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  2. List of common misconceptions about history - Wikipedia

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    The life expectancy among adults was much higher; [20] a 21-year-old man in medieval England, for example, could expect to live to the age of 64. [21] [20] However, in various places and eras, life expectancy was noticeably lower. For example, monks often died in their 20s or 30s.

  3. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    The use of fallacies is common when the speaker's goal of achieving common agreement is more important to them than utilizing sound reasoning. When fallacies are used, the premise should be recognized as not well-grounded, the conclusion as unproven (but not necessarily false), and the argument as unsound.

  4. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The human brain, particularly the prefrontal cortex, does not reach "full maturity" or "full development" at any particular age (e.g. 16, 18, 21, 25, 30). Changes in structure and myelination of gray matter are recorded to continue with relative consistency all throughout life including until death.

  5. Pseudodoxia Epidemica - Wikipedia

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    Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne challenging and refuting the "vulgar" or common errors and superstitions of his age. It first appeared in 1646 and went through five subsequent editions, the ...

  6. Errors and Expectations - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 2: Handwriting and punctuation. After briefly discussing handwriting, the bulk of the chapter (27 of 29 pages) focuses on the myriad ways in which basic writers use and misuse punctuation. In order to understand the logic behind the errors, Shaughnessy explores the concept of the sentence and the differences between spoken and written ...

  7. Historical negationism - Wikipedia

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    Section and the authoritarian dictatorships in South Korea during 1960s–1980s.The Ministry of Education announced that it would put the secondary-school history textbook under state control; "This was an inevitable choice in order to straighten out historical errors and end the social dispute caused by ideological bias in the textbooks ...

  8. List of common misconceptions about the Middle Ages

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    However, that portrait of history only goes back to the early 19th century and was invented by Washington Irving in his book A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828). The idea further gained popularity in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries during the beginning of the debates over evolution.

  9. File:European History.pdf - Wikipedia

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    The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint). Licensing Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover ...