Re: China was founded by Germans.

From: Jim Webster (Jim_at_zerospam.mok.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:24:29 +0100

"intelligentsia" <vd1739@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4109b116@clarion.carno.net.au...
> I am no expert on Alexander, but you seem to be picking on minor details
> which do not effect the overall story. There many ways in which history is
> written, you ALLWAYS omit facts which you consider unimportant, yet others
> might consider them more relevant. Besides, literature in history differ
> and you will get slightly different accounts of events from different
> sources. Historical evidence is always incomplete and some of it very
> questionable which leads to many historical publication being in
> disagreement on certain issues. There are always new facts being
discovered.
> I am not at all surprised that one historian disagrees with another
> historian, that is perfectly natural.
>
>

Except that the errors made are hardly minor details, getting the wrong heir
has always been considered bad form.
One or two errors might even be inevitable. A list the length of those found
show that the author was sloppy and probably didn't know their stuff and
should probably be ignored

Jim Webster

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