St George's Day

I imagine that the locals would have been disappointed to know that St George was a Turkish soldier who probably served in the Roman army (with suitable armour) and never got close to England, never mind lived here. They might have guessed that the dragon thing was a bit of a fib though.

It's like St Patrick's Day, 17th March. Millions celebrate it, but he was English until he was sixteen. Captured as a slave, he turned to his faith. Stowing away on a boat, he returned to England, then trained to be a priest, returned to Ireland in 432AD and went on from there. History is more or less a pack of lies, events that never happened, told by people who weren't there and rely on other people, who also were never there. Facts like that were drummed into us at school, a myriad reasons why events or people from the past are misrepresented or misunderstood. So much of this historically speaking is distortion and the Victorian historians are to blame for much of it.

Too true Kaga, much of what is believed to be "history" is just one point of view. For example, I have an English translation of a 1970s Soviet textbook about World War Two. First of all it's "The Great Patriotic War", and secondly Britain doesn't figure too highly in Germany's defeat. But it's their point of view, and that was accepted history in the 1970s Soviet Union.

Some things are true, whether you believe in them or not.