tue 04/08/08 04:53 PM
the history lessons you learned in school were mostly fiction? YES. he who wins the war writes the history books....

Single_Rob Joined Mon 02/04/08 Posts: 8233	Tue 04/08/08 04:55 PM
only the death camps of nazi germany, and the rightousness of the us government

Aikido Joined Mon 03/03/08 Posts: 476	Tue 04/08/08 04:56 PM
only the death camps of nazi germany, and the rightousness of the us government What about the camps of mitusubi? Had american POWs as slaves(not popular cause america owns Japan now- but true)

Etrain Joined Wed 11/21/07 Posts: 19684	Tue 04/08/08 04:56 PM
agree...history has been doctored quite a bit

Aikido Joined Mon 03/03/08 Posts: 476	Tue 04/08/08 04:58 PM
scary thing is that bush has a masters in history but learned nothing from it

Bornnaked Joined Sun 07/29/07 Posts: 2359	Tue 04/08/08 04:58 PM
Taking Pluto off the Planet list screwed me up.

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Tue 04/08/08 05:00 PM
Taking Pluto off the Planet list screwed me up. I know! That was crazy! You can't make it a planet in 1930 and kick it out of the lineup now just because it's the wrong size or color or something. Which one is getting the boot next, Krypton?

Jill298 Joined Fri 11/09/07 Posts: 16316	Tue 04/08/08 05:00 PM
No... but again I did not go to Catholic school, so only partly fiction... <--- mostly joking.

NeedaLife Joined Sat 04/05/08 Posts: 203	Tue 04/08/08 05:01 PM
If I could remember what I learned (or should I say didn't learn) in history class, maybe I could contribute an answer.

lilith401 Joined Wed 10/31/07 Posts: 19593	Tue 04/08/08 05:02 PM
Taking Pluto off the Planet list screwed me up. I know! That was crazy! You can't make it a planet in 1930 and kick it out of the lineup now just because it's the wrong size or color or something. I am embarassed to say I found out at the museum of natural history and my son said (what I thought was) the wrong number of planets. I said, no honey what about Pluto and he said, nooo, that's not a planet. He was five and I was so glad we were alone.

Peccy Joined Thu 06/28/07 Posts: 17181	Tue 04/08/08 05:03 PM
If I could remember what I learned (or should I say didn't learn) in history class, maybe I could contribute an answer. I agree, I have killed too many brain cells since then

Aikido Joined Mon 03/03/08 Posts: 476	Tue 04/08/08 05:03 PM
Taking Pluto off the Planet list screwed me up. I know! That was crazy! You can't make it a planet in 1930 and kick it out of the lineup now just because it's the wrong size or color or something. Which one is getting the boot next, Krypton? What happened is they found a "moon" in the rotation they thought was pluto. Come to find out they were looking in the wrong spot!!!!!!! A planet is there just not in the rotation they've been tracking. Simply put found a moon & a different rotation for pluto. All political

Snoman1951 Joined Tue 04/01/08 Posts: 5731	Tue 04/08/08 05:04 PM
I think it depends who wrote it. My take on history now is different than in high school. is that agree or disagree..I forgot

PacificStar48 Joined Tue 10/02/07 Posts: 13764	Tue 04/08/08 05:06 PM
If most of history is fiction then what about that thing about if you don't know history you are doomed to repeat it? Would we be repeating ficton or something else?