#pseudohistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pseudohistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Tartary (Cartography 🗺️)
Tartary or Tatary was a blanket term used in Western European literature and cartography for a vast part of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea, the Ural Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the northern borders of Medieval China, India, and Persia, at a time when this region was largely unknown to European geographers. The active use of the toponym can be traced f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary
#Tartary #Exonyms #EastAsia #Cartography #MongolStates #Pseudohistory
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The Dendera lamp is a claim by some conspiracy theorists and "alternate" history nuts that reliefs in the temple of Dendera in #Egypt "prove" that the Ancient Egyptians harnessed electricity and used it for lighting.
The name "Dendera lamp" is named after the fringe theories; the name wasn't chosen because there's any actual lamp. There isn't.
#RationalWiki #Denderalamp #pseudohistory #ancientegypt
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Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorists Harass LeBron James’ Family Over Bronny’s Hospitalization https://jezebel.com/anti-vax-conspiracy-theorists-harass-lebron-james-fami-1850678237 #Jezebel #vaccinehesitancy #covid19vaccine #pseudohistory #bennyjohnson #lebronjames #charliekirk #nancypelosi #bronnyjames #myocarditis #teslainc #fakenews #elonmusk #twitter #qanon #musk
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Gurjar queens, Vokkaliga warriors: How BJP is inventing history for a new Hindutva caste politics
Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to allegedly attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.
#BJP #caste #CastePolitics #history #pseudohistory #FreedomStruggle #karnataka #TipuSultan #vokkaligas #gurjars #muslims #elections #hindutva #india