The Gillington Formula (also known as "Mathematics and Historical Blunders") has now been updated and includes all four movies. Wrong Kings, missing Queens, anachronistic uniforms and ignored earthquakes - it's all there!
THE GILLINGTON FORMULA The specification of the historical timeframe for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies is not easy.
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this made me smile eben though I barely know who most of the characters are - except Norrington of course ( well I am a friend of volgivagant so there would be no way no to have awareness of the lovely Norrington
and I like the gratuitous mention of Nelson- I had been consulting that excellent book British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars earlier today and always call that my " Not- Nelson handbook" .
Sometime we could hold a contest for " most gratuitous entry on Nelson " from books on the period !
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You can't escape Nelson. It's terrible. It's like every naval historian feels s/he has to mention him at least twice on every page. "Collingwood - Nelson's Own Hero"... heh!
I read one "biography" (note " ") about Collingwood which I called "People who knew Nelson and Collingwood", because that was basically the content.
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