/2010/05/will-the-last-barbarian-poetically-turn-out-the-light/ Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 /2010/05/will-the-last-barbarian-poetically-turn-out-the-light/#comment-5740 Hans Wed, 18 May 2011 14:30:26 +0000 /?p=13125#comment-5740 Good article! The photo of "barbarians" from the History Channel made me laugh though. If these are supposed to be Vikings, the horned helmet thing has no basis in historical fact. Then again, the H.C. does this a lot: a show about Medieval England in which we see what life was like back then via film footage from Victorian London; a show depictingTsar Peter the Great writing a letter with a 19th century kerosene lamp on his desk; a show about the Salem witch trials in which we see doors with modern hardware on them and people wearing modern glasses; a show set in the 18th century with electrical cords trailing down from "candle lamps"....a show...oh, you get it. Good article! The photo of “barbarians” from the History Channel made me laugh though. If these are supposed to be Vikings, the horned helmet thing has no basis in historical fact. Then again, the H.C. does this a lot: a show about Medieval England in which we see what life was like back then via film footage from Victorian London; a show depictingTsar Peter the Great writing a letter with a 19th century kerosene lamp on his desk; a show about the Salem witch trials in which we see doors with modern hardware on them and people wearing modern glasses; a show set in the 18th century with electrical cords trailing down from “candle lamps”….a show…oh, you get it.

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