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Well, tonight my head exploded. Yours can too, if you click on the links and "learn" about the New Chronology of Anatoly Fomenko.
You will discover some pretty interesting "facts" :
- History only goes back to 800 CE!
- Sumeria, ancient Egypt & Greece, and the Roman Empire were all medieval fabrications!
- Jerusalem, Constantinople and Rome are the same city!
- Solomon's temple is the Hagia Sophia!
- Jesus and Gregory the Great were the same person! Plus he/they lived c.1000 CE!
- The New Testament was written before the Old!
You'll have to excuse me now. I need to go lie down. I have a headache, what with my head exploding and all.
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With Hillary's announcement today, some critics pointed out that if she gets the nomination and wins (two big, big ifs), our recent history could be summarized as follows: "Bush - Clinton - Bush - Clinton." These people cry out in indignation and ask, do we really want this sequence to occupy twenty-four years (or more!) of our history books?
However, alas for their argument, because we've been there, done that. In the first half of the twentieth century (1900-1950), we had thirteen Presidential elections, and as it so happens, a Roosevelt was on the ballot in eight of them (1900, 1904, 1912, 1920, 1932, 1936, 1940, & 1944). They won six of 'em, too; just shy of half.
All other issues aside, it's a bit late in our imperial history to be handwringing about the establishment of Presidential dynasties.
Earlier I posted a link about Communist jokes; as a followup, Nazi jokes. (IIRC, Shirer made most of the same points here in a couple of throwaway paragraphs in Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.)
If it had been a snake it would have bitten them.
Oh. Wait. That didn't come out right . . .
Update: Original Discovery article is gone; replaced with London Times equivalent.
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