What's your favorite moment in history

Ancient history is my bag. I love researching about Egypt, Rome. Also like to find out about my own country and it's diverse history. i think it important for people to know where they come from. You should probably start with researching you nations history, look right back to the earliest civilizations and bring right on up to modern day, you'll find it fasinating and the added bonus with researching your own nation to start with is that you can visit places and feel really connected.


Enjoy History, it makes us what we are. :cheers2:

 

Occam:
The Germans had a good chance to capture the Ukraine and possibly other parts of the Soviet Union, because the Ukraine was very fed up with the Soviet dictatorship, Khruschev, and forced famines and collectivization. Unfortunately the Germans acted like savage beasts wherever they went. Had they acted responsibly and given Ukrainian nationalists some rights and autonomy, Ukrainians would have embraced liberation from communism, as did Vlasov and his fellow soldiers.

Of course, the Germans were not responsible, otherwise they wouldn't have invaded in the first place.

 

Just to reply to the title of this thread (I don't mean to derail it at all..)

The intentional ingestion of LSD by Dr. Albert Hoffman. Could have changed the world.

And I still think it will one day.

 

I enjoy reading about America as it was in the early 20th century. History has always been my favorite subject in high school and college.

 

my favourite periods to study, are the 2WW and most other wars, ancient egypt, jurrasic periods and the tudors. as for moments, jfk assasination and conspiracy theories in history are another of my favourite. also love natural history. history is great

 

Which other wars and why? Egypt is a masive period and fascinating have you read any of Graham Hancocks stuff about the pyramids? Also there is a French bloke can't remember his name right now but a lot of his books have been translated into english he is very knowledgeable, have you every visited?

I would love to do more research and gain a greater understanding of Anthropology. Currently studying Amazonian Indians and there relationships to each other and to Westerners and how we can learn and help each other.

 

i dunno if this counts but this semester i took a class about the old testament. and wow. i've never learned so much.. i mean it's all pretty much history. just with religion in it.

but if you're talking like recent.. i'd most def have to say holocaust/WWII

 

What????????????????

 

I think she meant in terms of it's value as being an interesting thing to study

 

wow I was worried there for a little while..My favorite part of history has to be when scientists discovered the oldest written book..The Epic of Gilgamesh..and it was about the authors fear of a God. That proves that we have long been a thinking, feeling,species way before anyone ever thought...

 

Yeah, Fingerprints of the gods I have read and i've also read the mars mystery...i know thats got nothing to do with history as such but i really enjoyed his books. might read them again at some point. what did you make of them?

 

Generale

Then this should interest you.
I discovered why the north american rail system has a gauge of
1,435 mm.

It's the same as the wheel gage on roman chariots.

1.Chariot makes groves in roman road. 'Ruts'
2.Locals copy axle width to fit ruts.
3.Gigs made to standardise axles.
4.European gigs standardise to 1435mm
5.Trams invented. Tram axle use gigs for carts. 1435mm
6.Trains invented.Use gigs for trams.1435mm.
7.Transport system exported to north american with colonisation.
8. Pig headed americans stick with 1435 mm gauge just like they
stick with imperial feet and inches.
Arrogant yanks.

Occam

 

My favorite moment in history...?
Easy answer!

 

Or seriously. It would have to be the invention of electricity.

 

what is this crap?
My pecks are bigger or .
I spend 99.9% of my time exercising my body , not my brain. And it shows.

 

A moron can be an athlete.
A moron cannot understand a singularity.
A thinking being can be an athlete.
A thinking being can understand a singularity.
ergo
Be a thinking being. Not a moron.

Unfortunately statistics show that 9 out of 10
athletes do not know what a singularity 'could even be'


occam

 

When de Gaulle met his brother, Satan.

 

LOLOLOLLOLLOL

But what of petain?....sniker

 

Fingerprints was fantastic, but found Mars a little more difficult to swallow. Not sure about the whole life on mars thing. But an interesting read. What started your interest?

 

yeah it was a very good read. i didnt know about the mars one either. i enjoyed reading it though. i dunno really what started my interest, i guess i have been fascinated with egypt since i first studied at school in primary. lol. its just been a subject that ive always been into. history in general. and natural history.