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== Literature ==
* In The ''[[Dresden Files]]'' book ''[[The Dresden Files/Dead Beat|Dead Beat]]'' said that people didn't accept the earth was round until someone circumnavigated it. The first Circumnavigation started in 1519 and ended in 1522 (AD of course). This is of course after Columbus sailed the ocean blue under the accepted consensus that the planet was round (while simultaneously rejecting the consensus of the estimation of the planet's size). ~240 BCE Eratosthenes tried to calculate the circumstance of the earth and didn't do a terrible job of it either! Certainly better than Columbus did. The Western and Islamic
* [[Dan Brown]]: Too many to list here—Dan Brown's [[Did Not Do the Research|research failures]] (in history in particular) have made him a [[Dan Browned|trope namer]], and have their [[Dan Browned/Dan Brown|very own page]].
* ''The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation'' by Lin Carter has a scene where Abdul Alhazred ingests Black Lotus in order to see visions of the past. Among other things, he sees scenes from [[The Crusades]] where Saladin fights at Jerusalem. The problem? The text states clearly that Alhazred died in AD 738. [[wikipedia:Saladin|Saladin]] was born in AD 1138. (Granted, [[Time Travel]] is a part of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], so it is possible that the Black Lotus can show visions from the future as well as the past. But Alhazred describes the Crusades as a perfectly well-known event that the reader is expected to be familiar with. If he were seeing scenes from the far future, you'd think he would remark on it.)
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