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... ответил Корнею Чуковскому ребенок, которому по модной в начале 30-х теории не читали сказок. Как оказалось, не бывает также и Ричарда Львиное Сердце и Уинстона Черчилля. Зато Шерлок Холмс по мнению 58% англичан - историческая личность. Опрос проведен телестудией UK TV Gold.
Top ten historical figures that the British public thinks are myths
1) Richard the Lionheart – 47%
2) Winston Churchill – 23%
3) Florence Nightingale – 23%
4) Bernard Montgomery – 6%
5) Boudica - 5%
6) Sir Walter Raleigh – 4%
7) Duke of Wellington - 4%
8) Cleopatra - 4%
9) Gandhi – 3%
10) Charles Dickins - 3%
Top ten fictional characters that the British public thinks are real
* 1) King Arthur – 65%
* 2) Sherlock Holmes – 58%
* 3) Robin Hood – 51%
* 4) Eleanor Rigby – 47%
* 5) Mona Lisa -35%
* 6) Dick Turpin – 34%
* 7) Biggles – 33%
* 8) The Three Musketeers – 17%
* 9) Lady Godiva – 12%
* 10) Robinson Crusoe – 5%
С другой стороны, в популяризированных масс-медиа героях прошлого столько мифического, что соответствие действительности наших представлений об Уинстоне Черчилле и Робине Гуде уже почти одинаковое.
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I was browsing in the excellent Capitol Hill Books, which you should check out being as it's in your neck of the woods. I thought I'd curl up with a Sherlock Holmes, so I looked in the mysteries under D. Nothing. No Sherlock Holmes? Impossible. Maybe it's under C, since he is, after all, usually referred to as Conan Doyle, not Doyle? Nope. I asked a staff member. "It's under H, for Holmes." "But-- but-- it's alphabetical by author!" Yeah, well, apparently people look under Holmes, so they put the books there.
Полагаю, на самом деле книгу "приключения Шерлока Холмса" классифицировали как биографию и поставили ее, как и положено, не по фамилии автора, а по фамилии героя.
Top ten historical figures that the British public thinks are myths
1) Richard the Lionheart – 47%
2) Winston Churchill – 23%
3) Florence Nightingale – 23%
4) Bernard Montgomery – 6%
5) Boudica - 5%
6) Sir Walter Raleigh – 4%
7) Duke of Wellington - 4%
8) Cleopatra - 4%
9) Gandhi – 3%
10) Charles Dickins - 3%
Top ten fictional characters that the British public thinks are real
* 1) King Arthur – 65%
* 2) Sherlock Holmes – 58%
* 3) Robin Hood – 51%
* 4) Eleanor Rigby – 47%
* 5) Mona Lisa -35%
* 6) Dick Turpin – 34%
* 7) Biggles – 33%
* 8) The Three Musketeers – 17%
* 9) Lady Godiva – 12%
* 10) Robinson Crusoe – 5%
С другой стороны, в популяризированных масс-медиа героях прошлого столько мифического, что соответствие действительности наших представлений об Уинстоне Черчилле и Робине Гуде уже почти одинаковое.
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alpheratzI was browsing in the excellent Capitol Hill Books, which you should check out being as it's in your neck of the woods. I thought I'd curl up with a Sherlock Holmes, so I looked in the mysteries under D. Nothing. No Sherlock Holmes? Impossible. Maybe it's under C, since he is, after all, usually referred to as Conan Doyle, not Doyle? Nope. I asked a staff member. "It's under H, for Holmes." "But-- but-- it's alphabetical by author!" Yeah, well, apparently people look under Holmes, so they put the books there.
Полагаю, на самом деле книгу "приключения Шерлока Холмса" классифицировали как биографию и поставили ее, как и положено, не по фамилии автора, а по фамилии героя.
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Три мушкетера были настоящими историческими персонажами! Правда, все остальное Дюма придумал сам.
(Кстати, ты видел, что мне написала ?
I was browsing in the excellent Capitol Hill Books, which you should check out being as it's in your neck of the woods. I thought I'd curl up with a Sherlock Holmes, so I looked in the mysteries under D. Nothing. No Sherlock Holmes? Impossible. Maybe it's under C, since he is, after all, usually referred to as Conan Doyle, not Doyle? Nope. I asked a staff member. "It's under H, for Holmes." "But-- but-- it's alphabetical by author!" Yeah, well, apparently people look under Holmes, so they put the books there.
I would think if you're going to accept the Holmes myth that completely, the letter to look under would be W. In any case, it's clear that Holmes is realer to many (most?) people than is his creator.)
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Did not know about Три мушкетера были настоящими историческими персонажами.
(BTW UC: cut-and-paste! I also cut-and-pasted the "cut-and-paste"!)
The second part is really funny. But: HP should have looked under S first. For Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.
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