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What is you favorite time in History?
Posted by amybyrd21 • 27 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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We went to a Train Museum/Civil War museum and a hands on History Museum today. I love Colonial History.
What is your favortie time in History? And what country?
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the twenties! my great-great aunt (who raised my grandmother) was a flapper - she was the first girl in her town to "bob" her hair, and one of my most cherished possessions is her engagement ring (that i wear every day) along with a photo of her in a party dress, sprawled in a baby carriage with two bottles of liquor during prohibition. i would have LOVED to be her friend! she died when i was 5, and i wish she's lived long enough for me to have more than faint memories of her...-
I second that! I love the roaring twenties; everything from the fashion to the music to the speakeasies to the films! I adore Louise Brooks...
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I love the frontier times (later half of 1800's and early 1900's) of the Western United States. It's such a different perspective and story then you hear anywhere else.
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History is fascinating, I can't say i have a favorite time. I live in an area over stuffed with civil war parks, and museums so I can live without that though it is interesting.
I love the middle ages through the Reformation. Have been, the last few years, interested in Iran, from pre-history through the Iranian Revolution. -
oohhhh my favourite question EVER, amybyrd!
I think the greatest time for progress and beauty in art, architecture, literature, music, science and scholarship was between 1650 and 1800. It doesn't matter to me whether we are looking at Britain, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy or Russia.-
I forgot. Late in life I have developed a real interest in the Belle Epoque, the era of optimism, science, Universal Exhibitions, women's equality, Russian ballets, French fashion, the Arts and Crafts movement, late Victorian architecture etc.
Of course it all ended in the trenches of World War One in 1914
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I don't have a favorite either. I like to soak it all in. I like cooper love the middle ages,but I also loved learning about the american revolution.
I absolutely LOVE learning about rome and their engineering. I watch every special I can.
I also like to learn the stories in the bible to.
And like cooper the whole middle eastern thing interesting to me now. Like how people broke up into different sects like with isaac and ishmael -
I love the Tudor era, 1500-1700.
It was a time of chivalry, good music and fashion, interesting food and culture. The hygiene wasn't that good but I guess you'd have had to take the good with the bad.-
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Quarter past three is good but my absolute favourite is twenty past six.-
U sooo forgot 20 past 4,but I like quarter past 3 to. I love beer:30 on fridays to
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Right now.-
technically "right now" isn't history.
course "right now" two hours ago is
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Right. My favorite time in history is the moment history ends.
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I'm fond of the medieval era in Europe and present-day Turkey. Of course I'm currently writing a history book about something entirely different, go figure!-
Funny, i am from Turkey and i don't like the present day or near-past history of Turkey.
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My School & College Time was the best Golden Time.-
nice memory that i had
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The ancient world is facinating. The Victorian era too, although it's also kinda grim. The 1960s, of course... plus being a child of the 80s, I kinda have a nostalgia for that time! -
I loved the 80's
I love different aspects of different eras...in some ways we have learned and grown from our history. In other ways our society have regressed. -
To study? I go through different phases of interest but I've been reading a ton about Tudor England lately and really enjoying it. -
The ancient roman times.-
i'll bet
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ancient rome had some good stuf and some really bad stuff in it. But I liked the plays and such
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Agi- whats that supposed to mean? ;p
amy- I want to pray to multiple gods, and watch the gladiators -
I figured you wanted to be lord of a manor or something
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I thought you were going to make a gay reference...
General/Dictator would be preferred.
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I was 7 years old then but if I could travel back in time I would be a grown young man in 1945, right at the end of WW2. In New York City. I would immediately stroll the streets from Greenwich Village to Columbia University, searching out the Ceder Tavern and similar cool bars and hangouts where the young soon-to-be "Beats" are jiving about poetry, action painting, be-bog, free and open sex, snapping their fingers to the background sax and drum beats, smoking a little "maryjane" and juggling around each other to see who is going to write the postwar GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL!
I could dig a weekend there. -
Herstory is better -
My favorite time in history was pretty recent and very short lived: The E-Business boom. I wish I was old enough to have graduated from college at that time. It would have been a smashing fun time with money flying like confetti. -
I prefer right now, but if I had to go back, maybe England in the eighteenth century. Seems like a man could do everything from explore the world in dearskin hides or run around palaces with a wig and make-up. It was a revolutionary time. They got to make it all up from scratch. ( I think I might prefer to have been a wealthy aristocrat becuase society did care about that!} -
As Laurence said. England in the 18th century. I must say though that with my luck I would probably be the ugly aunt that never got married and the Lord of the family had to take care of -
there is an appeal there. The first fruits of the Enlightenment and all
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Why the 18th century? Did you fancy being a wench aboard a ship as the British took over the seas? -
I'm thinking it is Jane Austen stuff, but who knows
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Ha! Yes it was of that time She may have a thing for sea men?
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A quick whizz through the 18th century www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/empireseapower_timeline_noflash.shtm...
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"sea-men"
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I've read way too many Barbara Cartland's novels were the girl is left alone, mother (or father) died when she was young, then they got poor, then the father dies right when she meets a super-handsome aristocrat that falls for her. Cinderella story over and over again
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Then you need to go to France
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No thanks, I don't like french-men
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"Radical artisans form the London Corresponding Society
The spirit of 'liberty, equality and fraternity' that stemmed from the French Revolution of 1789 had inspired the establishment of radical societies in Britain. In January 1792, the 'London Corresponding Society', the most prominent of these organisations, was formed under the leadership of Thomas Hardy, a Scottish shoemaker. The LCS debated the need for parliamentary reform. It advocated universal male suffrage, a secret ballot and annual parliaments. The government banned the LCS in 1794."
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Pfft Male Suffrage, get back in your cage.
I like this bit:
1718
British convicts start being transported to penal colonies overseas
In 1718, the Transportation Act introduced penal transportation. People convicted of capital crimes had their sentences 'commuted' to 14 years or life in the Americas. Convicts found guilty of non-capital crimes received seven-year sentences. Between 1718 and 1776, over 50,000 convicts were transported to Virginia and Maryland in the modern United States. The American Revolution made further transportation impossible. -
then of course there was indentured servitude...
good old days, for ya -
Don't blame me, I twas only a peasant probably
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At least he would take care of you. Who knows, one of the stable boys might console you.
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jajajajajaj Laurence!
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Now that's what we mean by the good ole days!!
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Hmmm I loved all things Ancient Egyptian when I was a kid.
Now it is all things Medieval, but I love history in general too.
Tracing my dad's ancestral DNA for his 50th birthday, so I will find out which route out of Africa my ancestors took, which will be cool.-
Ooohhh that is sooo cool!!! You have to let me know what comes out of it. Of course I'm talking about the DNA thing *nerd alert* jajajajaja
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I will do, I am pretty fascinated by it all too
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my money is on R1-B
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It would be the obvious choice
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yes, wouldn't it.
i dont have any obvious choice. My Y immigrant ancestor was from "Prussia," so probably R1-A... maybe J, K, or E3-B. -
Do you have the National Geographic channel? I think you would of loved that documentary. It definitely threw up a lot of surprises for people that thought they had an inkling of where their ancestors came from.
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I'm sure I would. I saw Henry Louis Gates' documentary "African American Lives" which did some of the same stuff. Very interesting
debunks that whole "racial purity" nonsense -
Yes, racial purity came into for sure! I would love to swab some folk and get their DNA profiles, then shove it up their arses
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I wonder what all Hitler was. i wish he knew...
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His mother's tomb is known so, someone could dig her up and see if there is any viable DNA to do the mitochondrial test
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In the UK we have all this BNP nonsense, spouting their 'Indigenous Caucasian' policies, so I think they should be tested.
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That's kind of cool. Maybe someday I'll try it
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crpitt wrote: "In the UK we have all this BNP nonsense, spouting their 'Indigenous Caucasian' policies...".
I think the history of nationalist movements is often racist and very nasty; the BNP is just one in a long line of movements claiming to restore the True Culture or the pure bloodline of a people.
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Jerusalem 70 A.D.I would have loved to be there when the temple was being destroyed.Jesus predicted that the temple would be destroyed in Matthew 24 and Luke 19.The Christians fled when the Temple was being destroyed and went to Pella as the Early Church Father Eusebius wrote in his history of the Christian Church.-
right. Rome's war on terror...
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DNA research. How much does it cost and where does one go to do it?
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There are various sites and various prices, still looking into it at the moment.
The dad was inspired after we watched this documentary:
The Human Family Tree
channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/human-family-tree
channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/the-human-family-tree-3706/Overview#...
Which led to The Genographic Project
genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/participate.html
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Here is some info Laurence:
www.dnaancestryproject.com/ydna_intro_howto.php
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Oh that might be the site I go with, although this one has had good reviews.
www.23andme.com/
If you are Male, you can have more things done, because of the Y chromosome, so more money to spend -
that isn't bad. I might even be able to afford such a thing
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It would be one way for us to all share DNA
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that didn't sound right o_0
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I know, I was being naughty
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Here is a great blog I found on DNA testing and Genealogy
www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/
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I like the Star Trek era. Flying around in spaceships, beaming aboard. Phasers! Wow. Meeting aliens that look just like us except for their ears. I wonder how long it will be before that all becomes real life? -
good god Dave you scared me, what was the question again?-
he scared you. Get the fork out of your eye man that has to hurt. lol
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yeah. Get the fork out... wait, that sounded wrong
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i'd like to go to the freedom time of Indonesia. It's 17th august 1945
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for a certain old man favorite "time" aint "history" yet -
Favorite time in history? Tomorrow - because everyone has the chance to make history.
Country? Wherever it's made. -
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I have a strange obsession in reading books about Richard III's brief reign, and what happened to his nephews, the Princes. Were they murdered? By whom? Where are the bodies?
As his reign ended in 1484, it's not exactly like I'm going to actually SOLVE this mystery myself. But for some reason I keep trying.
Decorating wise, I love the rich textiles and art that came out of the Victorian era.-
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Hey, that IS interesting... thank you. I often think if only we'd had the kind of forensics and tools sooner that we have now, we could have been more precise on a whole lot more historical mysteries.
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Ohh a time travelling CSI team would be cool
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Heh, yes, currently the closest thing we have to that is the mystery character Brother Caedfael.
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Oh I love that show, it hasn't been repeated over here on any channels for an age.
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Thrifty, did you ever read "The Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey? This very slim book started out in life as a historical detective story about the Princes in the Tower, but it asks some seriously good historical questions.
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Hels- Yes, I did. Enjoyed it quite a bit-- it's a nice way to get started on the topic, really. Sort of eases you into some of those questions.
I don't know if Richard III was as innocent of the dispatch of the Princes as she indicated, but it does seem he got, in part, a raw deal due to Tudor spin-doctoring. -
Have you seen this Thrifty?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-kQoKt2Kf4
It's a "trial" of Richard using real barristers and expert witnesses it's very interesting. -
Have you ever played in the National Archives Thrifty?
It is podcast galore!
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Ooh- thank you both! I know what I'll be watching while I have lunch today.
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Pleasure Will keep an eye out for all things Richard III
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TSR, I hope you don't mind the correction but Richard's reign ended in 1485, not 1484. The remains of what were assumed to be Edward V and Richard duke of York were discovered in 1674 when some work was being carried out in the Tower of London.
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I am into the American Civil War. What lead to the war and the after effects of it. This is partly because I can trace my ancestry to some interesting stories that have pictures. -
I'm interested in all British history particularly in my local area (Kent). I try to incorporate some historical stuff into my blog because I find it interesting (and hopefully others will too)
Glen -
right now.. minus tests. -
1680-1760 in the New World.
Le Loup. -
Seventeenth century England, the period following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
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June 12, 1898- Philippine Independence Day. My country got back its lost freedom from the Spanish colonizers after 312 years of foreign rule.
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