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Historical fudging...
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Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:00:12 GMT
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Southwest/12/17/ezekiel.aircraft/index.html
And another story from last week that said, iirc, someone in Italy was the
first to fly, and not the Wright brothers.
This is much akin to the little fiasco a few months back about denouncing G
Bell as the original inventor of the telephone.
Look folks, after 100 years of nothing, coming up and saying *now* that
these folks were not the first to do these things... I mean, to fix
historical inaccuracies is one thing, but to say "Well so and so flew but we
lost the plane and all proof but he flew a year before the Wright
brothers..." just bugs me.
It's like a National Enquirer article--"Baby born with two tails"--yeah,
well, whatever.
Dave K
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Historical fudging...
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| Oh dear, we wouldn't want the americans to be beaten at something, now would we... For a few centuries everyone believed good 'ole Cristopher was the first european to find America. Now we know better: the vikings beat him by some four centuries, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) According to the National Park Service, the Wright brothers had the "first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine" ((URL) I don't think the official history actually claims they were "the first to fly", as that (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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