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10 Surprising History Facts That Will Warp Your Sense of Time
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Posted on 04/20/2014 8:27:09 AM PDT by chessplayer
1. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the construction of the pyramids.
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To: chessplayer
Cleopatra also lived closer to the moon.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:27:53 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: chessplayer
She walked like an Egyptian.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:28:50 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: chessplayer
It’s not really known exactly how long ago the pyramids were constructed, how long it took, if they were slaves or just workers, what method was used, or all that other stuff.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:32:00 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: MUDDOG
But when asked to read hieroglyphics, she famously said “It's all Greek to me!”
To: chessplayer
America was still a free country when I was a child.
To: Telepathic Intruder
Flying saucers with tractor beams built the pyramids, of course.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:34:09 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: SoCal Pubbie
LOL!
A poster a few days ago said Cleo was accepted by the natives because she did know the native language, but whether she could read hieroglyphics, I don't know.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:34:47 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Senator_Blutarski
The hero of Benghazi was born in Kenya when I got my drivers license
To: chessplayer
Kamikaze! Typhoon saves Japan from the Mongols. Of course, the suicide bombers of WWII, took the name but didn’t have the success of the real thing. Fortunately.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:37:53 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: chessplayer
"One year after Shakespeare wrote "Macbeth," in 1606, English colonists in Virginia established Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Events at the time later inspired his work on "The Tempest," a tale about shipwrecked Europeans colonizing an American island."
My forebear, John Proctor, was aboard that ship, the Sea Venture, which was wrecked on Bermuda.
To: chessplayer
That
any of these are a surprise is a testament to the 'dumbing down' of our schools and the substitution of 'social studies' and 'current events' for actual, real, history (which is hard work if done right).
There's also some political correctness at work here, since it is fashionable to portray Cleopatra as an "African". She wasn't even of Egyptian heritage, let alone sub-Saharan African - she was Macedonian Greek, one of the Ptolemies who came in to rule Egypt after Alexander the Great's conquest. They did not mingle with the common people.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:41:05 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: MUDDOG
She learned Egyptian and set herself up as the reincarnation of the Goddess Isis in order to consolidate her rule.
Her native language was Greek.
The ruling classes had scribes to read and write for them. That was probably just as true in ancient Egypt as it was in western Europe in medieval times. Literacy did not have the attraction for the upper classes that it did for the middle class!
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:43:35 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: chessplayer
10 pages to get all 10.
It’s a trap, everyone.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:46:39 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
To: chessplayer
To be honest, all of the above is a common knowledge and not surprising at all.
To: AnAmericanMother
Hence my post number 5. Also, her first husband was her brother. THAT might warp people too!
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:47:52 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
To: AnAmericanMother
I guess that’s what makes Anna Comnena such a standout, albeit a thousand years later.
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:48:54 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Fightin Whitey
Did they have a hieroglyphic for “va-va-va-voom”?
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posted on
04/20/2014 8:50:16 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
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