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President Fake A. Gay
He's got my vote!
Randomass Fakenamington
Just goes to show how easy history is to alter tho. If he can do this as a one-off for shits and gigs just think what the people doing it on purpose are up to. I feel like I can hear my AP history teacher screaming "PRIMARY SOURCES" from the farthest depths of my subconscious.
My AP history teacher liked to make up stuff. But like, he'd say he made it up right after telling the made-up thing.
TIL I’m your AP history teacher (just kidding, but I do enjoy recreationally lying to children)
Just like my old physics teacher. Heard stories about him telling the students, that Pd (Palladium) is named after him (his last name had the same abbreviation).
Also jokingly using the screen of a calculator as a scale for weighing metal ball bearings.
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I mean that's a great illustration of the importance of those primary sources in a memorable way, especially if you're out of school now and it's stuck with you that long.
Primary sources make shit up too tho
But if you read a primary source, that's one persom who had the opportunity to make stuff up. With a secondary source, even if the primary it's based on is legit, there's some other guy who wasn't there and may either be lying to you or misinterpreting the primary source his report is based on. Each new level of isolation adds another opportunity to stack both lies and mistakes onto the data.
It's not that you can't go wrong with primary sources. It's that you can go a lot wronger without them.
The main problem with primary sources is that they are often involved in the event itself - or at least greatly affected by it - which makes them the most biased.
Counterargument, secondary sources are often a good filter for bogus primary sources. This is the primary reason Wikipedia does not allow primary source references.
That's very different. Wikipedia doesn't allow people to edit their own pages. They don't have rules against linking to interviews with persons involved in an event, for example.
While looking up what his middle name was, I learned that the tradition of middle names did not become widespread in the US until the 1830s. Interesting.
What I want to know is what's up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?
So nice we named her twice
"Went back 8 years later after"
Words hard.
I also don't never proof-read my shit posting on the internet tbh
I just about exclusively Lemmy from mobile, and auto carrot hates my guts. I end up sounding illiterate most of the time
Fun fact: The first president to have a middle name was John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
John Quincy Adams
the sixth president
Quincy - Meaning:The fifth
RAAAAAAAARGH
They started counting from zero, as it should be
OK what was it then? I've heard him being called John Quincy S. Adams at a local museum. Do you know what the S stands for?
Smith, named after George Smith Washington
John Quincy Skibidi Adams
Squincy
Seymour
I thought it was SkiiinnEEEEERRR!
I feel like you're lying, but I don't know enough about middle names to dispute it.
Although, Washington didn't have a mustache. That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.
And there's never been a president with purple hair. Harris, I'm lookin' at you. Be bold!
That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.
Oddly enough that was ALSO John Quincy Adams...
Ok. Not really. He was the first to have sideburns.
Lincoln was the first to have a beard.
Grant was the first to have a mustache.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_with_facial_hair
Of course Wikipedia has the list of US presidents with facial hair. Because why not
What's the presidential tattoo situation?
That would be Lyndon B. Johnson, who is said to have had a hell of a tramp stamp.
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I wonder if this is a possible explanation for the mandela effect
There's already an explanation for the Mandela effect, it's that our memories are extremely fallible and more affected by our view/environment as opposed to facts than most people believe.
Still, this could have possibly made a mini localised Mandela effect
People walking in from parallel dimensions to mess with others? Likely.
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