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Tango01  | 09 Aug 2024 3:54 p.m. PST |
…these Historical Stories
"Inaccurate "facts" often litter the popular perception of many historic events. Take one of the American Revolution's most iconic paintings, Washington Crossing the Delaware. It is dramatic, stirs the viewer's soul, and as such, it is great work of art. As to the accuracy of its depiction of the actual event, though, it falls short of the mark. Below are thirty things about that and other inaccurate things about history that are widely taken as true in America…"
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 20thmaine | 10 Aug 2024 12:55 a.m. PST |
Do Americans actually spend much time thinking about Socrates? I'm not American, but I barely think about him from one year's end to the next…. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 10 Aug 2024 9:19 a.m. PST |
and there I thought 20thmaine was starting a Socratic dialogue! |
| The dumb guy | 10 Aug 2024 9:51 a.m. PST |
I don't think that the Leutze painting should be described as full of lies. Inaccuracies are not lies.
Anyone who looks at it can instantly see that it's an allegory.
My church has a large painting of Jesus, with white skin and light brown hair. Is that a lie?
What about Medieval French paintings of the Trojan War showing Hector in plate and mail? Are those lies? |
| Tango01 | 10 Aug 2024 2:55 p.m. PST |
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