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

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The Khazar theory is an academic fringe theory that postulates that the bulk of European Jewry are of Central Asian (Turkic) origin. In spite of mainstream academic consensus conclusively rejecting it, this theory has been promoted in Anti-Semitic and some Anti-Zionist circles, arguing that Jews are an alien element both in Europe and in Palestine.

Examination of 'pseudohistory' and how to uncover trustworthy accounts focus of next Modern China Lecture | CSUSB News". inside.csusb.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-12-22 . Retrieved 2019-04-26. He has written extensively for Politico [3] and Byline Times, [4] and in 2021 published a non-fiction book, Fake History. [5] [6] Fake History looks at "the 10 biggest lies from history and... at the people who propagated them", [7] including the idea that the British royal family are German, or that Adolf Hitler was a failed artist. [8] I wish Labour had continued like that in every respect but it hasn’t. At least Stalin insisted on patriotism. Some times I wonder if Labour really wanted to give us socialism, perhaps it is different to be a Marxist from outside to be a Marxist from inside and to get elected, I wonder. 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.” I have read several of Dominic Sandbrook’s social histories of Britain in the 50s to the present day, and enjoyed them all.Of course, he’s not alone in twisting history to further his political goals. In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, school books have been modified to de-emphasise Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic. It’s all part of an effort to reverse that legacy and glorify the Ottoman past, as Erdoğan carves out ever more powers for himself. Leopold, Jason (14 January 2008). "House Passes, Considers Evangelical Resolutions". www.baltimorechronicle.com . Retrieved 30 April 2019. Civil debate about how to change society for the better has produced quite a bit of good in the past. But it invariably depended on each side appealing to a combination of the population’s self interest and desire to produce a decent society.

a b c Rabinovitch, Shelley; Lewis, James (2002). The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism. New York City, New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation. pp.32–35. ISBN 0-8065-2407-3. the ‘dominant narrative’ of history has, for the last thousand years at least, been dictated by ‘the dominant people’ and that means that it has been written by white males, about white males, for white males.” Fake History The arbitrary linking of disparate events so as to form – in the theorist's opinion – a pattern. This is typically then developed into a conspiracy theory postulating a hidden agent responsible for creating and maintaining the pattern. For example, the pseudohistorical The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail links the Knights Templar, the medieval Grail Romances, the Merovingian Frankish dynasty and the artist Nicolas Poussin in an attempt to identify lineal descendants of Jesus. I’m pretty sure he didn’t write the sub-title to his piece: “Woke historians want to expose lies about the past — even when they don’t exist” as:Incidentally I am the proud possessor of two small bits of furniture that a ‘kinsman’ of mine apparently looted from the building. Dobbs, Gregory. "Otto English on the myths of 'Fake Heroes' ". Good Reading . Retrieved 8 October 2023. 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. The cult of war, particularly WWII and Churchill’s persona, looms large in Fake History. Like other strains of exceptionalism, we buy into such myths for complex reasons – but essentially, it’s nice to believe we’re special, sacred or in someway blessed by the gods.

Dacianism is a Romanian pseudohistorical current that attempts to attribute far more influence over European and world history to the Dacians than that which they actually enjoyed. [40] Dacianist historiography claims that the Dacians held primacy over all other civilizations, including the Romans; [41] that the Dacian language was the origin of Latin and all other languages, such as Hindi and Babylonian; [42] and sometimes that the Zalmoxis cult has structural links to Christianity. [43] Dacianism was most prevalent in National Communist Romania, as the Ceaușescu regime portrayed the Dacians as insurgents defying an "imperialist" Rome; the Communist Party had formally attached "protochronism", as Dacianism was known, to Marxist ideology by 1974. [44] Historical falsification [ edit ] Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, a scene from which is shown in this fifteenth-century illumination, was a popular work of pseudohistory during the Middle Ages. Another example of historical revisionism is the thesis, found in the writings of David Barton and others, asserting that the United States was founded as an exclusively Christian nation. [51] [52] [53] Mainstream historians instead support the traditional position, which holds that the American founding fathers intended for church and state to be kept separate. [54] [55] Wellington fought two battles and won both, outnumbered on both occasions. The only allied victories of 1815 were those at which Wellington was present. The only tactical reverse he suffered was the loss of La Haye Sainte; every other French move against him failed. What Marxist Labour is doing pushing us to send more aid money and pushing us not only to let in all the failures of decolonization but even to fly them in straight from the Labour decolonization failures is going to build a new little Empire inside the UK (Labour wants them not to integrate but to keep their valuable failed identities). Then Labour will deal with this little Empire of failures as it dealt with the real thing in 1945 it will split our nation and destroy us, same as it did to our Union after the 1997 landslide. The end game for Labour is the total destruction of England, when that finally happens corks will pop in Moscow!English, Otto (2021). Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World. London. ISBN 978-1-78739-639-5. OCLC 1246540717. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)