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Old 07-18-2007, 10:49 PM
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Britain's top educrats just announced a new national history curriculum that makes no mention of Winston Churchill.

Girard may have been a pivotal figure in his day and a generous philanthropist, but to the current crop of historians, he just another dead white guy. And nobody's investing any effort in getting a dead white guy into the curriculum.

Churchill dropped from History curriculum!! Are they friggin nuts? That would be like the U.S. dropping Lincoln or Roosevelt.
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Old 07-18-2007, 11:09 PM
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Britain's top educrats just announced a new national history curriculum that makes no mention of Winston Churchill.

Girard may have been a pivotal figure in his day and a generous philanthropist, but to the current crop of historians, he just another dead white guy. And nobody's investing any effort in getting a dead white guy into the curriculum.


But although Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Martin Luther King have also been dropped from the detailed guidance accompanying the curriculum, Sir Winston's exclusion is likely to leave traditionalists aghast.


May as well save room and not even discuss WW II.
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Old 07-18-2007, 11:22 PM
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Pretty cool graphic.

Personally, I find the history of the Vanderbilt family very intriguing, especially the humble beginnings of The Commodore. I think he's a perfect case of being in the right place at the right time. If we was alive today, we'd probably find him pooping in Rittenhouse Square, but he just happened to be the right man for his day. Fascinating.

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don't know about the pooper. He might run the Cherry St bus company (the one that wasn't shut down). He ran "illegal ferries" much cheaper than his subsidized competitor, Fulton, who was granted monopoly rights. his ferries were illegal because he was competing. He got his costs so low you could ride across the hudson for free as long as you spent a certain amount on food and drink. Interestingly, or not, putting Frick in charge of the Homestead strike was Carnegie's only regret from his business days. A lot of these gys had humble beginnings. We need Mellon back n the treasury now.
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