...I haven't even started Mein name ist Bach, I have a somewhat higher tolerance for movies than you do but I also have a really large backlog of things I've committed to watch before this, sigh.
My schools weren't nearly as terrible as yours, but skipping eighth grade and changing schools in eleventh grade meant I basically led to my skipping all of the world history classes, so I definitely never learned about Frederick the Great in school. (I think I knew who Machiavelli was, but almost certainly because some fiction book I was reading talked about him.)
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Re: Epic rap battles of history
Date: 2019-10-05 01:18 am (UTC)My schools weren't nearly as terrible as yours, but skipping eighth grade and changing schools in eleventh grade meant I basically led to my skipping all of the world history classes, so I definitely never learned about Frederick the Great in school. (I think I knew who Machiavelli was, but almost certainly because some fiction book I was reading talked about him.)