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* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'' is supposed to be a musical EdutainmentShow, and while it does teach the basic lessons on beat, melody, etc. that it was meant to teach, the amount of ArtisticLicenseMusic applied to literally every other part of the show that ''isn't'' the lesson of the day is frankly absurd.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'' is supposed to be a musical EdutainmentShow, and while it does teach the basic lessons on beat, melody, etc. that it was meant to teach, the amount of ArtisticLicenseMusic applied to literally every other part of the show that ''isn't'' the lesson of the day is frankly absurd.
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* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers Michelle Remembers]]'' was a book published in 1980 by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder detailing the Satanic ritual abuse of one of his patients named Michelle Smith. According to the book, a five-year-old Michelle was tortured and abused by her mother and a Satanic cult, witnessed several murders by said cult, all of which ended with an 81-day ritual that summoned none other than Lucifer himself and the intervention of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel. Then people actually started checking the accuracy of the book and [[http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html could find absolutely zero evidence that Michelle's mother was abusive or involved with any kind of cult]]. There was no record of a car crash that was mentioned in the book. There was no record of Michelle being absent from school for any lengthy periods, and certainly not for 81 days. Many people from Smith's past dismissed the book as "the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination" and the book itself has been criticized for helping spread the satanic ritual abuse panic aka "satanic panic" of the 1980s, along with the equally fictional ''The Satan Seller''. To make matters worse, Pazder and Smith (his main and probably only source) were having an affair despite 1) both being married at the time; 2) Pazder being a practicing Catholic; and 3) a therapist sleeping with a patient being a '''huge''' violation of professional ethics. After their mutual divorces (again, a ''practicing Catholic''), Michelle Smith became Michelle Pazder.
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* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers Michelle Remembers]]'' was a book published in 1980 by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder detailing the Satanic ritual abuse of one of his patients named Michelle Smith. According to the book, a five-year-old Michelle was tortured and abused by her mother and a Satanic cult, witnessed several murders by said cult, all of which ended with an 81-day ritual that summoned none other than Lucifer himself and the intervention of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel. Then people actually started checking the accuracy of the book and [[http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html could find absolutely zero evidence that Michelle's mother was abusive or involved with any kind of cult]]. There was no record of a car crash that was mentioned in the book. There was no record of Michelle being absent from school for any lengthy periods, and certainly not for 81 days. Many people from Smith's past dismissed the book as "the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination" and the book itself has been criticized for helping spread the satanic ritual abuse panic aka "satanic panic" "SatanicPanic" of the 1980s, along with the equally fictional ''The Satan Seller''. To make matters worse, Pazder and Smith (his main and probably only source) were having an affair despite 1) both being married at the time; 2) Pazder being a practicing Catholic; and 3) a therapist sleeping with a patient being a '''huge''' violation of professional ethics. After their mutual divorces (again, a ''practicing Catholic''), Michelle Smith became Michelle Pazder.
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* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers Michelle Remembers]]'' was a book published in 1980 by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder detailing the Satanic ritual abuse of one of his patients named Michelle Smith. According to the book, a five-year-old Michelle was tortured and abused by her mother and a Satanic cult, witnessed several murders by said cult, all of which ended with an 81-day ritual that summoned none other than Lucifer himself and the intervention of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel. Then people actually started checking the accuracy of the book and [http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html could find absolutely zero evidence that Michelle's mother was abusive or involved with any kind of cult]]. There was no record of a car crash that was mentioned in the book. There was no record of Michelle being absent from school for any lengthy periods, and certainly not for 81 days. Many people from Smith's past dismissed the book as "the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination" and the book itself has been criticized for helping spread the satanic ritual abuse panic aka "satanic panic" of the 1980s, along with the equally fictional ''The Satan Seller''. To make matters worse, Pazder and Smith (his main and probably only source) were having an affair despite 1) both being married at the time; 2) Pazder being a practicing Catholic; and 3) a therapist sleeping with a patient being a '''huge''' violation of professional ethics. After their mutual divorces (again, a ''practicing Catholic''), Michelle Smith became Michelle Pazder.
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* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers Michelle Remembers]]'' was a book published in 1980 by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder detailing the Satanic ritual abuse of one of his patients named Michelle Smith. According to the book, a five-year-old Michelle was tortured and abused by her mother and a Satanic cult, witnessed several murders by said cult, all of which ended with an 81-day ritual that summoned none other than Lucifer himself and the intervention of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel. Then people actually started checking the accuracy of the book and [http://www.[[http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html could find absolutely zero evidence that Michelle's mother was abusive or involved with any kind of cult]]. There was no record of a car crash that was mentioned in the book. There was no record of Michelle being absent from school for any lengthy periods, and certainly not for 81 days. Many people from Smith's past dismissed the book as "the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination" and the book itself has been criticized for helping spread the satanic ritual abuse panic aka "satanic panic" of the 1980s, along with the equally fictional ''The Satan Seller''. To make matters worse, Pazder and Smith (his main and probably only source) were having an affair despite 1) both being married at the time; 2) Pazder being a practicing Catholic; and 3) a therapist sleeping with a patient being a '''huge''' violation of professional ethics. After their mutual divorces (again, a ''practicing Catholic''), Michelle Smith became Michelle Pazder.
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* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers Michelle]] [[http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html Remembers]]'' was a book published in 1980 by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder detailing the Satanic ritual abuse of one of his patients named Michelle Smith. According to the book, a five-year-old Michelle was tortured and abused by her mother and a Satanic cult, witnessed several murders by said cult, all of which ended with an 81-day ritual that summoned none other than Lucifer himself and the intervention of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel. Then people actually started checking the accuracy of the book and could find absolutely zero evidence that Michelle's mother was abusive or involved with any kind of cult. There was no record of a car crash that was mentioned in the book. There was no record of Michelle being absent from school for any lengthy periods, and certainly not for 81 days. Many people from Smith's past dismissed the book as "the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination" and the book itself has been criticized for helping spread the satanic ritual abuse panic aka "satanic panic" of the 1980s, along with the equally fictional ''The Satan Seller''. To make matters worse, Pazder and Smith (his main and probably only source) were having an affair despite 1) both being married at the time; 2) Pazder being a practicing Catholic; and 3) a therapist sleeping with a patient being a '''huge''' violation of professional ethics. After their mutual divorces (again, a ''practicing Catholic''), Michelle Smith became Michelle Pazder.
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* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers Michelle]] [[http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html Michelle Remembers]]'' was a book published in 1980 by psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder detailing the Satanic ritual abuse of one of his patients named Michelle Smith. According to the book, a five-year-old Michelle was tortured and abused by her mother and a Satanic cult, witnessed several murders by said cult, all of which ended with an 81-day ritual that summoned none other than Lucifer himself and the intervention of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel. Then people actually started checking the accuracy of the book and [http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm271496.html could find absolutely zero evidence that Michelle's mother was abusive or involved with any kind of cult.cult]]. There was no record of a car crash that was mentioned in the book. There was no record of Michelle being absent from school for any lengthy periods, and certainly not for 81 days. Many people from Smith's past dismissed the book as "the hysterical ravings of an uncontrolled imagination" and the book itself has been criticized for helping spread the satanic ritual abuse panic aka "satanic panic" of the 1980s, along with the equally fictional ''The Satan Seller''. To make matters worse, Pazder and Smith (his main and probably only source) were having an affair despite 1) both being married at the time; 2) Pazder being a practicing Catholic; and 3) a therapist sleeping with a patient being a '''huge''' violation of professional ethics. After their mutual divorces (again, a ''practicing Catholic''), Michelle Smith became Michelle Pazder.
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* The ''Franchise/WalkingWith'' series has been criticized for its frequent anachronism, MisplacedWildlife, and readiness to accept and treat controversial theories and [[AnimalsNotToScale dubious size estimates]] as fact, as well as making some odd claims that contradict what was known at the time (1999-2005). Some of the most notable examples include:
** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' depicted the pliosaur ''Liopleurodon'' as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, even though the highest generally accepted size estimates for pliosaurs at the time put them at 15 meters (and even those are dubious). [[note]] The immense size was a fringe theory endorsed by one of the show's consultants based on very fragmentary remains (namely a single vertebra) that he interpreted as coming from an 18-20 meter animal and they speculated based on that that even larger specimens could have existed. [[/note]]
** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' depicted the pliosaur ''Liopleurodon'' as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, even though the highest generally accepted size estimates for pliosaurs at the time put them at 15 meters (and even those are dubious). [[note]] The immense size was a fringe theory endorsed by one of the show's consultants based on very fragmentary remains (namely a single vertebra) that he interpreted as coming from an 18-20 meter animal and they speculated based on that that even larger specimens could have existed. [[/note]]
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** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' depicted the pliosaur ''Liopleurodon'' as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, even though the highest generally accepted size estimates for pliosaurs at the time put them at15 12-15 meters (and even those are dubious). [[note]] The immense size was a fringe theory endorsed by one of the show's consultants based on very fragmentary remains (namely a single vertebra) that he interpreted as coming from an 18-20 meter animal and they speculated based on that that even larger specimens could have existed. [[/note]]
** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' depicted the pliosaur ''Liopleurodon'' as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, even though the highest generally accepted size estimates for pliosaurs at the time put them at
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** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' depicted the pliosaur ''Liopleurodon'' as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, even though the highest generally accepted size estimates for pliosaurs at the time put them at 15 meters (and even those are dubious). [[note]] The immense size was a fringe theory endorsed by one of the show's consultants based on very fragmentary remains (namely a single vertebra) that he interpreted as coming from an 18-20 meter animal and they speculated based on that that even larger specimens could have existed. [[/note]]
** The ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' episode "New Dawn" claims that the Early Eocene was a time when all land mammals were small and giant flightless birds like ''Gastornis'' ruled the world. That is simply not true, as it was known even at the time that large mammals such as pantodonts, mesonychids, and even the rhino-sized dinoceratans were around during the Early Eocene.
** The ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'' episode "Land of Giants" has a [[AnachronismStew particularly strange mish-mash]] [[MisplacedWildlife of animals living together in Argentina 100 million years ago]]. While the presence of ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Argentinosaurus'' makes sense (though the latter was slightly younger), it weirdly also includes ''Pteranodon'', who is only known from the Late Cretaceous of North America, and the giant crocodile ''Sarcosuchus'', who lived in Africa. [[note]] There is a purported Brazilian species but it was much smaller. [[/note]]
** An unfortunate example is the giant Carboniferous spider from ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'', thanks to some very bad timing. The spider was supposed to be ''Megarachne'', but while WWM was in production, a second, more complete specimen of ''Megarachne'' was described and revealed that the animal was actually a misidentified eurypterid. As the animation was already completed, the producers simply rebranded ''Megarachne'' as an indeterminate mesotheliana, but there is no evidence that any of them grew anywhere near as big as ''Megarachne'', thus making the Carboniferous spider [[CartoonCreature an entirely fictional animal]].
** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' depicted the pliosaur ''Liopleurodon'' as a 25-meter, 150-ton leviathan, even though the highest generally accepted size estimates for pliosaurs at the time put them at 15 meters (and even those are dubious). [[note]] The immense size was a fringe theory endorsed by one of the show's consultants based on very fragmentary remains (namely a single vertebra) that he interpreted as coming from an 18-20 meter animal and they speculated based on that that even larger specimens could have existed. [[/note]]
** The ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' episode "New Dawn" claims that the Early Eocene was a time when all land mammals were small and giant flightless birds like ''Gastornis'' ruled the world. That is simply not true, as it was known even at the time that large mammals such as pantodonts, mesonychids, and even the rhino-sized dinoceratans were around during the Early Eocene.
** The ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'' episode "Land of Giants" has a [[AnachronismStew particularly strange mish-mash]] [[MisplacedWildlife of animals living together in Argentina 100 million years ago]]. While the presence of ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Argentinosaurus'' makes sense (though the latter was slightly younger), it weirdly also includes ''Pteranodon'', who is only known from the Late Cretaceous of North America, and the giant crocodile ''Sarcosuchus'', who lived in Africa. [[note]] There is a purported Brazilian species but it was much smaller. [[/note]]
** An unfortunate example is the giant Carboniferous spider from ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'', thanks to some very bad timing. The spider was supposed to be ''Megarachne'', but while WWM was in production, a second, more complete specimen of ''Megarachne'' was described and revealed that the animal was actually a misidentified eurypterid. As the animation was already completed, the producers simply rebranded ''Megarachne'' as an indeterminate mesotheliana, but there is no evidence that any of them grew anywhere near as big as ''Megarachne'', thus making the Carboniferous spider [[CartoonCreature an entirely fictional animal]].
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* ''Film/LadyBallers'', produced by the conservative online tabloid The Daily Wire, is about a man who puts on a wig and dress and proceeds to dominate in women's basketball by claiming to be transgender, which the film claims is accurate to reality. In actuality, there are considerable restrictions in place for transgender athletes: in order to compete in the women's division, a trans athlete has to have been on HRT for months and their hormone levels are carefully monitored. On top of that, the film doesn't even get the basics of basketball correct: the protagonist's team does not have a sufficient number of players on it to actually be allowed to compete in a basketball tournament.
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* ''Film/LadyBallers'', produced by the conservative online tabloid The Daily Wire, is about a man who puts on a wig and dress and proceeds to dominate in women's basketball by claiming to be transgender, which the film claims is accurate to reality. In actuality, there are considerable restrictions in place for transgender athletes: in order to compete in the women's division, a trans athlete has to have been on HRT for months and their hormone levels are carefully monitored. On top of that, the film doesn't even get the basics of basketball correct: the protagonist's team does not have a sufficient number of players on it to actually be allowed to compete in a basketball tournament. The writer of the film has stated that they wanted to make a documentary on the subject (namely the transphobic canard that men claim to be transgender solely to compete in women's sports), but found absolutely nothing remotely like what they were looking for, forcing them to make a fictional movie instead.
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* Most of his biographers agree Creator/GeorgeLucas didn't heavily read the works of Joseph Campbell and Bruno Bettelheim after he had already produced the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' film. That hasn't stopped countless authors, documentaries and such from claiming he had painstakingly researched the topic before making his own ''Franchise/FlashGordon''. Notably, Lucas himself claimed in an interview in J. W. Rinzler's ''The Making of Star Wars'' that he read Bettelheim's book before writing the film, when the book was actually released ''after'' the film did.
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* Most of his biographers agree Creator/GeorgeLucas didn't heavily read the works of Joseph Campbell and Bruno Bettelheim after he had already produced the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' film.film (he did have to study some of Campbell in college, and at some points has claimed to have read ''Literature/TheHeroWithAThousandFaces'' before writing the script). That hasn't stopped countless authors, documentaries and such from claiming he had painstakingly researched the topic before making his own ''Franchise/FlashGordon''. Notably, Lucas himself claimed in an interview in J. W. Rinzler's ''The Making of Star Wars'' that he read Bettelheim's book before writing the film, when the book was actually released ''after'' the film did.
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* Robert Crais is famous for the Joe Pike series of thriller novels which, he claimed, were all based on meticulous research. However, his novels are literally full of mistakes. For example, the second Joe Pike novel, ''The First Rule'', tells the story of the Serbian mafia in the United States but gets just about everything wrong.
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* Robert Crais is famous for the Joe Pike Literature/JoePike series of thriller novels which, he claimed, were all based on meticulous research. However, his novels are literally full of mistakes. For example, the second Joe Pike novel, ''The First Rule'', tells the story of the Serbian mafia in the United States but gets just about everything wrong.
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* ''The Eagle Has Landed'': the blurb on the back cover says that "at least 50 percent of this novel is documented historical fact". In fact, it's complete fiction. At the time of the alleged events (an attempt on the life of Winston Churchill in November 1943), the Nazis were perfectly aware that Churchill was in Tehran, Iran, and not Norfolk, England, as the book suggests; they even (allegedly) sent a hit squad to Tehran to kill him (and Roosevelt, and Stalin!), but the team was intercepted and arrested by Soviet NKVD.
* ''The Second Assassin'' by Christopher Hyde is alleged to have its basis in a real plot against the King and Queen of the United Kingdom (and many other places under the British Crown) during their 1939 US visit. Many real people like UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson (though he's only portrayed as a minor player) are written as involved in this plot, with the aim of preventing a US entry into the coming world war on the UK's side. All this would be fine if the author said it was fictional. He insists it isn't in the epilogue, however, but only a very weak attempt is made to support this. A lot of it seems to be based more on some [[WhoShotJFK conspiracy theories regarding JFK's assassination]] than anything else, with the author explicitly referencing this in the same epilogue. There is no evidence such a plot really happened, needless to say.
* ''The Second Assassin'' by Christopher Hyde is alleged to have its basis in a real plot against the King and Queen of the United Kingdom (and many other places under the British Crown) during their 1939 US visit. Many real people like UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson (though he's only portrayed as a minor player) are written as involved in this plot, with the aim of preventing a US entry into the coming world war on the UK's side. All this would be fine if the author said it was fictional. He insists it isn't in the epilogue, however, but only a very weak attempt is made to support this. A lot of it seems to be based more on some [[WhoShotJFK conspiracy theories regarding JFK's assassination]] than anything else, with the author explicitly referencing this in the same epilogue. There is no evidence such a plot really happened, needless to say.
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* ''The Eagle Has Landed'': ''Literature/TheEagleHasLanded'': the blurb on the back cover says that "at least 50 percent of this novel is documented historical fact". In fact, it's complete fiction. At the time of the alleged events (an attempt on the life of Winston Churchill in November 1943), the Nazis were perfectly aware that Churchill was in Tehran, Iran, and not Norfolk, England, as the book suggests; they even (allegedly) sent a hit squad to Tehran to kill him (and Roosevelt, and Stalin!), but the team was intercepted and arrested by Soviet NKVD.
*''The Second Assassin'' ''Literature/TheSecondAssassin'' by Christopher Hyde is alleged to have its basis in a real plot against the King and Queen of the United Kingdom (and many other places under the British Crown) during their 1939 US visit. Many real people like UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson (though he's only portrayed as a minor player) are written as involved in this plot, with the aim of preventing a US entry into the coming world war on the UK's side. All this would be fine if the author said it was fictional. He insists it isn't in the epilogue, however, but only a very weak attempt is made to support this. A lot of it seems to be based more on some [[WhoShotJFK conspiracy theories regarding JFK's assassination]] than anything else, with the author explicitly referencing this in the same epilogue. There is no evidence such a plot really happened, needless to say.
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* This [[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0090a.html appears to]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=lam%27s+story+about+her+years+in+china+could+not+be+verified&source=bl&ots=ALDCeZauoa&sig=-STu4H7tQ_5INGfc-PR-pbUhVWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=18YpT5avOoWctwfuh-CRCQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lam%27s%20story%20about%20her%20years%20in%20china%20could%20not%20be%20verified&f=false be the case]] about the movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101578/ China Cry: A True Story]]'' (yes, the words "a true story" are actually in the title). Beyond complaints about deserts being in locations they aren't on a real life map, there's a claim that a child remained in the womb for 12 ''months'', 52 weeks. Talking to a doula, OB nurse, or OB/GYN doctor, you'll find that at 42 weeks they'll start talking seriously about inducing labor, since at that point the length of the pregnancy is getting dangerous for mother and child.
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* This [[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0090a.html appears to]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=lam%27s+story+about+her+years+in+china+could+not+be+verified&source=bl&ots=ALDCeZauoa&sig=-STu4H7tQ_5INGfc-PR-pbUhVWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=18YpT5avOoWctwfuh-CRCQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lam%27s%20story%20about%20her%20years%20in%20china%20could%20not%20be%20verified&f=false be the case]] about the movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101578/ China Cry: A True Story]]'' ''Film/ChinaCryATrueStory'' (yes, the words "a true story" are actually in the title). Beyond complaints about deserts being in locations they aren't on a real life map, there's a claim that a child remained in the womb for 12 ''months'', 52 weeks. Talking to a doula, OB nurse, or OB/GYN doctor, you'll find that at 42 weeks they'll start talking seriously about inducing labor, since at that point the length of the pregnancy is getting dangerous for mother and child.
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* Podcast/ItCouldHappenHere by Robert Evans (of Podcast/BehindTheBastards fame) is presented as a detailed and realistic thought experiment of a near-future second American civil war. Evans then spends most of the podcast's runtime angrily railing against the federal goverment and various far-right/religious ideologies while hyping up anarchism, rather than detail how such a conflict would realistically unfold. Highlights include:
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* Podcast/ItCouldHappenHere ''Podcast/ItCouldHappenHere'' by Robert Evans (of Podcast/BehindTheBastards ''Podcast/BehindTheBastards'' fame) is presented as a detailed and realistic thought experiment of a near-future second American civil war. Evans then spends most of the podcast's runtime angrily railing against the federal goverment government and various far-right/religious ideologies while hyping up anarchism, rather than detail how such a conflict would realistically unfold. Highlights include:
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* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': After a few biological anthropology and forensic courses, the science portion of the show just becomes too ridiculous and outright silly. Sadly, this has led to quite a few hopeful forensic anthropology undergrads taking the show's "facts" as, well, fact, when most of the storylines are exaggerated for drama. What makes this a false claim of accuracy rather than simple research failure is that the fact that Kathy Reichs (a former respected forensic anthropologist) is a producer of the show and her presence was highly touted as an implied mark of accuracy. In this case, there's evidence that it was the marketing department that made the claims, and it wasn't intended by the creators: An executive producer, responding to a question about Kathy Reichs's involvement in the show, said this: "Somewhere we got rated as the most accurate of the forensics shows—it was Popular Mechanics or Popular Science... We just laughed." and Reichs has acknowledged that forensics shows in general are usually incredibly misleading about what actually happens and about how reliable existing methods are.
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* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': After a few biological anthropology and forensic courses, the science portion of the show just becomes too ridiculous and outright silly. Sadly, this has led to quite a few hopeful forensic anthropology undergrads [[TheCSIEffect taking the show's "facts" as, well, fact, fact]], when most of the storylines are exaggerated for drama. What makes this a false claim of accuracy rather than simple research failure is that the fact that Kathy Reichs (a former respected forensic anthropologist) is a producer of the show and her presence was highly touted as an implied mark of accuracy. In this case, there's evidence that it was the marketing department that made the claims, and it wasn't intended by the creators: An executive producer, responding to a question about Kathy Reichs's involvement in the show, said this: "Somewhere we got rated as the most accurate of the forensics shows—it was Popular Mechanics or Popular Science... We just laughed." and Reichs has acknowledged that forensics shows in general are usually incredibly misleading about what actually happens and about how reliable existing methods are.
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Some authors and writers freely admit that they are producing a work of ''fiction'' -- something with no obligation to conform to the world as it is or ever was. Their readers, in turn, are expected to forgive an Acceptable Break from Reality or two as long as the plot is engaging and the internal logic of the story is not broken. But other authors claim that their work is effectively nonfiction: it is so meticulously researched that -- with the exception of some invented elements which will be obvious to the reader -- what they offer is as factual as the encyclopedia.
Why they do this varies: perhaps a work which they can call nonfiction seems more serious than a work of fiction, or it will attract a "better" readership, or it will increase the author's standing among "real" experts in history, geology, religious studies, etc. Perhaps it's some kind of StealthParody on the chosen media in general, seeing how far our TrollingCreator can get away with presenting lies as facts. Perhaps it's to cover the fact that they haven't done any research at all, and RefugeInAudacity is less humiliating than admitting the truth. Or perhaps the author is working with outdated information and/or questionable sources. Whatever the reason, their claims fall apart the moment someone encounters an error -- and when the selling point of the work is its accuracy, this hurts a 'nonfiction' work more than one which has never claimed to be anything but fiction.
Some genres and media tend to be free from this practice by their very nature. Creators of comic books, cartoons, manga, and anime very rarely make claims of authenticity--there may be an assumed LikeRealityUnlessNoted at most. Examples in {{Advertising}} campaigns and individual advertisements are rare, largely because of truth-in-advertising laws; companies are allowed to make all sorts of claims about their products as long as they avoid making clear statements of fact.
Why they do this varies: perhaps a work which they can call nonfiction seems more serious than a work of fiction, or it will attract a "better" readership, or it will increase the author's standing among "real" experts in history, geology, religious studies, etc. Perhaps it's some kind of StealthParody on the chosen media in general, seeing how far our TrollingCreator can get away with presenting lies as facts. Perhaps it's to cover the fact that they haven't done any research at all, and RefugeInAudacity is less humiliating than admitting the truth. Or perhaps the author is working with outdated information and/or questionable sources. Whatever the reason, their claims fall apart the moment someone encounters an error -- and when the selling point of the work is its accuracy, this hurts a 'nonfiction' work more than one which has never claimed to be anything but fiction.
Some genres and media tend to be free from this practice by their very nature. Creators of comic books, cartoons, manga, and anime very rarely make claims of authenticity--there may be an assumed LikeRealityUnlessNoted at most. Examples in {{Advertising}} campaigns and individual advertisements are rare, largely because of truth-in-advertising laws; companies are allowed to make all sorts of claims about their products as long as they avoid making clear statements of fact.
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Why they do this varies: perhaps a work which they can call nonfiction seems more serious than a work of fiction, or it will attract a "better" readership, or it will increase the author's standing among "real" experts in history, geology, religious studies, etc. Perhaps it's some kind of StealthParody on the chosen media in general, seeing how far our TrollingCreator can get away with presenting lies as facts. Perhaps it's to cover the fact that they haven't done any research at all, and RefugeInAudacity is less humiliating than admitting the truth. Or perhaps the author is working with outdated information and/or questionable sources. Whatever the reason,
Some genres and media tend to
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Only examples that make claims of accuracy are valid examples. Simply "the creator got fact wrong" is not Falsely Advertised Accuracy.
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Why they do this varies: perhaps a work which they can call nonfiction seems more serious than a work of fiction, or it will attract a "better" readership, or it will increase the author's standing among "real" experts in history, geology, religious studies, etc. Perhaps it's some kind of StealthParody on the chosen media in general, seeing how far our TrollingCreator can get away with presenting lies as facts. Perhaps it's to cover the fact that they haven't done any research at all, and RefugeInAudacity is less humiliating than admitting the truth. Or perhaps the author is working with outdated information and/or questionable sources.
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Why they do this varies: perhaps a work which they can call nonfiction seems more serious than a work of fiction, or it will attract a "better" readership, or it will increase the author's standing among "real" experts in history, geology, religious studies, etc. Perhaps it's some kind of StealthParody on the chosen media in general, seeing how far our TrollingCreator can get away with presenting lies as facts. Perhaps it's to cover the fact that they haven't done any research at all, and RefugeInAudacity is less humiliating than admitting the truth. Or perhaps the author is working with outdated information and/or questionable sources.
sources. Whatever the reason, their claims fall apart the moment someone encounters an error -- and when the selling point of the work is its accuracy, this hurts a 'nonfiction' work more than one which has never claimed to be anything but fiction.
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Have you ever picked up a work by a creator who claims (or at least implies) that their product [[ShownTheirWork is based on thorough and careful research]], only to discover what you're actually holding is a steaming pile of lazy assumptions or outright lies? This is Falsely Advertised Accuracy.
Some authors and writers will admit that they take advantage of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, ArtisticLicense, the RuleOfCool, the RuleOfFunny, or any of the other [[RuleOfIndex Rules of Whatever]]. Some acknowledge freely that RealityIsUnrealistic, and admit that it affects the choices they make in their works. The audience, in turn, will forgive an Acceptable Break from Reality or two as long as the story is engaging and the contradictions aren't too farfetched. [[ThisIsNotThatTrope This is not so for other authors.]] Those who Falsely Advertise Accuracy claim that their work is carefully researched and entirely accurate, so--with the exception of some fictionalized elements which will be obvious to the reader--what they offer is as factual as the encyclopedia.
Some authors and writers will admit that they take advantage of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, ArtisticLicense, the RuleOfCool, the RuleOfFunny, or any of the other [[RuleOfIndex Rules of Whatever]]. Some acknowledge freely that RealityIsUnrealistic, and admit that it affects the choices they make in their works. The audience, in turn, will forgive an Acceptable Break from Reality or two as long as the story is engaging and the contradictions aren't too farfetched. [[ThisIsNotThatTrope This is not so for other authors.]] Those who Falsely Advertise Accuracy claim that their work is carefully researched and entirely accurate, so--with the exception of some fictionalized elements which will be obvious to the reader--what they offer is as factual as the encyclopedia.
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* Author Naomi Wolf had planned to publish the book ''Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love'' detailing the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain. However she learned - [[https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/naomi-wolf-interview-book-error-bbc-interview.html on air during a BBC radio interview]] - that the phrase "death recorded" didn't mean execution. The phrase meant that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given a death sentence. [[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50153743 Her publisher put the book on hold]], it was published later, but [[NeverLiveItDown reviews of the book brought this radio inteview up]].
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* Author Naomi Wolf had planned to publish the book ''Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love'' detailing the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain. However she learned - [[https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/naomi-wolf-interview-book-error-bbc-interview.html on air during a BBC radio interview]] - that the phrase "death recorded" didn't mean execution. The phrase meant that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given a death sentence. [[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50153743 Her publisher put the book on hold]], hold]] and it was published later, but [[NeverLiveItDown reviews of the book brought this radio inteview up]].
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** At one point, the emperor calls for his troops to “defend the Silk Road” from the Rouran invaders. The problem is, the associated territories would ''not'' fall under the control of China until the 18th century.
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** At one point, the emperor calls for his troops to “defend "defend the Silk Road” Road" from the Rouran invaders. The problem is, the associated territories would ''not'' fall under the control of China until the 18th century.
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* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' director Creator/ZackSnyder stated that "the events are 90% accurate. It's just in the visualization that's crazy. I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is," and observed that the film was primarily inspired by contemporary depictions and records of warfare, which, give or take some of the fantastic elements and "crazy visualisations", it did a fair job of representing. The problem is that the "90% accurate" statement is referring to his faithfulness to his source: Frank Miller's ''comic book''. It is quite faithful to the comic, which was based in turn on sources that are known to be highly factually inaccurate, coming as they do from highly-biased authors. ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' summed it up the best: "A film based on a graphic novel based on [[Film/The300Spartans an older film]] based on ancient Greek propaganda based on a true story!" It's the "world-class historians who have said it's amazing" part that causes it to be an example of this, as it implies that the film has a high level of factual accuracy.
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* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' director Creator/ZackSnyder stated that "the events are 90% accurate. It's just in the visualization that's crazy. I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is," is", and observed that the film was primarily inspired by contemporary depictions and records of warfare, which, give or take some of the fantastic elements and "crazy visualisations", it did a fair job of representing. The problem is that the "90% accurate" statement is referring to his faithfulness to his source: Frank Miller's ''comic book''. It is quite faithful to the comic, which was based in turn on sources that are known to be highly factually inaccurate, coming as they do from highly-biased authors. ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' summed it up the best: "A film based on a graphic novel based on [[Film/The300Spartans an older film]] based on ancient Greek propaganda based on a true story!" It's the "world-class historians who have said it's amazing" part that causes it to be an example of this, as it implies that the film has a high level of factual accuracy.
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** Speaking of which, Sparta had two kings, while Leonidas in the film was the only one.
** In the film, Leonidas claims the only reason the Athenians want their help is that they can't fight the Persians alone. In real life, Athens had not only fought and won against the Persians before but left the Persians they killed for the late arriving Spartan army--which Leonidas happened to be leading--to bury.
** Funny enough, the ending reveals that it was all being related by the lone surviving Spartan, who'd been sent to act as messenger, which means the entire movie falls under UnreliableNarrator. Too bad Snyder didn't just say SureLetsGoWithThat.
** In the film, Leonidas claims the only reason the Athenians want their help is that they can't fight the Persians alone. In real life, Athens had not only fought and won against the Persians before but left the Persians they killed for the late arriving Spartan army--which Leonidas happened to be leading--to bury.
** Funny enough, the ending reveals that it was all being related by the lone surviving Spartan, who'd been sent to act as messenger, which means the entire movie falls under UnreliableNarrator. Too bad Snyder didn't just say SureLetsGoWithThat.
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** Speaking of which, Sparta had two kings, while Leonidas in the film was is the only one.
** In the film, Leonidas claims the only reason the Athenians want their help is that they can't fight the Persians alone. In real life, Athens had not only fought and won against the Persians before but left the Persians they killed for the late arriving Spartanarmy--which army -- which Leonidas happened to be leading--to leading -- to bury.
**Funny enough, Aptly, the ending reveals that it the narrative was all being related by the lone surviving Spartan, who'd been sent to act as a messenger, which means the entire movie falls under UnreliableNarrator. Too bad Snyder didn't just say SureLetsGoWithThat.
** In the film, Leonidas claims the only reason the Athenians want their help is that they can't fight the Persians alone. In real life, Athens had not only fought and won against the Persians before but left the Persians they killed for the late arriving Spartan
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** The Spinosaurus being able to snap a ''T. rex''[='s=] neck; the third movie's "dinosaur consultant" went on record claiming this was actually possible. In reality, a Spinosaurus' jaws were too weak to do so and their hands and arms were anatomically incapable of holding on to the ''T. rex'' in the manner it does. In this case, the inaccuracies may be a result of the production crew actually ''listening to'' the technical advisor. The films' general consultant was Jack Horner, who is notorious in the paleontological community for his decades-long crusade arguing that Big T's badass reputation was overblown (specifically, he thought the animal was a big, lumbering, carrion eater rather than a relatively-agile active predator), a crusade that even he is reluctantly admitting turned out to be wrong.
* This [[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0090a.html appears to]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=lam%27s+story+about+her+years+in+china+could+not+be+verified&source=bl&ots=ALDCeZauoa&sig=-STu4H7tQ_5INGfc-PR-pbUhVWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=18YpT5avOoWctwfuh-CRCQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lam%27s%20story%20about%20her%20years%20in%20china%20could%20not%20be%20verified&f=false be the case]] about the movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101578/ China Cry: A True Story]]'' (yes, the words "a true story" are actually in the title). Beyond complaints about deserts being locations they aren't on a real life map, there's a claim that her child remained in her womb for 12 ''months'', 52 weeks. Talking to a doula, OB nurse, or OB/GYN doctor, you'll find that at 42 weeks they'll start talking seriously about inducing labor, since at that point the length of the pregnancy is getting dangerous for mother and child.
* This [[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0090a.html appears to]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=lam%27s+story+about+her+years+in+china+could+not+be+verified&source=bl&ots=ALDCeZauoa&sig=-STu4H7tQ_5INGfc-PR-pbUhVWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=18YpT5avOoWctwfuh-CRCQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lam%27s%20story%20about%20her%20years%20in%20china%20could%20not%20be%20verified&f=false be the case]] about the movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101578/ China Cry: A True Story]]'' (yes, the words "a true story" are actually in the title). Beyond complaints about deserts being locations they aren't on a real life map, there's a claim that her child remained in her womb for 12 ''months'', 52 weeks. Talking to a doula, OB nurse, or OB/GYN doctor, you'll find that at 42 weeks they'll start talking seriously about inducing labor, since at that point the length of the pregnancy is getting dangerous for mother and child.
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** The Spinosaurus being able to snap a ''T. rex''[='s=] neck; the third movie's "dinosaur consultant" went on record claiming this was actually possible. In reality, a Spinosaurus' jaws were too weak to do so and their hands and arms were anatomically incapable of holding on to the ''T. rex'' in the manner it does. In this case, the inaccuracies may be a result of the production crew actually ''listening to'' the technical advisor. The films' general consultant was Jack Horner, who is notorious in the paleontological community for his decades-long crusade arguing that Big T's badass reputation was is overblown (specifically, he thought the animal was a big, lumbering, carrion eater rather than a relatively-agile active predator), a crusade that even he is reluctantly admitting turned out to be wrong.
* This [[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0090a.html appears to]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=lam%27s+story+about+her+years+in+china+could+not+be+verified&source=bl&ots=ALDCeZauoa&sig=-STu4H7tQ_5INGfc-PR-pbUhVWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=18YpT5avOoWctwfuh-CRCQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lam%27s%20story%20about%20her%20years%20in%20china%20could%20not%20be%20verified&f=false be the case]] about the movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101578/ China Cry: A True Story]]'' (yes, the words "a true story" are actually in the title). Beyond complaints about deserts being in locations they aren't on a real life map, there's a claim thather a child remained in her the womb for 12 ''months'', 52 weeks. Talking to a doula, OB nurse, or OB/GYN doctor, you'll find that at 42 weeks they'll start talking seriously about inducing labor, since at that point the length of the pregnancy is getting dangerous for mother and child.
* This [[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0090a.html appears to]] [[http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA328&lpg=PA328&dq=lam%27s+story+about+her+years+in+china+could+not+be+verified&source=bl&ots=ALDCeZauoa&sig=-STu4H7tQ_5INGfc-PR-pbUhVWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=18YpT5avOoWctwfuh-CRCQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lam%27s%20story%20about%20her%20years%20in%20china%20could%20not%20be%20verified&f=false be the case]] about the movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101578/ China Cry: A True Story]]'' (yes, the words "a true story" are actually in the title). Beyond complaints about deserts being in locations they aren't on a real life map, there's a claim that
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* Ken Follett claimed he did a lot of research for his ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', but he appears to think medieval labor was capitalist (it was guild-based) and never to have heard about how various religious orders ran orphanages, and taking in neighbor's children was routine (hint: extended families and/or godparents), so there'd be lots of options for that baby one can't care for, [[DeusAngstMachina apart from leaving it on its mother's grave]]. He also repeats the ''very'' old, long-discredited idea that Beckett's canonization was a political maneuver. He doesn't understand medieval manorialism (he seems to think rents were owed individually rather than by the village collectively, reading the Post-Reformation landlord system back into the 12th Century). Maybe we should amend his claim to "I researched the architecture."
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* Ken Follett claimed he did a lot of research for his ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', but he appears to think medieval labor was capitalist (it was guild-based) and never to have heard about how various religious orders ran orphanages, and taking in neighbor's children was routine (hint: extended families and/or godparents), so there'd be lots of options for that baby one can't care for, [[DeusAngstMachina apart from leaving it on its mother's grave]]. He also repeats the ''very'' old, long-discredited idea that Beckett's canonization was a political maneuver. He doesn't understand medieval manorialism (he seems to think rents were owed individually rather than by the village collectively, reading the Post-Reformation landlord system back into the 12th Century). Maybe we should amend his claim to "I researched the architecture."architecture".
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** WordofGod also states that the movie does not have songs because it would be unrealistic for soldiers to sing in a warzone. The problem is that military songs have long existed to help raise morale among the troops; so yes, it would be realistic for soldiers to sing in a warzone.
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** WordofGod WordOfGod also states that the movie does not have songs because it would be unrealistic for soldiers to sing in a warzone. The problem is that military songs have long existed to help raise morale among the troops; so yes, it would be realistic for soldiers to sing in a warzone.
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Some authors and writers will admit that they take advantage of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, ArtisticLicense, the RuleOfCool, the RuleOfFunny, or any of the other [[RuleOfIndex Rules of Whatever]]. Some acknowledge freely that RealityIsUnrealistic, and admit that it affects the choices they make in their works. And the audience, in turn, will forgive an Acceptable Break from Reality or two as long as the story is engaging and the contradictions aren't too farfetched. [[ThisIsNotThatTrope This is not so for other authors.]] Those who Falsely Advertise Accuracy claim that their work is carefully researched and entirely accurate, so--with the exception of some fictionalized elements which will be obvious to the reader--what they offer is as factual as the encyclopedia.
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Some authors and writers will admit that they take advantage of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, ArtisticLicense, the RuleOfCool, the RuleOfFunny, or any of the other [[RuleOfIndex Rules of Whatever]]. Some acknowledge freely that RealityIsUnrealistic, and admit that it affects the choices they make in their works. And the The audience, in turn, will forgive an Acceptable Break from Reality or two as long as the story is engaging and the contradictions aren't too farfetched. [[ThisIsNotThatTrope This is not so for other authors.]] Those who Falsely Advertise Accuracy claim that their work is carefully researched and entirely accurate, so--with the exception of some fictionalized elements which will be obvious to the reader--what they offer is as factual as the encyclopedia.
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** In the Preface of the Author, Part I, Cervantes first denounces authors who claim that the verses they use in the preface of their books commending that work (a common literary practice at the time) were made by people claimed to be famous poets when it is easily discovered they were not, or worse yet, they were illiterate. And then Cervantes proceeds to make some commendatory verses of his own, and attribute them to wizards, knights, and damsels of other books. The following quote from a friend to Cervantes advises him to use this trope (and to ignore the critics):
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** In the Preface of the Author, Part I, Cervantes first denounces authors who claim that the verses they use in the preface of their books commending that work (a common literary practice at the time) were made by people claimed to be famous poets when it is easily discovered they were not, or worse yet, they were illiterate. And then Then Cervantes proceeds to make some commendatory verses of his own, and attribute them to wizards, knights, and damsels of other books. The following quote from a friend to Cervantes advises him to use this trope (and to ignore the critics):
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** The [[Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth miniseries]] cuts completely the book's Spanish adventure, where Aliena walks the entire Way of St. James (with a suckling baby!) searching for Jack and it comes across as even less of a challenge than it is today, rather than the life-threatening event it was in the Middle Ages. And she manages by learning some Spanish, even though Spain was not unified politically nor linguistically in the 1140s (in fact, the oldest travel guide ever, Aymeric Picaud's ''Liber Sancti Jacobi'' from the same decade, insists heavily on the international nature of the pilgrimage and includes a list of useful Basque-Latin translations).
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** The [[Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth miniseries]] cuts completely the book's Spanish adventure, where Aliena walks the entire Way of St. James (with a suckling baby!) searching for Jack and it comes across as even less of a challenge than it is today, rather than the life-threatening event it was in the Middle Ages. And she She manages by learning some Spanish, even though Spain was not unified politically nor linguistically in the 1140s (in fact, the oldest travel guide ever, Aymeric Picaud's ''Liber Sancti Jacobi'' from the same decade, insists heavily on the international nature of the pilgrimage and includes a list of useful Basque-Latin translations).
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* ''Music Quiz 2'': "Which of these composers were not from the Classical era?": the "correct" answer is Strauss, which is okay as far as it goes (the two Johanns were from the Romantic era, Richard was from the Modern), but another of the possible choices is Bach, and the most famous Bach was from (indeed, almost defined) the Baroque, which ''predates'' the Classical. The Classical period is sometimes defined as from the death of papa Bach (1750) to the death of Beethoven (1827); it's followed by the Romantic.
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%% ZCE; where's the claim of accuracy? * ''Music Quiz 2'': "Which of these composers were not from the Classical era?": the "correct" answer is Strauss, which is okay as far as it goes (the two Johanns were from the Romantic era, Richard was from the Modern), but another of the possible choices is Bach, and the most famous Bach was from (indeed, almost defined) the Baroque, which ''predates'' the Classical. The Classical period is sometimes defined as from the death of papa Bach (1750) to the death of Beethoven (1827); it's followed by the Romantic.
