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Old 03-23-2012, 10:16 AM   #64
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The standards thing I always find a bit amusing. Especially the arguments over how something must be valid just because it's been around longer. One of my favorite examples was the height of the statue of David. Every print source from the last couple hundred years or so is wrong. By a lot. Nobody ever thought to actually check, they just referenced the last person with the wrong number. All the way back to some guy who eyeballed it and wrote an estimate in a notebook.

As for peer reviewed sources for university papers, must be nice to have access. A trip to the library would cost me more time and money than I can afford to waste, the school library is no use for anything outside a narrow focus, and besides that I don't have time to go to campus all that often. Online is pretty much my only resource most of the time.
Ha, I did not know that.

I take a amateur interest in early American history and I love Mann's 1491 and 1493 books, but it's interesting to note how many print textbooks are just flat wrong about a LOT of early American history.
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