It is. H1N1 has killed more infants so far this season than the flu normally kills the entire season.The King of Rock and Roll said:
Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School
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Not homosexuals. And not teenaged girls who've been raped by their fathers (depending upon the state).Draco Kaiser said:
There are but they all only exist as computer models and I don't recall the names of any of them from when I took socioeconomics because they had designations not 'name names'. The problem with them is that you need a society like that in A Brave New World to make them work because too many people would lose their jobs and wealth under these systems to start using them now without having to round up people and kill them.Mimsofthedawg said:
The rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone can take your life away, but they don't have the right to.funguy2121 said:
I just learned this a month ago. Essentialy, Russia had an aliance with Serbia, and Austria-hungary was attempting to annex Serbia. The Arch Duke Franz Ferdinan, heir to the Austrian throne, visited Serbia. He was assassinated by some Serbian ultra-nationalists. Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia declared war on Austria, germany backed up Austria by declaring on Russia...you get the point.aruseusx said:
I thought it was called food.somelameshite said:
OT: Our history teacher tried to tell us that the battle of Marathon was AFTER the battle of Thermopylae.
He is right, However, If Britain won the war of 1812, The US would be under British rule and have would have lost their independence. America wonCheeze_Pavilion said:There basically was no such thing as Canada in 1812--there was Upper and Lower Canada. It's the War of 1812 that put 'Canadians' on the road to becoming Canada.Berethond said:Canada was part of Britain...Haseo21 said:hahahaha! Who the hell taught you?! The war of 1812 was between America and Britain, Canada just fought on Britains side.
I am still out of breath from laughing so hard because you said that. LOL
The Commonwealth would not exist for another 100 years.Ygfi said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations#Origins
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Imperial_and_Commonwealth_Conferences
Well, most of what I've noticed has come from history/political studies, being that that is the only subject I only truly care for, and what isn't a blatant lie is an omission. A few things I knew before I heard of lies my teacher told me.
America had a huge eugenics program, for those who do not know, eugenics is essentially the concept of selective breeding applied to human beings. American governments (some of these were state governments) actually had about 30,000 or so people forcibly sterilized to prevent them from passing on their genes. Its most... famous practitioners were the Nazis, the science of eugenics was discredited when evidence of what exactly the Nazis had been up to was uncovered.
The story of Washington and the Cherry Tree was made up, yes I know that most people know that, but I was taught that was fact when I was a kid.
The French and Indian War was started by George Washington.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate territories, and Lincoln wasn't so much about immediately destroying slavery so much as containing it, which was a popular abolitionist viewpoint at the time, and to be fair, immediate abolition could really have screwed up the economy.
Martin Luther got really anti-semitic when he got older.
Thomas More, the so-called hero who stood up to King Henry VIII when Henry wanted to divorce Katherine of Eragon advocated the execution of heretics.
(300 has a lot to do with this) The Spartans kept slaves and had sexual intercourse with children, the Persians had the first ever declaration of human rights and were one of the most socially advanced civilizations of their time, talk about getting the sides wrong.
(kind of an easy one) Pirates were far from the romanticized versions we see today, they were bloodthirsty rapists who sought plunder and conquest of a different sort.
(in response to the belief that the Middle East has always been some mudhole of terrorism and oil) The Middle East was a huge foundation for Western medical systems, and many things that the Middle Easterners invented, such as algebra, laid the foundation for the rise of Europe and revolutions in science.
Joan of Arc was a violent fanatic.
The American colonists paid less in taxes than people in Britain, but still rebelled over it.
FDR was afraid for his reputation if word got out that he had polio, he went to great lengths to hide said polio, however, disability rights groups insisted that a statue of him was made with him in his wheelchair.
Benjamin Franklin, oh my dear God Benjamin Franklin. Cracked tells me that the kite experiment never happened, the experiment as it is shown is just a fancy way to kill yourself. Franklin also had a mad fetish for absolutely anything with breasts and died at age 82 from syphilis that he contracted from a French prostitute.
A lot of education on Nazi Germany and other places of that nature loves to gloss over the good things they did and focus on the bad, I consider that to be unreasonable, if they did nothing but eat babies and kill ethnic minorities, then how did they ever come to power?
America was actually one of the last nations to abolish slavery, France and Britain really lead the way in terms of abolition, Britain even went so far as to track down slave-trading ships and set the captives free.
Mentioned already on the thread but... Woodrow Wilson endorsed slavery, hated black suffrage, and once referred to the Ku Klux Klan as "a veritable empire of the South to protect the Southern economy".
It wasn't until 1776 that the American Revolution became about independence, that's right, at Bunker Hill, the colonists were still fighting for their rights as Englishmen.
America had a huge eugenics program, for those who do not know, eugenics is essentially the concept of selective breeding applied to human beings. American governments (some of these were state governments) actually had about 30,000 or so people forcibly sterilized to prevent them from passing on their genes. Its most... famous practitioners were the Nazis, the science of eugenics was discredited when evidence of what exactly the Nazis had been up to was uncovered.
The story of Washington and the Cherry Tree was made up, yes I know that most people know that, but I was taught that was fact when I was a kid.
The French and Indian War was started by George Washington.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate territories, and Lincoln wasn't so much about immediately destroying slavery so much as containing it, which was a popular abolitionist viewpoint at the time, and to be fair, immediate abolition could really have screwed up the economy.
Martin Luther got really anti-semitic when he got older.
Thomas More, the so-called hero who stood up to King Henry VIII when Henry wanted to divorce Katherine of Eragon advocated the execution of heretics.
(300 has a lot to do with this) The Spartans kept slaves and had sexual intercourse with children, the Persians had the first ever declaration of human rights and were one of the most socially advanced civilizations of their time, talk about getting the sides wrong.
(kind of an easy one) Pirates were far from the romanticized versions we see today, they were bloodthirsty rapists who sought plunder and conquest of a different sort.
(in response to the belief that the Middle East has always been some mudhole of terrorism and oil) The Middle East was a huge foundation for Western medical systems, and many things that the Middle Easterners invented, such as algebra, laid the foundation for the rise of Europe and revolutions in science.
Joan of Arc was a violent fanatic.
The American colonists paid less in taxes than people in Britain, but still rebelled over it.
FDR was afraid for his reputation if word got out that he had polio, he went to great lengths to hide said polio, however, disability rights groups insisted that a statue of him was made with him in his wheelchair.
Benjamin Franklin, oh my dear God Benjamin Franklin. Cracked tells me that the kite experiment never happened, the experiment as it is shown is just a fancy way to kill yourself. Franklin also had a mad fetish for absolutely anything with breasts and died at age 82 from syphilis that he contracted from a French prostitute.
A lot of education on Nazi Germany and other places of that nature loves to gloss over the good things they did and focus on the bad, I consider that to be unreasonable, if they did nothing but eat babies and kill ethnic minorities, then how did they ever come to power?
America was actually one of the last nations to abolish slavery, France and Britain really lead the way in terms of abolition, Britain even went so far as to track down slave-trading ships and set the captives free.
Mentioned already on the thread but... Woodrow Wilson endorsed slavery, hated black suffrage, and once referred to the Ku Klux Klan as "a veritable empire of the South to protect the Southern economy".
It wasn't until 1776 that the American Revolution became about independence, that's right, at Bunker Hill, the colonists were still fighting for their rights as Englishmen.
No it's not the regular flu kills 36,000 Americans now that's just Americans it kills between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide annually, the swine flu since it was announced has killed less that 5000 all victims of the swine flu where on there death beds already the elderly the infirm and newborn children born with health problems.funguy2121 said:
Partially true actually bee's wings on there own cant generate enough down force to lift them off the ground instead what they do is beat there wings at different times which actually creates a vortex beneath them which allows them t fly...sort of.Worgen said:
