"My favorite is the Piligrims were seeking "religious freedom"

Or that they were "fleeing religious oppression." No, they weren't. They were thrown out everywhere they went because they tried to oppress others. Just like they are doing now.

-- roger3815 "

yeah, yeah, yeah

NOW - pilgrim's fav: tie up that bitch & dunk her into the river - teach her a lesson for having a sexy nose...

christ! lord! get back in that cell, nigger!

"Stone her to death!" - common witch trial phrase uttered at 16th century New England

><>><><<><>><><< (yes, that's right: paradiddles)

wasps sometimes even come in to my apartment to sting me...

it's true, really

admittedly, I live>> upstairs room of the house, near some large trees (tree wasps : more metaphor?)

><>><><< (one double-paradiddle)

but seriously, I wanted to say this about that, um, KIDS & HISTORY

not really a good mix, eh?

I hated history, as a kid

only started liking it when past age 35 , strange?

maybe ><>> not

maybe, absolutely natural ><>><><< think about it

further, I never have, nor will I ever, force (any kind of) learning on my own child

other people's children better look out, though (joke)

I don't know, but history study is almost as tedious as science/math

Note: it may simply be that old people are generally psychotic

something about evolution, and earlier deaths: no medicine for the first 99.999999999999999999999999 percent of the history of the species -- makes us

w i e r d, for better or for worse

one more: speaking of the history of the species: naw, never mind

um, the old people hypothesis doesn't explain young academics, though

I do have an excuse, though, for not being as studious as I should have been during my youth: honors classes up to 10th grade, then high school drop out

that is, I was good at, and played much classical piano

hmmm

I highly recommend (to parents) encouraging this to your children, thus taking the place of more less-important study, such as academics - i.e. liberal arts over academics, yeah!

I just wrote 'more less-important'

good for me

Yeah, David Lloyd George

Palled around with the other terrorists, Balfour and Churchill.

Check out what that gang did to the current map of Palestine.

Those years 1917 through 1948 that resulted from at least the PERCEPTION , if not actualization of Western rightists' agendae (Including Israel and the Shah) made, not just the 20th century wrong but the current century as well.

Maybe the Germa post-war suffering was not 100% as bad as we were taught, but Versaille certainly did psychologically inform events 1933 through 1945 to the bad.

Plaid, symbolic kilts were standard gear for non Brit keltic cultures, just not quite as encyclopaedic as the Scottish Gift Counter lobby advertizes. Plaid and cloaked dress does have some historical reality- we all know it's overdone, Scots-wise- as a black pudding cooked over high heat too long.

South Tyrol was not mentioned, but all Lloyd-George apologists do that! Churchy's hugest sin wasn't Galipoli , it was the Levant. His (American) mother was, to her credit, heavilly tatooed.

Cyrus was really more bad than good, Nero truly was a freak. Catherine wasn't, as we were taught , an Equa-erotica and The Dalai Lama is NOT, repeat NOT a vegetarian.

The jury is still out on the Chinese needle containing a secret compartment for even tinier needles (gifted to Marco Polo by one of Kublai's sons (per tradition).

But the book has the stories we mostly already know.

Ms McM. wrote a book good for showing how to skeptic about, just some of her skepticism wound up the way most history (ever revised) always winds up- about 50% accurate. A coin flip.

Go into archive on the link provided for non granddaughtered facts on the Versailles Treaty