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* ''WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525'': Done intentionally to the point of satire in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFYPmhGW0 “Why We Are DOOMED”]], which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of [=PragerU=], it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing theists like Douglas Murray, whose conservatism causes them to hold inconsistent values.

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* ''WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525'': Done intentionally to the point of satire in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFYPmhGW0 “Why We Are DOOMED”]], which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of [=PragerU=], it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing theists like Douglas Murray, Pat Buchanan, whose conservatism causes them to hold inconsistent values.
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* ''WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525'': Done intentionally to the point of satire in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTFYPmhGW0 “Why We Are DOOMED”]], which takes the voice of a hypothetical right-wing pundit so determined to equate Christianity with everything good about Western civilization and its absence with everything bad that he inverts real history wherever possible and even contradicts himself multiple times within the same speech, depending on what distortion of history is more profitable for his argument at the time. Though the commenters assumed it was a satire of [=PragerU=], it’s more primarily making fun of right-wing theists like Douglas Murray, whose conservatism causes them to hold inconsistent values.
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* ''WebAnimation/IfDisneyCartoonsWereHistoricallyAccurate'' touts itself on historical accuracy, being a pastiche of all the awful things about the Middle Ages that Disney fantasies leave out, but there are some prominent shortcomings:
** [[BurnTheWitch Witch-burning]] was not actually a thing in the Middle Ages; while burning at the stake was a punishment frequently carried out against heretics, the Catholic Church's official stance was that supernatural witches did not exist, and opposed blaming witches for natural disasters and plagues.
** Although [[KissingCousins cousin marriages]] were the norm in the past, there was never any point in European history where parent-child incest was socially acceptable.
** Raccoons are native to the New World and would not be found in Europe until after the Age of Exploration.
** Medieval European nobles may have had strange taste in foods, but horse vagina was not a delicacy they enjoyed.
** Many medieval towns and cities actually had strict laws about [[TheDungAges dumping chamber pots in the street]].
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* Creator/FrancisEDec's worldview is just choke full of this. Among others:
** He claimed that the Roman Empire never existed, that there was once a world-wide Slovene Empire and that Computer God interbred Slovene and black people to create "Jew-mulattos".
** His version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is even crazier. According to him, the Nazis were actually Jews exterminating Poles; the ghettos were posh and luxurious Jewish districts; there were only six million Poles and all of them were killed and made into human meat; somehow some of them survived to be later sacrificed for the USA and Great Britain; the 1943 ghetto uprising is a fabrication by [[BigBad Gangster Computer God]]; and Pope Pius apparently ate Polish human meat. [[FlatWhat What?]]
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** He claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, or asked his navy father.

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** He claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's Website/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, or asked his navy father.
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* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune". It was more an early example of TheFederation.

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* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Website/ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune". It was more an early example of TheFederation.

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* [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_akLHpeO7qyA/TAIR9GmXr5I/AAAAAAAABKg/vnv9Wli_x54/s1600/49899909839308766025308.jpg This]] DemotivationalPoster. It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not set back all of civilization -- even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time -- back to conditions of 1000 BCE.

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* [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_akLHpeO7qyA/TAIR9GmXr5I/AAAAAAAABKg/vnv9Wli_x54/s1600/49899909839308766025308.jpg This]] DemotivationalPoster. It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven.{{exaggerate|dTrope}}s them. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not set back all of civilization -- even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time -- back to conditions of 1000 BCE.



* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5GWhwfbuM Shrek saves children from Auschwitz]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All of it]], just ''all of it.'' Just to start with, they weren't using Thomas the Tank Engine steam engine knockoffs to transports prisoners.

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* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5GWhwfbuM Shrek saves children from Auschwitz]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All of it]], just ''all of it.'' Just to start with, they weren't using Thomas the Tank Engine steam engine knockoffs to transports transport prisoners.
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* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5GWhwfbuM Shrek saves children from Aushwitz]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All of it]], just ''all of it.''

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* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5GWhwfbuM Shrek saves children from Aushwitz]].Auschwitz]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All of it]], just ''all of it.'''' Just to start with, they weren't using Thomas the Tank Engine steam engine knockoffs to transports prisoners.
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* [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_akLHpeO7qyA/TAIR9GmXr5I/AAAAAAAABKg/vnv9Wli_x54/s1600/49899909839308766025308.jpg This]] DemotivationalPoster.
** It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not set back all of civilization -- even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time -- back to conditions of 1000 BCE.
** More precisely, it was the Germanic tribes, not the Christians, that brought an end to the ancient Western Roman civilization. It was the Church that helped to preserve and introduce ancient science to the mostly illiterate Germanic tribespeople. In the Eastern Roman Empire (which was Christian since the 4th century) the situation was completely different, with a steady improvement in science and technology.
** It also ignores certain societal factors present in the ancient world that would have inhibited technological progress -- for instance, why waste money on "labor-saving" machinery when you have a nigh-limitless supply of unpaid, low-upkeep slaves? [[ValuesDissonance It's not like their lives would be really worth anything]], [[MoralMyopia as opposed to the honest, upright citizens their works would ultimately benefit]].

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* [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_akLHpeO7qyA/TAIR9GmXr5I/AAAAAAAABKg/vnv9Wli_x54/s1600/49899909839308766025308.jpg This]] DemotivationalPoster.
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DemotivationalPoster. It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not set back all of civilization -- even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time -- back to conditions of 1000 BCE.
** More precisely, it was the Germanic tribes, not the Christians, that brought an end to the ancient Western Roman civilization. It was the Church that helped to preserve and introduce ancient science to the mostly illiterate Germanic tribespeople. In the Eastern Roman Empire (which was Christian since the 4th century) the situation was completely different, with a steady improvement in science and technology.
** It also ignores certain societal factors present in the ancient world that would have inhibited technological progress -- for instance, why waste money on "labor-saving" machinery when you have a nigh-limitless supply of unpaid, low-upkeep slaves? [[ValuesDissonance It's not like their lives would be really worth anything]], [[MoralMyopia as opposed to the honest, upright citizens their works would ultimately benefit]].
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** It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not [[CriticalResearchFailure set back all of civilization]] -- [[UnfortunateImplications even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time]] -- [[CriticalResearchFailure back to conditions of 1000 BCE.]]

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** It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not [[CriticalResearchFailure set back all of civilization]] civilization -- [[UnfortunateImplications even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time]] time -- [[CriticalResearchFailure back to conditions of 1000 BCE.]]

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* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the indiscipline and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack and many first hand reports claim ships that were bombed were having massive parties, with alcohol involved, the night beforehand. For that matter, many of the people on the ships weren't in their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].

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It was a surprise attack and many first hand reports claim ships that were bombed were having massive parties, with alcohol involved, the night beforehand. For that matter, many of the people on the ships weren't in their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he swim.
*** The Critic also fails to realize the US military was ''actively denying'' the possibility of an overseas attack on Pearl Harbor, despite warnings;[[note]]The Army and the Navy commanders were also in a "who's better" turf war and weren't communicating important intel, including "Pearl Harbor is quite likely under threat of attack."[[/note]] the Pearl Harbor commander's personal bugbear was potential sabotage.
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* In 2009, the dressup game site Poupeegirl held a [[http://www40.atwiki.jp/poupeegirl/pages/446.html Time Travel event]], with avatar items representing "Western" and "Middle Ages" themes. Which was all well and good, except the Middle Ages themed items were all [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo Rococo-era]] styles.

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* In 2009, the dressup game site Poupeegirl ''Website/PoupeeGirl'' held a [[http://www40.atwiki.jp/poupeegirl/pages/446.html Time Travel event]], with avatar items representing "Western" and "Middle Ages" themes. Which was all well and good, except the Middle Ages themed items were all [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo Rococo-era]] styles.
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* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': The argument in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq1-PShv9FE A typical French vs English Debate]]'' starts because Google states that England won the [[UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar Hundred Years' War]].
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* The web channel ''The Cynical Historian'', which is an AnalysisChannel did a video "Things Movies Cannot do Accurately" on May 02, 2019 highlighting what he calls "necessary inaccuracies". He cites "Troop Sizes, Distance of Action, Equipment, Omissions'' as examples. He points out that no war movie even the ones that uses hundreds and thousands of extras can actually convey the troop sizes of large-scale battles. Actual shootout scenes in gun battles in war and other places take place over a large distance, to the point that most soldiers barely see their enemy except as some dot in the distance, but in a movie for dramatic reasons, opposing sides have to brought closer in range for audiences to tell what's going on. The equipment is almost always hard to do right and usually has to be kitbashed and madeup to look era-appropriate and properly identifiable as protagonist and antagonist factions. There's also omissions where since one cannot tell every part of a person's life and conduct over a large time, some form of narrative focus is placed, even in so-called cradle-to-death movies that {{Biopic}} resemble, which by nature omits some parts in favor of others.
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* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the indiscipline and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, many of the people on the ships weren't in their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].

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* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the indiscipline and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, attack and many first hand reports claim ships that were bombed were having massive parties, with alcohol involved, the night beforehand. For that matter, many of the people on the ships weren't in their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].
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* [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggHoXaj8BQHIiPmOxezeWA History Buffs]] is all about this trope: the presenter reviews historical films and TV shows, with particular emphasis on their historical accuracy.
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* PlayedForLaughs in the WebVideo/ShipwreckedComedy/Tin Can Bros crossover, where the "Judge" claims that [[spoiler:Jack and Dean's]] sketch was the first video ever uploaded to Website/YouTube, and that after 14 years, there are still only two views and two comments.
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* A claim made by those who try to argue that mysticism makes claims about the world just as valid as scientific ones is that when Westerners first met the Inuit, they tried to convince the natives of the superiority of Western learning—that is, science[[note]]never mind that science ''wasn’t'' developed exclusively by Europeans, but independently in many cultures[[/note]]—by telling them about the Moon landings. The elders are not impressed, and say that their shamans have been doing that already from time immemorial. In reality, this conversation never happened, since the Inuit were in contact with the outside world for many decades by 1969, and saw the Moon landing on TV like any other Canadians. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also]], this is an inaccurate portrayal of their religion, but that’s a discussion for [[ArtisticLicenseReligion another article]].
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* ''WebVideo/Lindybeige'': He takes apart the inaccuracies of movies such as ''{{Film/Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/BlackDeath'', which make huge errors in their depiction of events, geography, chronology, religion, clothing, language, and customs.

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* ''WebVideo/Lindybeige'': ''WebVideo/{{Lindybeige}}'': He takes apart the inaccuracies of movies such as ''{{Film/Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/BlackDeath'', which make huge errors in their depiction of events, geography, chronology, religion, clothing, language, and customs.
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* ''WebVideo/Lindybeige'': He takes apart the inaccuracies of movies such as ''{{Film/Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/BlackDeath'', which make huge errors in their depiction of events, geography, chronology, religion, clothing, language, and customs.
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* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the undisciplined and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, many of the people on the ships weren't only their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].

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* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the undisciplined indiscipline and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, many of the people on the ships weren't only in their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].



** His version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is even crazier. According to him, the Nazis were actually Jews exterminating Polish; the ghettos were posh and luxurious Jew districts; there were only six million Polish and all of them were killed and made into human meat; somehow some of them survived to be later sacrificed for USA and Great Britain; the 1943 ghetto uprising is a fabrication by [[BigBad Gangster Computer God]]; and pope Pius apparently ate Polish human meat. [[FlatWhat What?]]

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** His version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is even crazier. According to him, the Nazis were actually Jews exterminating Polish; Poles; the ghettos were posh and luxurious Jew Jewish districts; there were only six million Polish Poles and all of them were killed and made into human meat; somehow some of them survived to be later sacrificed for the USA and Great Britain; the 1943 ghetto uprising is a fabrication by [[BigBad Gangster Computer God]]; and pope Pope Pius apparently ate Polish human meat. [[FlatWhat What?]]



** More precisely, it was the Germanic tribes, not the Christians, that brought an end to the ancient Western Roman civilization. It was the Church that helped to preserve and introduce ancient science to the mostly illiterate Germanic tribespeople. In the Eastern Roman Empire (which was Christian since the 4th century) the situation was completely different.

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** More precisely, it was the Germanic tribes, not the Christians, that brought an end to the ancient Western Roman civilization. It was the Church that helped to preserve and introduce ancient science to the mostly illiterate Germanic tribespeople. In the Eastern Roman Empire (which was Christian since the 4th century) the situation was completely different.different, with a steady improvement in science and technology.



* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune".

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* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune". It was more an early example of TheFederation.
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* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5GWhwfbuM Shrek saves children from Aushwitz]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All of it]], just ''all of it.''
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* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune".

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* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on ThatOtherWiki Wiki/ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune".
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* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the undisciplined and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, many of the people on the ships weren't only their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review the OtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].

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* ''Literature/AssociatedSpace'' has the following exchange in the spirit of ''Film/AnimalHouse'':
-->'''Fatebane:''' Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Admiral Patton punched right through the Western Wall and sank the Japanese fleet. And that was in the days of triremes: oar-powered ships that couldn't fire back as well as coastal fortresses.\\
'''Nazar:''' And how many ships did he lose in that battle?\\
'''Fatebane:''' It's the principle that matters! If she could do it, so can we!
* [[http://www.sff.net/people/lucy-snyder/brain/2005/12/playing-poker-with-tarot-cards.html This]] article on a Tarot TabletopGame/{{poker}} game in a fantasy novel claims that the Tarot deck is the ancestor of the modern playing card deck. Modern European playing cards only appeared sometime around 1370, and the earliest Tarot decks appeared circa 1440.
* In 2009, the dressup game site Poupeegirl held a [[http://www40.atwiki.jp/poupeegirl/pages/446.html Time Travel event]], with avatar items representing "Western" and "Middle Ages" themes. Which was all well and good, except the Middle Ages themed items were all [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo Rococo-era]] styles.
* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', he gives an extremely long rant about the undisciplined and unpreparedness of the American Military during the attack. What he fails to realize? It was a surprise attack, many of the people on the ships weren't only their compliment, but workers from all over the base so it makes sense that a few can't swim. And he claims that the Doolittle Raid killed many civilians... when in reality only a few died (although the targets were ''factories'' which are military targets). Note: he could have gotten this all right if he just took the time to review the OtherWiki's page on both subjects, [[CriticalResearchFailure or asked his navy father]].
* Creator/FrancisEDec's worldview is just choke full of this. Among others:
** He claimed that the Roman Empire never existed, that there was once a world-wide Slovene Empire and that Computer God interbred Slovene and black people to create "Jew-mulattos".
** His version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is even crazier. According to him, the Nazis were actually Jews exterminating Polish; the ghettos were posh and luxurious Jew districts; there were only six million Polish and all of them were killed and made into human meat; somehow some of them survived to be later sacrificed for USA and Great Britain; the 1943 ghetto uprising is a fabrication by [[BigBad Gangster Computer God]]; and pope Pius apparently ate Polish human meat. [[FlatWhat What?]]
* Parodied in Music/JonLajoie's "WTF Collective 2" song with MC Historical Inaccuracy:
-->''I drop lyrical bombs like Hiroshima in '73\\
I write rhymes like Shakespeare when he wrote Anne Frank's Diary\\
hich is about the civil war of 1812 in Germany\\
I'm like the Spanish Inquisition when they killed UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}\\
And Abe Lincoln's suicide was the theme for my thesis\\
Like Moses when I focus I can split the red sea\\
Like he did in 1950 with the Chinese army''
* [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_akLHpeO7qyA/TAIR9GmXr5I/AAAAAAAABKg/vnv9Wli_x54/s1600/49899909839308766025308.jpg This]] DemotivationalPoster.
** It plays MedievalMorons and TheDungAges perfectly straight and exaggerates them UpToEleven. ''No'', Ancient Greece and Rome did not have science as we know it (though they did come up with some of the important precursors). In any case, they were definitely not as advanced as the eighteenth century. No, TheMiddleAges were not completely stagnant. And ''no'', the rise of Christianity most ''definitely'' did not [[CriticalResearchFailure set back all of civilization]] -- [[UnfortunateImplications even the ones which had never heard of Christianity or the West at that point in time]] -- [[CriticalResearchFailure back to conditions of 1000 BCE.]]
** More precisely, it was the Germanic tribes, not the Christians, that brought an end to the ancient Western Roman civilization. It was the Church that helped to preserve and introduce ancient science to the mostly illiterate Germanic tribespeople. In the Eastern Roman Empire (which was Christian since the 4th century) the situation was completely different.
** It also ignores certain societal factors present in the ancient world that would have inhibited technological progress -- for instance, why waste money on "labor-saving" machinery when you have a nigh-limitless supply of unpaid, low-upkeep slaves? [[ValuesDissonance It's not like their lives would be really worth anything]], [[MoralMyopia as opposed to the honest, upright citizens their works would ultimately benefit]].
* Played for laughs in the ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' review of the ''Doom'' comic. 90s Kid actually believes the soldiers in WWII had to fight space aliens.
* Some of the editors of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth article on the history of the Icelandic Commonwealth]] on ThatOtherWiki seem to be (very unsubtly) shilling in their ideas about it as "a model anarchist commune".
* This is the basic premise of ''Series/DrunkHistory''.
* A very minor one in ''Creator/StuartAshen'''s Hitler Cartoon: Hitler's "rainbow" is of the modern day/Weimar Germany flag, although Hitler changed the flag immediately after getting into power.
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