What's your favorite moment in history

Did they learn that from the lions, or were the guys just smarter than average?

 

mine is wwII

 

everything about those war years is interesting.the war itself.very few places in the world escaped being affected by it.....then there was the music,dances,fashions.of course the people .i think they earned the name the greatest generation.

 

the ragtime era and the vaudeville era in entertainment.i guess they happened about the same time.

 

Not EXACTLY my fav as such,but John Lennon saying ,truefully,in 1966,that The Beatles are more popular than christ.

 

yes i remember that. it caused quite an uproar at the time.i remember when the fab four came to my hometown in the mid 60's.two of my sisters went to the concert.we were just talking recently about it and they said they were surprised my folks let them go.fun times.

 

The breaking out of WWI is now considered to have been inevitable and the triggering of it started already in 1870/1871 and indeed came to an outburst with the assassination of Frans Ferdinand.

 

too many moments to list here, but the one that tends to stand out in my mind this time of year is the storming of the Bastille - vive la revolution!!!

 

When I was born.

 

What about the dutch revolt against the spanish empire!

 

Painting of the defeat of the Spanish armada by the english . Overly romanticized pic by the way, but yeah, it looks cool

 

The Berlin wall coming down. democracy is alive and well even though it doesn't always appear that way

 

it was about time they tore that wall down....i was reading about the painting of the spanish armada above.i read who it is by but i forgot already.short term memory.anyway it's such a dramatic painting and it is fun looking at it.the choppy water,the fire,the clouds and everything.....anyway i'll relate a trip i took a couple years ago .first i went to st. joseph,mo. the house jesse james was killed in.the house has been moved a few blocks from it's original location.it's right next to an old hotel from the 1850's .the hotel also housed the business offices of the pony express.the barn and work area are a couple blocks away.anyway the james house was a good museum to see.then down to kearney,mo.to see where james was born and called home.then down by liberty to see the bank that launched his robbery career.then back to kearney to see the cemetery the james family is buried at.then up to northfield,mn. where they hit a snag with the failed bank robbery in that town.about 40 miles from there in madelia,mn. where some of the gang was captured in some swampy land on the edge of town.interesting sites and many movies have been made about these events. so it was nice seeing what these locales really were like.

 

That painting is great. Love it.

 

seeing a one room schoolhouse is an interesting experience.maybe some of us even attended one.in sudbury,ma. is the redstone school.about 100 years ago it was moved from nearby sterling.in 1817 mary sawyer's pet lamb followed her to school.i've never been there but it is furnished with school equipment of that era.

 

the great crush collision of 1896. railroad agent wm. crush staged a collision of two trains near waco,texas. composer scott joplin wrote the great crush collision march to commemerate the event attended by over 30,000 people.the site of the collision has a historic marker there now.....casey jones crashed near vaughn,mississippi in 1900....the first known train robbery occured near seymour,indiana in 1866....buffalo bill's wild west show travelled extensively by rail.the logistics of putting that big of a show out on the road in those days must have been quite an undertaking.

 

I remember reading that when Buffalo Bill saw the first motion picture, he figured the days of his show were numbered, and began planning to get out of the business. I'm not so sure that was totally true at the time; circuses still did quite well, after all.

It may not be true now, either. He could incorporate it into rodeos or something.

 

going through a ghost town.seeing what remains in that vicinity is a favorite moment in history travel.

 

i used to tour many ghost towns while i was growing up - they are so cool, so otherworldly....like a cross between a museum and a cemetery - i love it!