things your history textbook got wrong

[Polska rzczpolspolita]

Huh. Really?
Not that I know of. Mostly the support for the American Revolution. I mostly attribute that to a tax rebellion.

To say the truth, I don't take history textbooks that seriously, many times, history seems very objective at times.

Yes. History is objective by your point of view. Thats life, I suppose.

[Niur]

Which things?

He was referencing the post above him, I think.

Well then he'd be wrong. Blood ain't blue, it just looks that way. And you have taste buds everywhere on your tounge.

[Novograd IV]

He was referencing the post above him, I think.

Well then he'd be wrong. Blood ain't blue, it just looks that way. And you have taste buds everywhere on your tounge.

Blue is a colour

And we had a GCSE paper on the tongue thing, if we have 'areas' of taste, then we certainly aren't capable of telling where they are.

[Niur]

Well then he'd be wrong. Blood ain't blue, it just looks that way. And you have taste buds everywhere on your tounge.

Blue is a colour

And we had a GCSE paper on the tongue thing, if we have 'areas' of taste, then we certainly aren't capable of telling where they are.

No Blue is not a color. More so, by that I mean that if you were to take out the blood from a vein and put it immediatly in a vacuum, so that it never touched oxygen,m it wouldn't be this "blue" you speak of. It is dark red, with maybe a hint of violet. Veins appear blue because the subcutaneous fat absorbs low-frequency light, permitting only the highly energetic blue wavelengths to penetrate through to the dark vein and reflect off. And although certain areas of the tounge are slightly more sesitive to some tastes than others, all five tastes can be tasted anywhere on the top of the tounge.

[Novograd IV]

Blue is a colour

And we had a GCSE paper on the tongue thing, if we have 'areas' of taste, then we certainly aren't capable of telling where they are.

No Blue is not a color. More so, by that I mean that if you were to take out the blood from a vein and put it immediatly in a vacuum, so that it never touched oxygen,m it wouldn't be this "blue" you speak of. It is dark red, with maybe a hint of violet. Veins appear blue because the subcutaneous fat absorbs low-frequency light, permitting only the highly energetic blue wavelengths to penetrate through to the dark vein and reflect off. And although certain areas of the tounge are slightly more sesitive to some tastes than others, all five tastes can be tasted anywhere on the top of the tounge.

But it is.

Also, I never said anything other than the fact that blue is a colour

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

The pullout method works.

[Angleter]

Maps. History textbooks never get maps right.

[Novikov]

Maps. History textbooks never get maps right.

This is very true.

[Niur]

No Blue is not a color. More so, by that I mean that if you were to take out the blood from a vein and put it immediatly in a vacuum, so that it never touched oxygen,m it wouldn't be this "blue" you speak of. It is dark red, with maybe a hint of violet. Veins appear blue because the subcutaneous fat absorbs low-frequency light, permitting only the highly energetic blue wavelengths to penetrate through to the dark vein and reflect off. And although certain areas of the tounge are slightly more sesitive to some tastes than others, all five tastes can be tasted anywhere on the top of the tounge.

But it is.

Also, I never said anything other than the fact that blue is a colour

No. That's wrong. Blue is not a color. Saying such is heretical. No.. Thats not right?............

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[EvilDarkMagicians]

The nucleus is the brain of the cell.
Through Primary and Secondary we were told this.
As soon as we got to A-level we got shouted at for even mentioning this.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

The pullout method works.

Was it per chance the Catholic Guide to holy coitus?

[Arkinesia]

I remember my last history textbook waxed eloquent about how the US Army was completely raped by the Viet Cong.

I have no idea where the author got that impression.

[Coccygia]

My first history book, from the early 2000's, from Japan, says that nothing happened in Nanking in 1937.

Oh, Nanking was just asking for it in that tight little skirt.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Anything to do with the Partition of India.

[Munathanura]

1) That the Japanese were going to invade Australia
2) That all Australians deliberately set out to massacre the Aboriginal people without exception and that the missions never helped the Aboriginals in any way, shape or form. Ever.
3) That the only noteworthy explorers were those who died from sheer stupidity or who disappeared mysteriously. Those who never loose a man despite exploring first extremely arid terrain and then braving the crocodiles of the Northern Territory and who manage to do all this despite travelling cumulative total of 11 995 km by land should no be mentioned at all.

The IJA did have plans for invasion as Austrailia was a huge thorn in the side of the empire. They did take over New Guinea capturing 15,000 Austrailion troops and if they had not engaged the United States an invasion would have commenced.

Nope, they examined the possibility and then decided that it would take too many men and resources to invaded and hold Australia, men who were needed either in the Pacific or who were needed in China. New Guinea, which is actually where Australia halted the Japanese army for the first time and then proceeded to beat them, was part of an attempt to isolate Australia from America. To quote Tojo:

We never had enough troops to do so [invade Australia]. We had already far out-stretched our lines of communication. We did not have the armed strength or the supply facilities to mount such a terrific extension of our already over-strained and too thinly spread forces. We expected to occupy all New Guinea, to maintain Rabaul as a holding base, and to raid Northern Australia by air. But actual physical invasion — no, at no time.

(Source, page 19)

Furthermore, conflict with the USA was always going to be on the cards. America had wanted to clip Japan's wings for some time, and their cutting of oil exports to Japan was the first step in doing so. Without the American oil, Japan was forced to invaded the Dutch East Indies in order for its military to survive, and they had to invaded American and British territories to do so. America might have been a bit slower going to the war than IRL if Pearl Harbour hadn't happened, but they still would have gone.

[Marcheria]

My first history book, from the early 2000's, from Japan, says that nothing happened in Nanking in 1937.

Oh, Nanking was just asking for it in that tight little skirt.

They were......better not let my Chinese GF see this...

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

Apparently, Canada has never done anything important ever. Holding off invasions by Americans during the American Revolution and War of 1812? Boer War? Vimy Ridge and the Hundred Days? Being on every single fucking front save one in World War II (even North Africa: Operation Reservist, part of Operation Torch, was led by a Canadian, who won a Victoria Cross for it)? Korean War? UN Peacekeeping? What are those?

Yeah, fuck my textbooks. And people wonder why I prefer to read history books I've bought instead of the school textbooks, or do the shitty schoolwork...

[Munathanura]

Apparently, Canada has never done anything important ever. Holding off invasions by Americans during the American Revolution and War of 1812? Boer War? Vimy Ridge and the Hundred Days? Being on every single fucking front save one in World War II (even North Africa: Operation Reservist, part of Operation Torch, was led by a Canadian, who won a Victoria Cross for it)? Korean War? UN Peacekeeping? What are those?

Yeah, fuck my textbooks. And people wonder why I prefer to read history books I've bought instead of the school textbooks, or do the shitty schoolwork...

Seriously? Wow, that sucks. At least Australian textbooks take some pride in our history, even if they do leave out interesting stuff like the Rum Rebellion.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

Apparently, Canada has never done anything important ever. Holding off invasions by Americans during the American Revolution and War of 1812? Boer War? Vimy Ridge and the Hundred Days? Being on every single fucking front save one in World War II (even North Africa: Operation Reservist, part of Operation Torch, was led by a Canadian, who won a Victoria Cross for it)? Korean War? UN Peacekeeping? What are those?

Yeah, fuck my textbooks. And people wonder why I prefer to read history books I've bought instead of the school textbooks, or do the shitty schoolwork...

Seriously? Wow, that sucks. At least Australian textbooks take some pride in our history, even if they do leave out interesting stuff like the Rum Rebellion.

For some reason, Canadian schools, or at least the Alberta Board of Education, hate our military and want us to look like a land of pacifists.

[Munathanura]

Seriously? Wow, that sucks. At least Australian textbooks take some pride in our history, even if they do leave out interesting stuff like the Rum Rebellion.

For some reason, Canadian schools, or at least the Alberta Board of Education, hate our military and want us to look like a land of pacifists.

Argh, I hate it when people do that. It's as though they don't want to admit just how much war has shaped and altered culture.

*shakes head*

[Seleucas]

Thermopylae was a huge defeat for Sparta, demonstrating how worthless their army was, and Athens was attacked unprovoked in the Peloponnesian War because all the other Greek city-states were "jealous" of how great the peace-loving Athenians were.

lol

[JuNii]

any history book that paints an image that somehow, ancient Hawaiians actually lived a life that made people WANT to live that way.

all these seperationists that spout "We want to live how our ancistors did." makes me think "Do you KNOW how they lived back then?"

[Hathradic States]

That the SS stood for "Storm Troopers".

[Distruzio]

That George Washington was a great general.

That the USS Maine was sunk by Spain.

That Lincoln freed the slaves.

That the political results of the Great War was a step forward for civilization.

That speculators caused the Great Depression.

That WW2 ended the Great Depression.

That the Japanese attacked unprovoked.

That Korea was a victory.

That Bretton-Woods was a success.

That child labor laws ended child labor.

That Unions ensured a more humane workplace environment.

That the Robber Barons fleeced the public.

That Standard Oil was essentially evil.

That white people were racists.

That europeans were to blame for all the evil of the world.

That africans are helpless.

That communists are misunderstood.

That the Japanese would be lost without America.

That Southrons want slavery back.

That Jesus was a christian.

[Marcurix]

That those damn Americans won the war of 1812.

Lies and slander.

That WW2 ended the Great Depression.

to be fair, it helped.

That Korea was a victory.

depends on what you were aiming for.

That Unions ensured a more humane workplace environment.

some did, I think, at one point.