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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Aug 21, 2014 20:23:29 GMT -4
This discussion of WWI reminds me of some historian who said WWI was the only war in modern history for which he could not find a reasonable explanation or purpose. It was just a tangled web of stupid alliances, and before you knew it, thousands of men were dead. Such a shame.
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Post by koshergrit on Aug 21, 2014 20:47:13 GMT -4
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Post by chonies on Aug 21, 2014 21:58:11 GMT -4
LOL! I made two submissions to Bangable Dudes and neither of them got published. Young or adult Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Franz Boas. Oh well, their loss. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 22:49:42 GMT -4
Bangable Dudes is where I first saw that picture of young Joseph Stalin with all that glorious hair. Though nothing will ever top Lewis Powell for me. Yowza. |
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Post by chonies on Aug 21, 2014 23:01:38 GMT -4
Oh yeah. Joseph "Worse Than Hitler In Many Ways" Stalin as a young hottie is possibly the worst shame of my life. Well, on the list of thought crimes.
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Post by Smilla on Aug 25, 2014 15:56:02 GMT -4
I love this thread! While I am just an amateur history-lover at best, my favorite periods are Medieval Times, U.S. Civil War, early 20th century and the '60s. For now. Lately, even though I've always resisted the era for some reason, I'm getting into the late 18th century and the American Revolutionary War.
Not surprisingly, I'm also thinking I need to re-up my WWI history.
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Post by garnet927 on Aug 25, 2014 16:33:53 GMT -4
I also love this thread. While I was a history major in college, I've been a history-lover since I was a kid reading historical fiction (Jean Plaidy, Anya Seton, etc.). My favorite topics/periods are English royalty, the 19th century, and the 1930's/WWII in American history.
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Post by Auroranorth on Aug 26, 2014 9:22:16 GMT -4
I went through all the Jean Plaidy books when I was in HS. Loved them, but haven't read them in at least a decade.
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Post by smockery on Aug 26, 2014 12:06:22 GMT -4
I own 1066 and All That. The humorist and actual academic Richard Armour also wrote a US history - er, "history" - book called It All Started With Columbus, in the same vein. (For English- and American-lit buffs, Armour wrote some hilarious descriptions of the classics. You'll never see Hamlet the same way again.) He also wrote one on European "history" called It all Started with Europa. I was surprised to find several of his "history" books at a used bookstore a few years ago. They were all pretty funny. My dad was a history major and we grew up with him talking history. On family trips, we always had to stop at the historical markers on the side of the road. I think that helped my fascination with history, but did not make me take it up as a subject in college. |
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Post by ikmccall on Aug 26, 2014 20:57:08 GMT -4
Watching Time Team America on PBS. Three day archaeological dig. Interesting yet frustrating. Cuz it's a three day dig.
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