"About King Alfred" Topic

"In the fall of 1991, the relatively small and quiet university of Alfred University in New York State was engrossed in controversy. Indignant professors led students in protests, heated debates raged throughout the divided campus, editorials filled the school and local papers. At the heart of the controversy was the newly-installed statue of King Alfred, the medieval English monarch after whom the town and school was named. Ten years prior, when the monument was commissioned, no one could foresee the controversy it would eventually cause. Yet, its placement offended the sensibilities of the university's history professors.

By the strong and negative reaction one would think that Alfred must have been a tyrant, an oppressor of his people, a man deserving of the title Alfred the Terrible. Surprisingly, it is the opposite that that is true…"
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Armand

I weep for our future. However, I think DWEM, or Dwem, will be the name I give a Lich Lord I'm working on.

Better a DWEM than a dweeb.

This is why it is important to know the political views of your sources because they will be biased towards those views. I recently read a book by a well known Tudor fan which used the argument hat there was no written evidence proved that Richard III had murdered the Princes in the Tower, whilst the same lack of written evidence proved that Henry VII hadn't murdered them. If I'd submitted arguments like that as part of my degree work I'd have been kicked out.

The political view of the article was more akin to a strawman-creating demogogic diatribe about supposed "political correctness" than a serious examination of any real problem.

The topic and article really should be posted here in TMP, it provides nothing for the miniatures enthusiast community.