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Coventina

(29,950 posts) Tue Dec 6, 2022, 12:50 AM Dec 2022

I'm covering the Middle Ages in one of my classes. [View all]

I got a note from a student telling me she thought the Vikings were made up and weren't real.

Thank goodness she took my class!
Now she knows the truth!!

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I'm covering the Middle Ages in one of my classes. [View all] Coventina Dec 2022 OP

They didn't wear helmets with horns, either. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #1

True! But they did make to North America!! Coventina Dec 2022 #2

She never heard of Fran Tarkenton? blm Dec 2022 #3

Hahahaha!!! Coventina Dec 2022 #4

😉 blm Dec 2022 #5

Thanks for helping another flat-earther before she gets out there Better Days Ahoy Dec 2022 #6

I liked this series of lectures from Wondrium exboyfil Dec 2022 #7

Wondrium RobinA Dec 2022 #21

Thanks exboyfil Dec 2022 #22

Do you cover the Knights Templar and all of that period? brush Dec 2022 #8

I cover the Crusades, but not Knights Templar specifically. Coventina Dec 2022 #16

SOME of it is made up Skittles Dec 2022 #9

No horned helmets. That was a Wagner invention. Coventina Dec 2022 #17

She probably heard about the Norse gods and Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #10

Ever since the stupid Viking series, things have gotten outta control LeftInTX Dec 2022 #14

There's so much bullshit about people from history, Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #15

Been here: Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #11

Very cool!!! Coventina Dec 2022 #18

if you come, get a pro tour guide. Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #19

You do know that Egypt is a whistler162 Dec 2022 #23

As my Republican coworkers have proclaimed... Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2022 #12

Well, if your student gets their info from TV, I can see why!! LeftInTX Dec 2022 #13

Of course you know Coventina but Prairie_Seagull Dec 2022 #20