ZRX1200
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 1:30:56 PM
Read a public school textbook Drafter, revisionism is alive and well.
DrafterX
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 1:33:46 PM
I blame the Russians.... 😟
teedubbya
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:16:02 PM
My gramps was born in the late 1800s. Before he passed away he have me one of his old history books. Funny how his history was different than mine and my kids history is different yet.
DrafterX
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:25:17 PM
Funny..?? There should be outrage.... 😟
victor809
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:36:52 PM

Funny..?? There should be outrage.... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

Not all revisions are wrong. Some old texts/encyclopedias had some seriously wrong info in them...

DrafterX
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:37:27 PM
of course they did... 🤐 🤐
Buckwheat
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:37:34 PM

My gramps was born in the late 1800s. Before he passed away he have me one of his old history books. Funny how his history was different than mine and my kids history is different yet.

teedubbya wrote:

The winners write (and re-write) the history. 🌫

teedubbya
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:40:30 PM
I'll have to dig it out. Interesting stuff.
DrafterX
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:43:48 PM
I'm curious...... 😟

I've got a couple sets of old encyclopedias... we should pick an event and compare info... 😟

Gene363
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:07:43 PM

The winners write (and re-write) the history. 🌫

Buckwheat wrote:

And smarmy malcontent college professors with an ax to grind.

DrafterX
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:11:11 PM
ya.... those bassards...!! 😠
tailgater
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:32:27 PM

Not all revisions are wrong. Some old texts/encyclopedias had some seriously wrong info in them...

victor809 wrote:

Imagine what they'll say in a couple hundred years when they read about Global Warming!

tailgater
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:35:08 PM

My gramps was born in the late 1800s. Before he passed away he have me one of his old history books. Funny how his history was different than mine and my kids history is different yet.

teedubbya wrote:

Yeah.

Because now that we know Columbus was a dink, it makes his whole discovery thingy less meaningful.

victor809
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:49:11 PM

Imagine what they'll say in a couple hundred years when they read about Global Warming!

tailgater wrote:

You say that like they won't be underwater...

RICKAMAVEN
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:37:58 PM
it's time for me to move on to:

where ever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, i'll be there. casy knowed why,

i'll be there. whenever they's a cop beatin up a guy, i'll be there. if casey knowed,

why, i'll be there. in the way guys yell when they are mad an, i'll be there. in the way

kids laugh when they are hungry n they know supers ready. an when our folks eat the

stuff they raise, an, live in the houses they build, why, i'll be there.

henry fonda, the grapes of wrath, 1940

jackconrad
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:39:36 PM
Gee i didn't know he was a screenwriter too,,..
cacman
Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:45:22 AM

henry fonda, the grapes of wrath, 1940

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

Henry Fonda???? Really??? You can't do better than mistakenly giving credit to a Hollywood actor?

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

ZRX1200
Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:51:11 AM
Quiet, Rick is getting in on rewritting history!
DrafterX
Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:52:53 AM
🤣
Gene363
Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:13:42 AM

Henry Fonda???? Really??? You can't do better than mistakenly giving credit to a Hollywood actor?

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

cacman wrote:

Oh yeah, before the Nobel was turned into a PC participation trophy. 🐴 🐴 🐴

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