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Oh, come to think of it, I remember the biggest omission in school. The Flu Epidemic in 1918. I'm surprised I didn't remember this earlier, seeing as I figure if any of the Edwardian boys survive the war, they'd probably not make it through the flu. But I *never* heard a single mention of the flu in HS, and we did study that time period. I mean, not learning anything past 1945/50 is one thing--we ran out of time before we got up to that time. But we studied WWI and WWII, so when I graduated high school and was mid way through college, and found an article much like that in the Smithsonian, I think, I was like, "they're joking, right?" That many people die--possibly twice as many as black death, which we did learn about in school--and it wasn't even mentioned. It really annoyed me when I figured out that we'd never even been told about it. And I still don't have any clue why it wasn't even just *mentioned*. I mean, did I just miss that day?