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re: What's the biggest myth, you were taught in school as being fact?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:14 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:14 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Wow, who actually was the first European?
Leif Ericsson.
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:14 pm to TeLeFaWx
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:16 pm to Alahunter
To the OP, one myth that I was taught was that we actually vote for the POTUS.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:16 pm to Gradual_Stroke
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Or that evolution is a myth
My high school biology teacher had to read a thing talking about how evolution was just one of many theories before we learned about evolution... after which someone said, "but evolution is real, right?" And she just said, "of course". And then we learned about genetics and shite.
I imagine that scenario never happens in lots of places down South.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:16 pm to Carolina Tide
I've heard the Vikings theory before. Any conrete proof? And the Romans is a New one to me. Might have to research that.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:17 pm to Carolina Tide
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The Vikings. But actually there have been Roman coins discovered here, so maybe even the Romans.
Wasn't there a Chinese boat discovered in Mexcio at some point as well?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:18 pm to TeLeFaWx
I don't know about Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana, but evolution was covered pretty extensively in South Carolina. At least at my high school.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:19 pm to Carolina Tide
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I don't know about Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana, but evolution was covered pretty extensively in South Carolina. At least at my high school.
Well in Mississippi its either a private school with some religious affiliation, or the worst public education in the Union.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:19 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Wasn't there a Chinese boat discovered in Mexcio at some point as well?
No, it was a Portuguese ship.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:20 pm to Carolina Tide
Ya, I never got churched up at any of my school's growing up in Alabama
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:21 pm to Carolina Tide
Yeah, we learned evolution in middle and high school in Alabama, but this was over 20 years ago before the right-wing nutjobs lost their minds. I don't recall there being much debate over it.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:21 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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I've heard the Vikings theory before. Any conrete proof? And the Romans is a New one to me. Might have to research that.
Just what I learned about Lief Ericson. Also I heard the Roman one from one of those crazy fact books.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:21 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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No, it was a Portuguese ship.
Lol.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:23 pm to The Spleen
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Yeah, we learned evolution in middle and high school in Alabama, but this was over 20 years ago before the right-wing nutjobs lost their minds. I don't recall there being much debate over it.
Good for Alabama.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:27 pm to Carolina Tide
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The Vikings. But actually there have been Roman coins discovered here, so maybe even the Romans.
They've also found cocaine in Egyptian tombs. I have a feeling that at least one group of Westerners if not more went to America before the Vikings.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:27 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Good for Alabama.
There was a Baptist church in town that was always trying to get books removed from the school library though.
Trying to remember which books. The only ones I remember are Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter. There was a list of about 20 or so though.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:28 pm to The Spleen
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Trying to remember which books. The only ones I remember are Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter. There was a list of about 20 or so though.
My cousin went to a Baptist school in Oklahoma and the teachers paddled him for reading Harry Potter. This was like 10 years ago, probably right around when the third one came out.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:29 pm to OMLandshark
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They've also found cocaine in Egyptian tombs. I have a feeling that at least one group of Westerners if not more went to America before the Vikings.
But Columbus was not the first, that we can be sure of.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:29 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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I've heard the Vikings theory before. Any conrete proof? And the Romans is a New one to me. Might have to research that.
Its a concrete fact that the Vikings did. Plenty of evidence to support it. The Vikings just didn't know what they had stumbled on.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 6:30 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Wasn't there a Chinese boat discovered in Mexcio at some point as well?
I believe Japanese actually, and there's proof of some Japanese interference in the southwest as well. It's still crazy how little we actually know.
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