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Pseudohistory is the historical equivalent of pseudoscience. Pseudohistory typically blends together real history with myths and legends, without any attempt at criticism or fact checking. Pseudohistory often serves a political, nationalist or religious agenda.The following have all been described as pseudohistory:
Afrocentrism, creationism, and the works of Erich von Däniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, and the mythology of most religions.
See also:
- Deep England
- List of dubious historical resources
- Historical myths
- Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), author of Atlantica, in which he tries to prove that ScandinaviaScandinavia is the cultural and historic region of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden and Denmark, which mutually recognize each other as parts of Scandinavia. The collective label "Scandinavia" reflects the cultural is really identical to the mythical AtlantisAtlantis was a legendary ancient culture and island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said that it was destroyed by a natural disaster (possibly an earth.
- Holocaust denialRichard Harwood's Did Six Million Really Die Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism Holocaust deniers prefer to (also called Holocaust revisionism)
- PseudoarchaeologyPseudoarchaeology is an aspect of pseudohistory. Both of them are forms of pseudoscience and refer to the ideologically-driven, usually sensational interpretation of the past. Pseudoarchaeology is based on an interpretation of material remains and sites (
- New ChronologyThe New Chronology of Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko is an attempt to rewrite world chronology, based on his conclusion that world chronology as we know it today is flawed, put together by unscientific methods. In his revision, Fomenko shares the belief of H
- National mysticismAlthough it's somehow vague, the expression National mysticism or occultism can be used to delimit a whole series of claims, misbeliefs or fallacies regarding a specific or various ethnic groups. It could be said that "National Mysticism" delimits all tho
- Epsilon TeamThe Epsilon Team (In Greek: , Omada Epsilon) is an urban legend about a probably entirely imaginary secret society consisting of an elite team of Greek engineers, academics, pilots, powerful businessmen and politicians etc. manufacturing and piloting UFOs (an ultra-nationalistic exagerration of Greek History mixed with conspiracy theories)
- Nazismswastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). Black, white, and red were in fact the colors of the old North German Confederation flag (invented by Otto von Bismarck, based on the Prussian co, Aryan race etc
- Greater Serbia
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