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mxfh11/20/20241 replyview on HN

Would say I prefer comedy/satire, since you don't run into the danger zone of historical dramas, where you mistake artistic story alterations for dramatic effect for some historically factual narrative.

Those are hard to rectify once internalized, and have a tendency to even overshadow historical research for the general public.


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graemep11/21/2024

> Those are hard to rectify once internalized, and have a tendency to even overshadow historical research for the general public

The "people told Columbus the earth is flat" is one that is still repeated by people who should know better.

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