A classic line from one of my father's letters: "Your mother is reading a book that says Richard III didn't murder his two nephews. She'd never believe it if she'd seen Barrymore play him."

While we're at it, what happened to the Lost Colony? What were Aaron Burr and George Blennerhesset really up to? Did Dr. Mudd know whose leg he was setting? Who really killed Huey Long? Here's a biggie. If a Vulcan had landed on earth in the fifteenth century, he would have figured that in the 21st century, the Arabs and the Chinese would be on their way to Mars, while the barbarians of Europe would be struggling to heat their homes.
Said Vulcan would, of course, have been wrong.
So, what went wrong in China and the Middle east?