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Episode 120: You Can’t Write “History” Until You Learn It! Of course around the world in eighty days is only historic fiction!
The William Tell Overture Courtesy of Banjo HangOut. I just love it when they get it WRONG! The current production of Around The World in Eighty Days on so-called “educational TV”, is a prime example of sloppy writing.Tonight’s Episode Phileas Fogg in New York City — you know the home of the nation's second-best salsa.A boarding officer of The Henrietta, informs a waiting passenger “You have twenty minutes…,” After glancing at his wrist.Problema/Sp. Around The World in Eighty Days© Written in (1872) GIRARD-PERREGAUX produced the first wrist devices for the German Navy in 1898 & they didn’t come into common use for men until The First World World War, after 1914. British officers favored them over the more common pocket watch. In the same episode, Phileas Fogg is shown reading a cablegram at sea, wireless radio had to await Marconi 1895. FYI/in 1943 The Supreme Court of The United States overturned Marconi’s patent & declared Nikola Tesla, et al the inventor of the wireless radio.
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By John MaGuirk
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The William Tell Overture Courtesy of Banjo HangOut. I just love it when they get it WRONG! The current production of Around The World in Eighty Days on so-called “educational TV”, is a prime example of sloppy writing.Tonight’s Episode Phileas Fogg in New York City — you know the home of the nation's second-best salsa.A boarding officer of The Henrietta, informs a waiting passenger “You have twenty minutes…,” After glancing at his wrist.Problema/Sp. Around The World in Eighty Days© Written in (1872) GIRARD-PERREGAUX produced the first wrist devices for the German Navy in 1898 & they didn’t come into common use for men until The First World World War, after 1914. British officers favored them over the more common pocket watch. In the same episode, Phileas Fogg is shown reading a cablegram at sea, wireless radio had to await Marconi 1895. FYI/in 1943 The Supreme Court of The United States overturned Marconi’s patent & declared Nikola Tesla, et al the inventor of the wireless radio.