Quote Originally Posted by bubba
Matt, you really have to be careful with History Channel programs. Their "history" can be very questionable at times and they tend to stretch things out of shape and proportion for the sake of being entertaining quite often. It is a good source to start from fairly often in extra reading and research though. Sometimes I make a game of finding their errors and plain bad history.
Something I read once:

Wife: "What are you watching?"
Husband: "The history channel."
Wife: "What have you learned?"
Husband: "World War Two is the only thing that ever happened."

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