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POPSRich Dictator, Poor People Chávez imposes his Bolivarian curriculum, which intends to promote Chavista ideology and eliminate the democratic history of Venezuela. Instead of focusing on educational standards, schools today are becoming miniature military boot camps. It is no surprise that literacy rates are dropping.Children with green uniforms and red berets are handling guns and shouting, “Fatherland, Socialism or Death.” This horrifying phenomenon is fueled by Chávez’s determination to condition the Venezuelan youth into believing his own skewed interpretation of history, through which they will likely become little soldiers for his cause.
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POPSSouth Pointing Chariot - Ancient Chinese Invention It was invented, forgotten, re-invented, and modified many times throughout Chinese history. While none of the historic South Pointing Chariots remain, full sized replicas can be found, along with smaller sized working models (some have even been made with LEGO's).
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POPSGalileo's Experiment This was one of the first controlled scientific experiments. Like most of today's experiments, it was imperfect. But this experiment changed Galileo, and it changed history.
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POPSDoes War Influence Ingenuity? We're told that "necessity is the mother of invention," but history doesn't really bear that out. The true mother of invention is our powerful driving internal need to invent. We invent because we want to invent. It's freedom that's the real mother of invention.
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POPS 6 truths about slavery So much revisionism about this period of time. My favorite revision is that the South were fighting for states rights. No, they were not. They were fighting to maintain the institution of slavery, plain and simple. Every state in the south stated as much in their notices to secede. However, that is not the only point of which people are ignorant. There is little accuracy left about the history of this time. Hopefully future historians will straighten it all out.
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