Are you lot quite sure about the pedigree of conservapedia? Despite most
people's acceptance of it at face value, a lot of it reads like a clever
spoof, and some of it is rather more obviously so... Take a look at the
entry for 'Patriot Act' for example...
David.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Cloke
>Sent: 06 March 2007 13:22
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>Subject: Re: Conservapedia.com - A conservative encyclopedia
>you can trust
>
>
>Agreed. It's a bit like '1066 and all that' except.... they
>really mean it!
>
>
>From: "Canning J." <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Canning J." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Conservapedia.com - A conservative encyclopedia
>you can trust
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:30:00 -0000
>
>Sorry, I can't resist. These are entries in full:
>
>France: A country in Europe. Thrived during the middle ages.
>The capitol is Paris, France, which was founded in the Middle Ages.
>
>Spain:Country located on the Iberian Penninsula. Borderd by
>the Alantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean on the
>east. Portuagal is located on the same penninsuala. Is the
>same country as was in the medieval times. And known for its
>famous explorers
>
>Japan: Group of islands of the western coast of Asia
><http://www.conservapedia.com/Asia> .
>
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>From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Becky Morris
>Sent: 06 March 2007 12:09
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>Subject: Re: Conservapedia.com - A conservative encyclopedia
>you can trust
>
>
>I quite like commandments myself....and the entries for both
>World Wars...and that the entry for 'Church of England'
>includes this: 'In the late 1800s, there was a movement to
>disestablish the Church of England. It failed, but it had the
>incidental effect of giving the English language one of its
>longest words, "antidisestablishmentarianism." ' Retrieved
>from "http://www.conservapedia.com/Church_of_England" (Don't
>ask how I got here...the journey to the Cof E reaped far more
>nuggets than I have time and/or space to fill here! Magic!
>
>"Canning J." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Some good historical entries here.
>
>
> Queen Elizabeth I
> Queen Elizabeth I was succeed by her cousin, James Earl of
> Scotland(James I).
>
> Oliver Cromwell
> Cromwell is perhaps the person other than Jesus who
>declined enormous
> worldly power, in Cromwell's case by voluntarily
>refusing the crown of
> England.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
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> Sent: 06 March 2007 10:30
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> Subject: Conservapedia.com - A conservative
>encyclopedia you can trust
>
> Any of the rest of you come across this extraordinarily
>useful teaching
> tool? Given the disputes about student use of Wikipedia
>this couldn't
> have come at a better time, although it is admittedly a work in
> progress. No more 'grey areas' or subjectivity, just
>hard facts! As an
> example, here's the page on Ancient History...
>
> Introduction to Ancient History
>
> Ancient history, which is everything before about A.D.
>600, created or
> discovered all the major religions today except Islam.
>Ancient history
> created civilization and achieved many of the greatest
>intellectual
> breakthroughs of all time. Literature, drama,
>mathematics, philosophy,
> language, etc., were all created in ancient history.
>
> When did mankind first begin? There is no reliable
>evidence of man
> existing before 3500 B.C. The oldest writing is a
>pictographic tablet
> called a "cuneiform" dated to about 3400 B.C. from Sumer
>(SOO-mur) in
> Southern Mesopotamia (where Iraq is today). These
>cuneiforms look like
> chicken-scratches featuring wedge-like or arrow-shaped
>characters. The
> oldest western-style script is from the Indo-Aryan
>language, and one
> dated to 1550 B.C. was found in the Sinai. The oldest verified
> civilization dates to about 3000 B.C. We can also
>extrapolate backwards
> from modern populations to estimate that only about 300
>million people
> existed in the world at the time of Christ, and
>extrapolating backwards
> further yields only one family in the year 3300 B.C.
>Languages can be
> traced backwards to about 3000 B.C., and some experts
>reconstruct a
> point of origin in southeastern Europe near the Baltic,
>not far from the
> Ararat mountain range cited in the Bible in connection
>with Noah. Old
> trees never predate this time either; the oldest
>sequoias, which never
> die of old age, are only 4000 years old.
>
> No "civilization" has been found that is older than
>about 3000 B.C. By
> "civilization" we mean order and hierarchy in the way
>of life. Some type
> of political system or government is usually necessary to have a
> civilization.
> A structure similar to a city or town is necessary to
>bring together
> people, jobs, buildings or religious centers. Usually there are
> different classes of people, such as rich and poor.
>Some historians say
> there must be an agricultural surplus also: enough food
>to feed the
> people so that some workers could spend time in jobs
>other than farming.
> In a nutshell, a civilization must have cities, skilled
>(non-farming)
> workers, social and government institutions, writing to
>maintain records
> such as property ownership, and advanced technology.
>Memorize the oldest
> dates for the ancient civilizations:
>
> Mesopotamia (Mes-uh-puh-tay-mee-uh): 3500 - 500 B.C.,
>when conquered by
> Persia Egypt: 3100 - 525 B.C., when conquered by the Hyksos
>(HIK-sohs)
> Indus
> (IN-dus) Valley: beginning in 2900 B.C. China:
>beginning in 2200 B.C.
> Mexican Olmec (AWL-mek): 1200 - 300 B.C., the earliest
>known American
> civilization Peru (South America): 900 B.C.
>
> History books speculate at length about "prehistory",
>which predates
> writing. But there is no reliable evidence to support
>this speculation,
> and not worth spending time on. There is no reason to
>think that man
> existed for thousands of years without ever expressing
>himself in
> written form. But in case you are asked, historians
>describe the period
> of time known as "prehistory" as the "Stone Age." They
>divide the Stone
> Age into two time
> periods: "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic". The Paleolithic
>Age is older,
> when man relied mostly on hunting and picking nuts and fruit to
> supplement his diet. The Paleolithic Age was followed
>by the Neolithic
> Age, which consisted of the rise of agriculture. The "Neolithic
> Revolution" means the "Agricultural Revolution," when
>farming became
> dominant. The dates of these ages are controversial,
>and historians have
> a bias for giving them older dates than proven by archaeology.
>
>
>
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