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)
Was your brother my 6th grade history+english teacher who spent more of class time having recess or playing Risk (the board game) than anything else?
Unfortunately, I’m an only child. But I could ask my sisters whether they have any siblings who fit that description.
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.
Counterargument, secondary sources are often a good filter for bogus primary sources. This is the primary reason Wikipedia does not allow primary source references.
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
Who was the zeroth president? Or zeroth child? 🤔
George
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.
Is that what he was always showing people?
No. It was his Johnson.
I believe both of the Roosevelts had the same tattoo, of their family crest
as an expert in middle names (been working with them my whole life) i can confirm it is true
As someone who works with middle names, maybe you can’t tell but this middle name is in a lot of distress.
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?
Squincy
Seymour
I thought it was SkiiinnEEEEERRR!
John Quincy Skibidi Adams
John S. Quincy Adams
Shinigami
“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
President Fake A. Gay
Randomass Fakenamington
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.
Maybe the museum exhibit was about his nephew?
George Steptoe Washington
Sounds like what George Washington would’ve been called if he’d been a great dancer.
Or a terrible one!
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?
This is aweful. We really don’t need people polluting knowledge in officialy capacity. Effing around with friends or as a yahoo on the internet sure. I really hope this story itself is the bs.
No fun allowed.
