Originally posted by mine_man:

Madman - you would probably know this - did the UK recently officially change the use of the word "terrorism" to "Anti-Islamic Activity"?

-- The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.

-- 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up.

-- 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Holmes actually existed