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And The Survey Says: Churchill Didn’t Exist

By: Pam On: Feb/4/08 - 8 Comments

3000 people polled across the pond:

  • 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.
  • 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up.
  • The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist.
  • Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of Britain’s most famous writers, is a work of fiction himself.
  • Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.
  • 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Holmes actually existed;
  • 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns’ fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.

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    8 Responses to “And The Survey Says: Churchill Didn’t Exist”

    1. PCD
      February 4, 2008 - 09:41 AM on February 4th, 2008

      People wonder why we have such idiots? Look at Liberal Education Unions, both here and in the UK.

    2. Robert
      February 4, 2008 - 11:24 AM on February 4th, 2008

      I guess this survey reveals mainly that the average Brit is as ignorant as the average American.

      Well they might not know any of the above things, but they’ll know that having two Mommies is okay, and how to put condoms on cucumbers.

    3. FrmrArtyOffcr
      February 4, 2008 - 07:20 PM on February 4th, 2008

      Does any of this really surprise any of you? I don’t have the link, but a study of US ivy league college students was as bad or worse. They didn’t even know historical events that had happened in their parents’ lifetimes. How sad is that?

    4. FrmrArtyOffcr
      February 4, 2008 - 07:20 PM on February 4th, 2008

      Does any of this really surprise any of you? I don’t have the link, but a study of US ivy league college students was as bad or worse. They didn’t even know historical events that had happened in their parents’ lifetimes. How sad is that?

    5. FrmrArtyOffcr
      February 4, 2008 - 07:23 PM on February 4th, 2008

      Since the old adage that those who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it, Libs refuse to teach it unless they can rewrite it with a liberal spin first. Otherwise the pupils might realize that everything that the Libs want to do had been tried before and been spectacular failures.

    6. An_Ivy_Leaguer
      February 5, 2008 - 02:19 AM on February 5th, 2008

      Let’s see that link, Arty.

    7. FrmrArtyOffcr
      February 7, 2008 - 01:38 AM on February 7th, 2008

      What part of “I don’t have the link” slipped through your Ivy League brain? Do a search for it. It was a rather large story on , I believe, MSNBC. Some of the things the Ivy Leaguers didn’t know included what war the Gulf of Tonkin was associated with. It was a long list of questions and the low scores were frightening. It made the current status of the Democratic party perfectly understandable. Fail to teach kids history or teach revisionist history and inevitably they think the Dem party is actually going to save the country instead of realizing that liberalism will destroy it.

    8. snowy egret
      February 9, 2008 - 06:45 PM on February 9th, 2008

      The dumbed down kids too stupid to tell who run their contry during WW II ITS A DELEBERATE PLOT BY THE EVIL CFR>:)

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