Five Historical Lies: Columbus, Vikings, Napoleon, Vomitoria & Lady Godiva
Misconceptions about Vikings, Lady Godiva, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Roman Vomitoria, and Christopher Columbus cleared up by C.G.P Grey.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." George Santayana -
Philosopher (1863 - 1952)
Here are a few more: Nero did not fiddle as Rome burned because the fiddle or violin wasn’t invented until the 16th century.
The Bastille was stormed because the crowd wanted to get at its store of gunpowder. Its political prisoners actually lived in comfortable quarters.
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