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What is your favorite historical time period/episode?
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:44 pm
I can't get enough WWIi, it was such a horrific and fascinating time. I think I'd say Victorian England comes in second, there were so many advances in science and technology and full of fascinating people like Isambard Kingdom Brunel who would do things that seemed impossible,
This post was edited on 3/28/17 at 10:45 pm
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Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
Whatever time period where white men were not considered the source of all evil.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
Whatever time period the Indians were relevant. Those frickers are badass
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
American Revolution
Roaring 20s
Roaring 20s
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
1945-1959 USA seemed pretty fricking legit.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Republican/Imperial Rome
Early modern period 1400-1700 in Europe.
Early modern period 1400-1700 in Europe.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:51 pm to DavidTheGnome
I should have been born fifty years ealier than what I was. I should have been around to kill Nazis in World War II, buy my little house in suburbia, wear my suit and hat to the office, vote for Ike, and own a 1952 DeSoto.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
I'm going to tour the SS Great Britain next month in Bristol.
Brunel was a fart smeller.
I don't have a single favorite historical period, I'm more interested in the time periods I can most easily relate to (mix to late 20th C.) but something like Henry VIII's radical changes to what became the U.K. are really intriguing from a lot of perspectives and it was (almost) half a millennia ago.
Brunel was a fart smeller.
I don't have a single favorite historical period, I'm more interested in the time periods I can most easily relate to (mix to late 20th C.) but something like Henry VIII's radical changes to what became the U.K. are really intriguing from a lot of perspectives and it was (almost) half a millennia ago.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
WW2 for sure, most recent large scale war. Had a lot of photos and written accounts.
Civil War is another interesting period, as at that time, many soldiers had diaries and journals, so you can get great first hand accounts.
Civil War is another interesting period, as at that time, many soldiers had diaries and journals, so you can get great first hand accounts.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:55 pm to PapaPogey
quote:Great documentary on the era, made in 1956 by -- and for -- people for whom it was a living memory
Roaring 20s
The Jazz Age
The breezy narration is from legendary radio comedian Fred Allen
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
From about 1900 to 1920
The martial climate fascinates me.
That meeting of the old world with modernity and the carnage it wrought.
The martial climate fascinates me.
That meeting of the old world with modernity and the carnage it wrought.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 10:56 pm to TheFonz
quote:so who's stopping you
I should have been born fifty years ealier than what I was. I should have been around to kill Nazis in World War II, buy my little house in suburbia, wear my suit and hat to the office, vote for Ike, and own a 1952 DeSoto
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:00 pm to Napoleon
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Civil War is another interesting period, as at that time, many soldiers had diaries and journals, so you can get great first hand accounts.
For some reason I never could get into the Civil War. Every time we were on it in history class my eyes would glaze over and I couldn't wait to move on, and I frickin love history classes. Not sure what it is either, I just can't get interested in it.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:03 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:you a yankee?
For some reason I never could get into the Civil War. Every time we were on it in history class my eyes would glaze over and I couldn't wait to move on, and I frickin love history classes. Not sure what it is either, I just can't get interested in it
quote:yep
Monroe
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:03 pm to DavidTheGnome
As much of a war and history buff as I am the American Civil war never really captured my interest like other conflicts.
Some aspects of it sure, but maybe I was just over saturated with it growing up.
The tactics seemed stale and unimaginative,
Comparatively.
Some aspects of it sure, but maybe I was just over saturated with it growing up.
The tactics seemed stale and unimaginative,
Comparatively.
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 8:04 am
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:09 pm to fr33manator
Imperial Rome
Industrial Revolution
US Civil Rights Movement
Renaissance
Early Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution
US Civil Rights Movement
Renaissance
Early Middle Ages
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:10 pm to DavidTheGnome
Cold War
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:12 pm to Kafka
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yep
I've lived 5 years in Slidell if that gives me any kind of southern La cred?
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:14 pm to fr33manator
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As much as a war and history buff as I am the American Civil war never really captured my interest like other conflicts.
Some aspects of it sure, but maybe I was just over saturated with it growing up.
The tactics seemed stale and unimaginative, Comparatively.
That's how I feel as well. It may have been the presentation that lost my interest rather than the content.
Posted on 3/28/17 at 11:21 pm to DavidTheGnome
Definitely WW2. My grandfather was a master gunnery sergeant in the marines. He talked about it very infrequently. It never ceases to amaze me what people around the world endured during WW2.
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