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

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That didn't stop "Ax Men" star Jimmy Smith from fishing those logs out of the river on national freaking television, which was either ridiculously arrogant or ridiculously stupid. 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. Some societies are matrilineal or matrifocal but in fact have patriarchal power structures, which may be misidentified as matriarchal. The claim that a lost continent known as Lemuria once existed in the Pacific Ocean has likewise been categorized as pseudohistory. The initial claims the moon landing was staged came at a time when the Pentagon Papers and Watergate had eroded Americans’ trust in their government.

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Some skeptics have pointed out that Armstrong does not appear to be holding a camera, so someone else must be taking the picture. Long ago, when the internet was young and facts still had meaning, there was a television network known as the History Channel. And so it goes on, asking viewers to venerate all those wealthy white dudes because they built some cars and bridges and loaned a lot of money to people. There are already common, popular applications for computer vision technologies, things like autonomous vehicles that use computer vision to analyze road paths and obstructions, medical systems that use computer vision to diagnose patients, and of course, facial recognition used by Facebook to suggest photo tags.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. Although the phrase might appear to be a modern invention, examples of it can be found throughout history. Director Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey wowed audiences in 1968 for creating a realistic image of outer space.

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The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum in Turkey promotes the false narrative that Armenians committed genocide against Turks, rather than vice versa. Photograph: Osman Orsal /Reuters Turkish president Recep Erdoğan and his wife, Emine, attend a rally in Istanbul.No, in many cases the contestants are actually within an hour's walk of the nearest town, and sometimes they're in a place where there is a network of trails, which definitely seems to suggest that they're just not really that isolated.

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Turkish Linguists against the West: The Origins of Linguistic Nationalism in Atatürk's Turkey" (PDF). Gavin Menzies' book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, which argues for the idea that Chinese sailors discovered America, has also been categorized as a work of pseudohistory. So at a certain point, one must wonder when History is going to change its name to something slightly more descriptive, like "Opposite of History" or maybe "Fiction. On 22 July, the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán stood before university students and delivered a speech titled “Will Europe belong to Europeans?A few of my friends sent it to me and, while something felt off about the video, I was suspiciously convinced. Because they're so elite, and because the individual identities of its members would be of great interest to the United States' enemies, security and secrecy is of extreme importance. 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.