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HistBusters: February 2009
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Monday, February 16, 2009. Creepy Assassination Coincidences.Or Are They? This myth has been debunked to death, but its a good one, so I am going to debunk it again.my thanks (and apologies) to all of those who have already done it. There is a list constantly doing the rounds of so-called 'coincidences' between the assassinations of JFK and Abe Lincoln. When you first read them, the similarities do seem uncanny. A spot of further analysis, though, soon puts them into perspective. So does Bill Clinton's!
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HistBusters: October 2008
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Thursday, October 30, 2008. Hi folks. It's been a while since last I wrote, and there are many topics on my mind for the next few Histbusters. But today I am feeling very contemporary, so I thought I'd answer a couple of myths currently doing the rounds. 1 Is Barack Obama a Muslim? This isn't even a real question. All the shock jocks in the US are implying it is true, as though the implication. Barack Obama is a committed Christian, not a Muslim. However.one, perhaps more interesting myth. That's enough ...
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HistBusters: May 2008
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Friday, May 30, 2008. One lump or two? Hitler, has only got one ball. The other is in the Albert Hall. Himmler, has something sim'lar. And poor old Goebbels, has no balls, at all. We've all heard that ditty - or a variation on it - at some point, probably in some god-awful World War Two film where the Brits have stiff upper lips and a doughty, pipe-smoking officer, and the Nazis are all.well, a bit shit. Basis in fact. I mean, Hitler did. Have only one testicle, didn't he? 1) Hitler only had one ball.
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HistBusters: May 2009
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Sunday, May 3, 2009. I've been a bit slack of late, failing to update the old Histbusters blog for some months. It's not that there has been a lack of juicy history myths out there, just that I couldn't be arsed. But here I am, back to dissect and probe into one of my favourite little legends - the curious case of Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, completely-and-utterly fucked up leader of the Central African Republic (or Empire, as he called it from '76 until '79). Tensions arose between Dacko and Bokassa, an...
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HistBusters: Creepy Assassination Coincidences...Or Are They?
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Monday, February 16, 2009. Creepy Assassination Coincidences.Or Are They? This myth has been debunked to death, but its a good one, so I am going to debunk it again.my thanks (and apologies) to all of those who have already done it. There is a list constantly doing the rounds of so-called 'coincidences' between the assassinations of JFK and Abe Lincoln. When you first read them, the similarities do seem uncanny. A spot of further analysis, though, soon puts them into perspective. So does Bill Clinton's!
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HistBusters: June 2009
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Thursday, June 4, 2009. So, who's your favourite Nazi? Is it Himmler, the sadistic chicken farmer with that silly little hey-fuhrer-look-at-me-I'm-just-like-you moustache, and fanatical hatred of the Jews? Or Hess, who thought he could fly to Scotland and single-handedly end the war, but who ended up in jail until 1987, when he hung himself, a broken 93-year old man? Perhaps it is Goering, the obese, drug-addled former flying ace, who had a penchant for silk uniforms and looting. It was Speer who was res...
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HistBusters: Quantum Theory
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Thursday, November 20, 2008. Those people who know me are probably well aware that I'm something of a James Bond tragic. Whether its Sean, George, Roger, Tim, Pierce, or Daniel appearing in the film, I suck them down like three measures of gin, plus one of vodka, poured over half a measure of Kina Lillet, shaken till ice-cold, and served with a large, thin slice of lemon peel. I watched Quantum of Solace. However, once I watched the movies again, I realised how far from the truth this was. Far from b...
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I Swear This is a Positive Step | The Angry Atheist
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I Swear This is a Positive Step. June 26, 2010 at 4:06 pm Posted in christianity. Many people are marvelling at the fact that our new Prime Minister is a woman. Many more seem to be marvelling at the fact she is a redhead. I, however, am marvelling at the simple fact that she took her oath of office without a Bible in her hand. I have never understood the swearing of oaths on holy books. Why do people need to touch 1000-pages of bronze age mythology to prove that they can be trusted? 4 Comments ». She wo...
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HistBusters: The Cannibal Emperor?
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Sunday, May 3, 2009. I've been a bit slack of late, failing to update the old Histbusters blog for some months. It's not that there has been a lack of juicy history myths out there, just that I couldn't be arsed. But here I am, back to dissect and probe into one of my favourite little legends - the curious case of Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, completely-and-utterly fucked up leader of the Central African Republic (or Empire, as he called it from '76 until '79). Tensions arose between Dacko and Bokassa, an...
