Lies My Teacher Told Me -
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
I think I got most of the errors, let me know if I missed any. -steele
All posts by machpi
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Wednesday, 14 March 2018
quote [ The Man Who Knew Too Little
The most ignorant man in America knows that Donald Trump is president — but that’s about it. ]
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Saturday, 24 December 2016
quote [ A businesswoman whom her lover has just left undertakes to take revenge. She enters the household of her former lover by passing for a chambermaid and builds a plan leading to her financial ruin. ]
Also called 'Evil Mistress' in English dubs (which one can find, although I failed today).
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016
quote [ A guide to the scariest astronomical phenomenon observed in the universe. ]
It was right what Jane done to them brown-eyed kids
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Thursday, 13 October 2016
quote [ It was now mid-August, which meant that he had been separated from Marsha for more than two months. Two months, and all he had to show were three dog-eared letters and two very expensive long distance phone calls. ]
I knew I'd heard that 'octopus' phrase somewhere before
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Thursday, 22 May 2014
quote [ The as-yet unnamed creature, referred to simply as the Giant by the researchers, is estimated to have been about 20m tall, 40m long and 77 tons in weight, about the same as 14 African elephants. ]
The key words are "as yet unnamed."
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All in all, though, my life is much better since I gave up following the news cycle.