I love those little known historical facts we never learned in school. Like according to recent animated movies about the Vikings (How to Train Your Dragon) The old Vikings had Scottish accents and their teenage kids all sounded like they came from California. In the BBC television show I Claudius, the Romans all spoke with an English accent and Jon Luke Piccard was a Roman centenarian before he took over as commander of the Enterprise in Star Trek the Next Generation.
There is an old saying that History is written by the victors of the wars. And depending on what time in history a book or movie is made depends on how groups of people are viewed in the work of fiction.
About 40 years ago Mad magazine did a funny look at the differences of WWII war movies made during the war and after. One has to wonder how historians will paint our current events 100 years from now.
In the mean time we can reinvent history and tweak the times like in the movie The Inglourious Bastards.
What If? One of my favorite ways to play the mind games when I am in a down time like in a doctors waiting room. What if someone had killed Hitler in 1925, What if the Write Brothers tweaked their design and came up with a different design and it did not work, what if...what if what if...It goes on forever and is really amazing what plots you can come up with and is a fun way to spend time when you are wasting time.
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