Seemed an appropriate topic what with that dictators thread:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=508517

Summary [of 2069 Interviewees over the age of 16]:


I'm somewhere between amused fascination and horror as a history major..

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But, but the Battle Of Endor was true! If it wasn't true all those poor Ewoks would be under the oppression of the Empire!

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Battle of Endor would have been much cooler without Ewoks. Ewoks ruined ROTJ for me.

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what would you have had instead of ewoks?

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Non-Ewoks.

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"Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator, 33 per cent
Adolf Hitler - 11 per cent
Winston Churchill - 9 per cent"

If it weren't for those three I could be amused, but that is just really sad.

Some memory these people have.

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[This message has been edited by FastGamerr (edited April 06, 2004).]

Where did they hold that poll? A junior school? I very seriously doubt that 11% of people in the UK dont believe that Hitler existed.

And Ethelred the Unready??? Well who here has actually heard of him honestly?

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no more binary...

There's entirely too many people who don't believe that Hitler and Mussolini existed, that the Battle of the Bulge never took place (amongst the other famous conflicts there), and you know the people who said that Endor was real were the geeks who haven't seen sunlight since that one horrible day when they were five...

Seriously... the Battle of the Bulge? What the hell are these people smoking? The worst part is, its more than likely their fathers/grandfathers who were fighting in it, and now they don't even believe that it HAPPENED? If the human race were to be extinguished right now, I would not complain. Seriously. To be ignorant in such a manner is just offensive to those men who gave their lives. Sure, you don't have to know the minutia of every conflict in human history, but dear GOD at least be AWARE of them. I mean, really, 1944 was only 60 years ago, people. *sigh* The sad part is, that poll is taken in Britain, and (if the Massassi brit squad will correct me if I'm wrong) on Sept. 15th, they celebrate Battle of Britain day... I wonder how many brits think that THAT never happened.

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I dunno, Gonk, I think you're being pretty offensive to the Rorirrim who gave their lives at Helms Deep.

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Hey, if they want to look all Norse and then not have the funny horned helms, they can just kiss my shiny metal *** .

The only one I'd keep would be Eowyn, because she was hot.

Aside from that, let 'em get run over by the Oliphaunts.

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Trust me, Gonk. I know your frustration. This poll sickens me too. I bet there would be similar numbers for the children of the U.S. who are 16+

The human population does need a serious cleansing.

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hehe

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Meh you take these things too seriously. Most likely a lot of people lied about what they believe in just for the fun of it.

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Sweet irony...

I mean, really.. don't you think asking a teenager if Hitler existed is a little insulting to their intelligence? I'm pretty sure that's where the 11% came from. Out of spite.

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Yeah there's probably alot of those that were just people pretending not to know. Like at the begining of my sec4 history class the teacher passed around some questions we had to fill out so she could get a general idea of our strenghts and I pretended not to know who the prime minister of canada was.

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Who's the Prime Minister of Canada?

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BTW I thought there was a person like Robin Hood? Or someone that he was based off? And wasn't there really a King Arthur?

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I don't know about Robin Hood, but there are a lot of historians who believe that King Arthur of Camelot was based on a real person. Of course there are those who don't to... it really comes down to who you want to believe.

King Arthur was loosely based on a Celtic chieftan in around I believe the 5th century or so(may be way off there). At least some people think. It makes fine sense though, assuming most fiction is based at least a little on fact.

And there was almost a real King Arthur of England, son of Henry VII, brother to Henry VIII. Arthur died before it was his time to be king though.

[This message has been edited by Darth (edited April 06, 2004).]

It's the COMMIES I TELL YE!. Oh...yah...

Yah I saw this...really shows the great British intelligence I'm always hearing about . Seriously though, a lot of Americans would answer similarly IMO. But, it is their right. Which is why Staline should take over, NO RIGHTS, NO DON'T TAKE ME AWAY, THE WORLD MUST KNOW THE TRUTH!

*carted off*

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Considering the survey was conducted in Britain, I think this is the saddest one of all:



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Dang i wonder if they believe in BeoWolf and Grendle as well

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

You see it's idiots like these that help lower the world's perception of Britains's failing IQ levels.... (admittedly we're failing much better than previously thought, given the results here...)

Naturally, I wasn't interviewed . Good job really, as I could have sworn that the Battle for Helms Deep was real... damn those realistic computer games...

-Jackpot

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"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
But two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own"
("Ye Wearie Wayfarer" - by Adam Lindsay Gordon)

In the centuries that followed Arthur's death, fanciful histories fleshed out the few reliable facts about the 'King' with a whole body of literature that created an enduring legend. Foremost among these was the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), written in 1135 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Also in the 12th century, the monk Nennius, in his Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons) listed Arthur's battles against Germanic invaders--the Saxons and the Angles--during the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Later, in 1160, the French writer Chretien de Troyes established King Arthur as a fashionable subject of romantic literature by introducing medieval chivalry and courtly romance into the tales. Not only did de Troyes create many of the knights, including Sir Lancelot, he also used the more lyrical sounding Guinevere as the name for Arthur's queen and chose Camelot for the name of his court. It is hard to determine King Arthur's actual identity since the title Arturus he was given was less a name than simply a title meaning, "Bear."

On a related note, the story of giving Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake is likely based on an old celtic ritual in which a sword was thrown into a lake as a votive offering. Archaeologists find swords in lakes all the time.

Note: This information all came from a video game web site, Age of Kings Heaven. If I tried I could probably find information saying Hitler and Churchill were fake and one of the most important battles in Viet Nam was the battle of Helm's Deep.
So... take it with a grain of salt. I somehow doubt any of us were alive 1500 years ago, so all accounts are fallable.

I think the Cold War is more of an arguable thing. How does one define a war? When one country declares war on another? If so, we haven't been to war since WW2.

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Robin Hood was real, however the storey that is commonly known today is not.

Robin Hood was a thief and murderer whos only interest was making money.

The so-called "maid" Marien (sp?) was actually a prostitute if my memory serves me right (if not a bar wench).

As for the others charectors in the storey I cannot honestly say.


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Wait, so Britain is a real place?

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YES! Britain is a real place, although, Scotland is not. The Romans managed to convince the skirt wearing men of the time into moving to the top of our fine island and then built a wall to keep them there.

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So I'm told, Crimson - failing that, it's a rather small chunk of land just out of reach of Europe, that some of us are currently standing on

Or maybe it's just a myth. Yes a "myth" - I suppose we are the stuff of legend (even if nothing overly "exciting" has happened here recently )

-Jackpot

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"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
But two things stand in stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own"
("Ye Wearie Wayfarer" - by Adam Lindsay Gordon)

That reminds me of that gem of a movie, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.. ab-so-lute-ly brilliant/hilarious.

[paraphrase]
So, we're going to England, what do you think of that?
Well, personally i don't believe in it?
Believe in what?
England.
How can you not believe in England?
It's a hoax, a mere conspiracy of cartography..[/paraphrase]
[i apologize for having probably very badly paraphrased that..]

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I told you you were a bigot...

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