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  1. Vargas Fan

    History Myths and Misconceptions of History you Hate

    One that does get me is when there's debates about Israel/Palestine, people bringing up "Palestine was a British colony", wrong it was a League of Nations mandated territory administered by Britain, in the same way that Syria was a League territory administered by the French. Another thing, two...
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    History Myths and Misconceptions of History you Hate

    The entire idea that Operation Sea Lion could have worked if it hadn't been for those blasted kids in the RAF (and Fleet Air Arm). Sea Lion was a disaster of a plan and was extremely unlikely to have worked. The Wehrmacht was also depending on the deployment of parachutists from Ju-52/3m...
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    History Myths and Misconceptions of History you Hate

    There is another Bruce related film out, called simply, "Robert the Bruce", American produced. The SNP have been apparently using it as propaganda material at times and it does not get a great reputation. Outlaw King as far as I can make out is far superior.
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    History Myths and Misconceptions of History you Hate

    Incidentally, I believe Randall Wallace is meant to be descended from the family of William Wallace, and I made the Pearl Harbor comparison and he was the screen writer there....soooooo
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    History Myths and Misconceptions of History you Hate

    There is a film called Outlaw King, which I haven't seen but is meant to be reasonably good. However Braveheart has major problems like the use of kilts (which didn't yet exist), blue face paint (which had fallen out of fashion), showing the Scots as having no mounted forces to speak of and...
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    History Myths and Misconceptions of History you Hate

    People that treat Braveheart as a documentary. There are more historical inaccuracies in that film than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor.
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