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Menzies was inspired to write 1421 after a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, China with his wife Marcella for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. [15] Gavin Menzies had the idea to write his first book after he and his wife Marcella visited the Forbidden City for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Menzies noticed that they kept ...
In his debunked pseudohistorical book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, British author Gavin Menzies claimed that the treasure fleets of Ming admiral Zheng He arrived in America in 1421. [69]
In his debunked pseudohistorical book 1421: The Year China Discovered America, [48] amateur historian Gavin Menzies falsely claimed that when Chinese admiral Zheng He's fleet was in the process of circumnavigating the globe in 1421–3, it stopped at Bimini. According to Menzies, half of the fleet, under the command of admiral Zhou Wen, was ...
In 2002, the debunked pseudohistorian Gavin Menzies speculated that the ship was a modified Chinese junk. He pointed to the reports that it was made of a 'dark wood' and was 'of an unconventional design'. [29] He also claimed that local Aborigines had a tradition that "yellow men" had at one time come from the wreck. The claims of Chinese ...
A series of announcements by DOGE and claims by Musk and Trump about the agency’s efforts have crumbled under scrutiny, even as they’re repeated by the White House.
Meek may have not debunked the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory himself, but plenty of reputable journalists have: Both the New York Times and Snopes reported in November 2016 that the conspiracy ...
Author Gavin Menzies argues in his pseudohistorical book 1421: The Year China Discovered America that the tower was built by a colony of Chinese sailors and concubines from the junks of Zheng He's voyages either as a lighthouse or as an observatory to determine the longitude of the colony, based on Penhallow's findings. [34]
Misleading videos of President Joe Biden at the G7 conference continued to go viral for days even after debunkings and fact-checks tried to correct the record.