What's your favorite moment in history

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peaceful??

 

when albert einstein curved space

 

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Woohoo..Lurch

The greatest actor on contemporary american film.
Especailly when he opened doors.

 

My favorite moment in history was when I went all the way with my girl friend Sarah one night out at the architectural project grounds (1/2 mile NE of campus) and she kept going "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you." It was terrific. I haven't forgotten her, and maybe she hasn't forgotten me, these forty years later.

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Other great moments: The Big Bang, or is that pre-history?​

The dissolution of the Soviet Union (1 January 1992).​

 

The last first contact. When in 1932 a group of whites discovered the last true isolated primitive peoples. These natives were completely unaware of anything outside their island and were baffled when they saw the "ghostly" whites and their gadgets.

When you think about this it truly leaves you in aw.

 

when i was born

 

when Hitler commited suicide depressed by the strength and courage of the russian army...

 

Nepo

WOW.. thats a real piece of historical conditioning.
Occam points out tha the soviet army gained it's strength in the forge of
battle with the german army. Before the germans attacked on 22 june 1941
the soviet army was a joke.
It cost the soviet peoples 10 milllion casualties to learn to fight 'well'.

ANd it won in the end, not because it's army was better. The germans
defeated soviet attacks right up to april 1945. But because it had 200
million people. and germany had 60 million.

Courage.? well. better to go forward with some hope than try to go backward. Going backward meant DEATH from the NKVD

Occam

 

the moment that hasn't happend yet but inevitably will, when the cost/profit ratio becomes unprofitable to extract mineral fuels. i.e. "depletion".

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My favorite day in history is November 8, 1519—the day Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés encountered Aztec emperor Moctezuma for the first time, amid the majestic pyramids and palaces of Tenochtitlán.

 

5:52 AM,May 3rd,1939.Me,in present form.

 

russian army WAS the better one
not because of the equipment but because of the spirit and patriotism
yeah i know it took a lot of time to "fight well"

 

mine would have to be when the networks announced the nomination of john fitzgerald kennidy to run for president.

also watching the live feed as eagle sat down on the moon.

also i think when commie scare mccarthy was no longer in the sennate. though i'm entirely uncertain as to the actual date.

these are of course 'history' within my own life.

the 'fall' of saigon and the 'end of american' involvement in viet nam.

woodstock, desegrigation, the late 60s/early 70s in general.

the day my dad discouvered buckminster fuller.

the day i first read a poul anderson story in the onbase library at hill afb in utah.

before i was born, to add to what i've already mentioned. the tevitchic demo. the stocton and darlington motive power competition. the building of the nevada county narrow gauge railway between colfax and nevada city california.

perhapse the first stones being raised at stonhinge, aveburry and similar stone circles of their era.

the publication of agricola's in re mechanibus, or whatever it was called.

heroditus atmospheric engine.

verious and sundry odds and ends like that. mostly not exactly political headline stuff.

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when the greeks founded democracy..
alexander the great was pretty great..
stalingrad/pearl harbor...
thermopoly...
caesar and the non-roman emperors (basically the peak of rome)...
christopher columbus/vikings...
of course fire n the wheel!

 

word

 

July 20th, 1969

 

The Stuart dynasty and the English Civil War.

 

14/05/1991