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02385aam a2200349 i 4500 001 F19380AAE22E11E7BCFAE02D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171216010031 007 n 008 170209s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2016304117 020 $a 1435160940 020 $a 9781435160941 040 $d IaWp $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Barham, Andrea,. 245 10 $a Napoleon wasn't short and St Patrick wasn't Irish : $b when history gets it wrong / $c Andrea Barham. 264 1 $a New York : $b Metro Books, $c 2015. 300 $a 192 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 505 0 $a Anomalous ancients -- Counterfeit kings (pre-conquest) -- Questionable queens -- Battle balderdash -- Fallacious folk heroes -- Spurious statesmen -- Felonious females -- Erroneous explorers -- Calumnious claims -- Counterfeit Kings (post-conquest) -- Muddled militaria -- Illusory inventors -- Dubious discoverers -- Misattributed quotes -- Suspect saints -- Wrong religion. 520 $a After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback. The moment has come to set the record straight, once and for all. Leading the way in this modern crusade comes Napoleon wasn't short and St Patrick wasn't Irish, a light hearted guide that reveals the many myths, fabrications and ambiguities found in the annals of world history. For example, Sir Walter Raleigh did not bring back either the potato or tobacco from the New World, Abraham Lincoln did not write the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope, Winston Churchill was not born in a ladies' toilet and Lucrezia Borgia was not an infamous poisoner. Written with wit and fascinating insight, and covering numerous subjects - from royalty to religion, saints to statesmen, inventors and explorers, and the lives of famous characters throughout history - this book is guaranteed to astonish and inform, amuse and entertain. 541 $d 20170410. 650 0 $a Common fallacies. 650 7 $a History $x Errors, inventions, etc. 650 7 $a History. 650 7 $a Common fallacies. 650 $a History $x Errors, inventions, etc. 650 $a History $v Humor. 655 7 $a Humor. 941 $a 2 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20180307031331.0 952 $l KLPC566 $d 20171216012555.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F19380AAE22E11E7BCFAE02D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search