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meatcleaver -> RE: OK Brits....explain yourselves.... (2/4/2008 2:38:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
An embarrssing poll taken in Britain show the British people are losing grips with reality.
-23% claim Winston Churchill was a "myth."
-23% also claim Florence Nightingale was made up.
-A majority (57%) claim Sherlock Holmes was real.
-47% say King Richard the Lionheart was a myth.
Some also claimed Ghandi and Charles Dickens were also made up.
The reputation of Churchill is certainly a national myth. He was but a figure head in the war and a devisive one at that, he was hated by large sections of the labouring population. When he went to visit the East London bombing sites, he was often heckled when he told people to stand firm, people noting he was 'all right Jack'. It was the socialists that ran the war economy and kept everything afloat on the home front. I remember adults talking about Churchhill when I was a child, probably 1958, one said when he (Churchill) was born the midwife should have put a shotgun down his throat and pulled both barrels.
Nightingale as a better administratoir than a nurse, it was her organizing abilities rather than her nursing abilities that made her successful.
Richard the Lionheart lived but is very much a myth. He was a useless king, hated England and barely spent a few months the hated country. Like Churchill, he's had a good PR job done on him. His father Henry II, who is largely ignored, he was a great king, diving the executive and the judiciary and inventing the idea of an independent judiciary.
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