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the Sixth of April, 2004 |
A worrying survey of historical accuracy,
and how it's been polluted by Hollywood revisionism - 32% of
Britons polled believe that the Cold War was fictional, and 11%
think Hitler is just a recurring
film-industry in-joke.
But it's difficult to know how seriously to take any of this - that 6%
claimed War of the Worlds to be a factual historical event
presumably just means that "6% of people aren't familiar with the book
or film and think it sounds like a good name for a war, when given a
list of wars and some tickboxes". If three million people in this country
genuinely believe that we were invaded by Martians in the 19th century,
then I want Colin Pillinger arrested.
[via Spool]
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| Monday |
the Fifth |
I noticed this lone Space
Invader mosaiced into a shop wall
somewhere south of Notre Dame, last summer - I now learn, with unnerving
retroactivity, that it was actually part of
an ongoing worldwide invasion, an urban art project where people tile
tiny invaders all around a city and (I presume) check back later to see
how many have been successfully destroyed by its residents and
authorities and weather. There's a gloriously yellowed street map that
charts the entire Paris invasion.
(They've also hit London twice.)
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