T.E. Lawrence apparently got a First in Modern History at Oxford while referring to only one date in his exams: 1066 (the date of the Norman Conquest). Everything else was, "Some time before 1066." "Shortly after 1066." And so forth.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This kind of reminds of a really cool sci-fi story I
> read recently, I can't recollect the title, but the
> premise was that sometime around 2050 or so
> civilization collapsed and, through liberal use of
> pseudoscientific handwavium, all electronic records
> were lost.
>
> Several hundred years later, anthropologists visit
> North America and attempt to recontruct the history
> of
> the United States through the oral histories of the
> Americans. The end result is the tale of General
> Washington (General is his first name), who, through
> the aid of his magic sword Valleyforge and enchanted
> scarf of stars given him by the sorceress Betsyross,
> and with the aid of the great French hero Charles
> Lafayette Degaul (formerly of the Three Musketeers),
> does battle against the British, their Red Army and
> their American Native allies.
>
> At one point they do battle with a three-headed
> mountain.
>
> --- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't the kid who wrote this have been born in
> > 19-something too?
> >
> > via Sam Smith:
> >
> >
> >
> > WORLD WAR II: A HIGH SCHOOL VIEW
> >
> > [Answers from a quiz on WWII at Burton High School
> > in San Francisco]
> >
> > World War II took place in 19-something, when
> > Theodore Roosevelt was
> > president and the Germans claimed to be the best
> > race.
> >
> > Hoping to aid Third World countries, the United
> > States joined the war to
> > stop racism and end the dispute over Jews.
> >
> > The head of the Nazis was a killer named Hitler
> > whose evil partner,
> > Mussolini, was president of the USSR. Ultimately,
> > the war ended with the
> > bombing of Iwo Jima and Hitler's suicide. Then a
> > treaty was signed.
> >
> >
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/02/BA61S87F0.DTL
> >
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