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Originally Posted by ix.spider.uk
imo the only dubious comment is the internet. rest are accurate.
No they're not.
Nobody can say for sure where poker was created.
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The name of the game likely descended from the Irish Poca (Pron. Pokah) ('Pocket') or even the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to brag as a bluff' lit. 'to knock' [1] ). Yet it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names.
Who invented the airplane is a matter of debate as well, but to say it was invented by someone from Ancient Greece is silly.
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Around 400 BC, Archytas, the Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist, was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have actually flown some 200 meters.[1][2] This machine, which its inventor called The Pigeon (Greek: Περιστέρα "Peristera"), may have been suspended on a wire or pivot for its flight.[3][4]
You're going to credit the invention of the airplane to him? lol. Go out and poll 100 members of the intellectual community/aviation experts/historians/etc. and ask them who invented the airplane. Do you expect the majority of them to say "that Greek guy Archytas in 400 BC, no doubt!"?