Winston Churchill Didn't Exist

According to several news articles and Sky News, an alarming number of Brits think that:

• Churchill, Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens are myths


• Sherlock Holmes was real and really lived in Baker Street


• Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra and Richard the Lionheart didn't really exist either

If this trend continues, perhaps in two hundred years time, people will think that:

• Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush were the figments of an author's disturbed imagination


• J.R. Ewing and Harry Potter were historical figures


• Desperate Housewives was a fly-on-the-wall documentary

In these days of soap operas and reality TV, the line between fact and fiction, myth and reality is becoming increasingly blurred...or maybe we're just getting dumber.

Related Links

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080204/tuk-brits-think-churchill-didn-t-exist-45dbed5.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/04/nhistory104.xml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512087&in_page_id=1770