Is it Facts or Fiction in History?

Even to Relationships With Current Events

26 September 2007

by HRH Deborah

In the early spring, shortly after 5:00 a.m., a great earthquake struck a rollicking coastal city and a long narrow band of towns, villages, and countryside to the north-northwest and south-southeast. Many buildings were wrecked; hundreds of people were killed; electric power lines and gas mains were broken. Fires broke out and burned wildly for days, utterly out of control because of severed water mains.

The above description you may say this never happened, or where is it's place in history or the fact that maybe events in history do not overlap. Even to how is this possible?

If you are thinking all the above statements are true you would be completely mistaken. Just like one thing I never really cared for in a school textbook. While they may give you an event in history they may elevate information to condense for the book. Slant the event in history, this way or that way to fit a particular agenda to suit let’s say a political situation. Doing this also doesn’t necessary, make the event true or give the necessary information of what really happened.

Just like propaganda, their has to be ten percent truth and ninety percent is a bold face lie, for it to be accepted by people who follow this form of media.

When someone wish’s to know the whole situation in a given event especially in history, sometimes it takes a lot of work, digging into countless documents and books, to even sometimes visit the place the event may have taken place for example to gain a better understanding of what really took place; sometimes contrary to what some people think is so and that is all.

So to accuse a person that a statement they make about a situation or a given event especially in history, never rule out if it is true or not just because of something that was considered the norm; because very well they bothered to learn the actual facts to the event or a different perspective of what very well actually happened. They may have information that was lost for example when a museum or library was burned in a war setting or oral information passed down from one generation to the next.

To answer the question, on the above statement, the date was April 18, 1906 in San Francisco; which was an event of a devastating earthquake that was said at the time to rock the Western seaboard. This was a time when people were just starting to understand about the devastation of earthquakes.

So before one disperses the information out the window into the wind, find out the facts.

Finally, do not forget if everyone took history at face value archeologist, researchers and scientist would be out of business in these fields.