Things that are widely believed, but not true

[Kyng]

A lot of people think Rosa Parks was the first African-American to defy segregation, by refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. However, she wasn't the first: Claudette Colvin did the same thing nine months previously.

The reason why it didn't have the same impact was because Colvin was a pregnant 15-year-old - and the civil rights movement thought that making a fuss about it would've harmed their cause (because everyone would've talked about the pregnancy, rather than the segregation). So, instead, they waited for someone else without that baggage to do the same thing - and Rosa Parks was that person.

[JHG]

Bruce Ishmay did nothing wrong. He’s just been unfairly misblamed for the Titanic when nobody could have predicted the disaster.

[Kyng]

Bruce Ishmay did nothing wrong. He’s just been unfairly misblamed for the Titanic when nobody could have predicted the disaster.

See point #4 of the opening post:

4. Keep all posts fact-based in nature. This isn't an "Unpopular opinions" thread: it's for things that are widely-believed but demonstrably untrue, rather than widely-held opinions that you disagree with.

To be honest, the way your post was framed, I think it's too opinion-based for this thread. Although, if you have any relevant facts relating to Ismay, then they can be posted here. (Or if they don't fit in this thread, then it might be worth starting your own thread for them)

[Zerg Rush]

Parrot speech is commonly regarded as the brainless squawking of a feathered voice recorder. But studies over the past 30 years continually show that parrots engage in much more than mere mimicry. Parrots are capable of logical leaps and can solve certain linguistic processing tasks as deftly as 4-6 year-old children. Parrots appear to grasp concepts like "same" and "different," "bigger" and "smaller", "none" and numbers. They understand zero Perhaps most interestingly, they can combine labels and phrases in novel ways. A January 2007 study in Language Sciences suggests using patterns of parrot speech learning to develop artificial speech skills in robots.
https://www.livescience.com/3907-birdbra...ncept.html

[Kyng]

Parrot speech is commonly regarded as the brainless squawking of a feathered voice recorder. But studies over the past 30 years continually show that parrots engage in much more than mere mimicry. Parrots are capable of logical leaps and can solve certain linguistic processing tasks as deftly as 4-6 year-old children. Parrots appear to grasp concepts like "same" and "different," "bigger" and "smaller", "none" and numbers. They understand zero Perhaps most interestingly, they can combine labels and phrases in novel ways. A January 2007 study in Language Sciences suggests using patterns of parrot speech learning to develop artificial speech skills in robots.
https://www.livescience.com/3907-birdbra...ncept.html

Ah yes, I remember Alex ! I remember he was introduced to an apple (having not seen it before), and he called it a 'banerry', which was a combination of 'banana' and 'berry' (both of which he had seen before).

Quite impressive reasoning... it's a pity Alex passed away !

[JHG]

No, Rock type Pokémon are not immune to Electric. It’s just that Rock/Ground Pokémon were just very common in Generation I and the fossil Pokémon(that were WEAK to Electric) were not common. Early guide books and anime episodes did fall into this trap(like when Pikachu’s lightning did nothing to a Kabutops when it should’ve been hurting like a flaming semi-trailer to the face.)

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Parrot speech is commonly regarded as the brainless squawking of a feathered voice recorder. But studies over the past 30 years continually show that parrots engage in much more than mere mimicry. Parrots are capable of logical leaps and can solve certain linguistic processing tasks as deftly as 4-6 year-old children. Parrots appear to grasp concepts like "same" and "different," "bigger" and "smaller", "none" and numbers. They understand zero Perhaps most interestingly, they can combine labels and phrases in novel ways. A January 2007 study in Language Sciences suggests using patterns of parrot speech learning to develop artificial speech skills in robots.
https://www.livescience.com/3907-birdbra...ncept.html

Ah yes, I remember Alex ! I remember he was introduced to an apple (having not seen it before), and he called it a 'banerry', which was a combination of 'banana' and 'berry' (both of which he had seen before).

Quite impressive reasoning... it's a pity Alex passed away !

I am too. Parrots are very intelligent creatures, in a similar level also Crows. Parrots and Cockatoos also understand the concept music and rythm. Best example is Snowball, a Cockatoo with own Wikipedia and scientific publications entries because of this.



https://www.newscientist.com/article/220...-invented/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_(cockatoo)

[JHG]

There wasn't a "draft" or "conscription" in Medieval Europe. Xiran Jay Zhao explains this in their historical analyses of the Disney Mulan films but remember this levy based system works for Medieval Europe just as well for Imperial China. Basically, there is the warrior class called knights who depending on the time period were either heavy cavalry or a combination of that and mounted infantry. The medieval foot soldiers had to provide for their own equipment like armor and weapons and generally only went to war if their overlord summoned them to.

[Kyng]

There wasn't a "draft" or "conscription" in Medieval Europe. Xiran Jay Zhao explains this in their historical analyses of the Disney Mulan films but remember this levy based system works for Medieval Europe just as well for Imperial China. Basically, there is the warrior class called knights who depending on the time period were either heavy cavalry or a combination of that and mounted infantry. The medieval foot soldiers had to provide for their own equipment like armor and weapons and generally only went to war if their overlord summoned them to.

Doesn't surprise me, really - the concept of a 'draft' doesn't really fit into the feudal system, where the monarch wouldn't have the power to impose one .

(Of course, not every realm was feudal - there were the merchant republics, for example - but I guess a lot of their men were too busy trading to be drafted into war )

[JHG]

Honestly, the knight in shining armor is more of an early Imperial Age/Post-Medieval thing than Medieval since full suits of plate were introduced very late in the Medieval era. Also, they coexisted with and used early gunpowder firearms so guns did NOT make knights extinct.