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Applause

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Many years ago, I began to feel that the picture of history that we're taught in school and that is beamed at us through the media might not be right.

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I'm not saying that the alternative view that I've presented is right, but I think it's healthy to try to present an alternative because we have a completely monolithic grip on history by the academic establishment.

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And I think it's a pity because it belongs to all of us. There's no encouragement for open-minded inquiry into extraordinary possibilities.

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And the extraordinary possibility that I've spent a lot of the last 15 years researching is could there have been a major forgotten episode in human history?

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And the map here is the map of the world as it is today.