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Have you heard of King George's drug habit and the redemption he
found with his cousin? Did you know Emperor Zhuanxuhad a habit
of
sneaking out at night to fight crime? The love triangle between
Truman, his wife, and his secret male lover? If you haven't it's
probably because these things never
happened. But if they did a
good deal of story telling could be done around their lives.
People like light, fluffy, entertaining, and dramatic stories.
Historians want people to learn history, but they only tell dry,
factual
accounts. Even the many very real and highly entertaining facts
about historical places and happenstances get buried in un-fun
trivia.
I propose a version of history watered down and sexed up until 14
year old boys are sneaking copies of "The Spanish Empire" into the
bathroom. Learn they shall, and who cares about whether they
learn
all the trivia just right if they end up acing history classes and
learning useful things?
Like this idea but it's history and he thought of it first
Intelligent_20Pornography
Nevertheless I like the idea so much I'm going to leave it up [Voice, Feb 15 2015]
Amadeus (1984) Official Trailer
https://www.youtube...watch?v=r7kWQj9FCGY
[Voice, Mar 28 2021]
History of the World, Part I
https://en.wikipedi...f_the_World,_Part_I
[theircompetitor, Mar 29 2021]
The Flashman Papers
https://en.wikipedi...The_Flashman_Papers
Almost exactly what Voice is calling for. But limited to the Victorian age. When Britain was Great & everyone else knew it! [DrBob, Mar 30 2021]
QI
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380136/
Sex, humour and facts, tempered by occaisonal myth [wjt, Apr 02 2021]
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Plenty of sex in history already...just ask Ben Franklin
or Ghengis Khan. |
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/ Historians want people to learn history, but they only tell dry, factual accounts. / |
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Perhaps you should try reading something other than School Board Approved texts. Diaries, Journals, Arrest records, Love letters of the place and time you happen to be interested in might be better for you. |
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Generally avoid Reader's Digest Condensed books and abridged works, the juice gets squeezed out of those. |
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//Plenty of sex in history already...just ask Ben
Franklin or Ghengis Khan.// |
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I didn't know they were a thing. |
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////Plenty of sex in history already...just ask Ben Franklin
or Ghengis Khan.//// |
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//I didn't know they were a thing.// |
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Very highly regarded couple.
Known as Ghenjamin at the time, of course. |
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It's good to be the king. Though the peasants are revolting. |
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I just watched a documentary on how many of the
royal blood lines have inbred For various reasons,
obviously mostly political, but they sure had a lot
of sex. |
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How else do you think you end up looking like Charles? |
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So, the History Channel, back when it did actual history
sometimes? |
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WKTE & fully baked from the dawn of history for both
entertainment & propaganda. |
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Two modern examples would be The Tudors & The Great, do
you not have a TV? |
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