Does history interest you?

I've always love history, especially local history, which I've been delving into pretty deep lately. I found that I can trace my family back to this town to the late 1700's, and then I run out of info, but from other sources I'm told they originated in England in the mid 1600's.....

fascinating.

 

yeah. i pretty much know all the history of my town.

also am loading up my high school schedule with history and foreign language classes as to major in german and its history in college.

 

doesnt that fall under the category of genealogy and not history??

 

I never thought I liked it back in school, but now that I think about it, I totally do. I've always been in love with the old abandoned buildings downtown (not in my town, we don't have a downtown, but in the town that has the Wal-Mart and McDonald's 15 miles away, lol), and the town's history. It was founded in the 20's during the oil boom. My favorite stuff, though, is the history of pyschology and medicine. If I could travel in a time machine to work in a hospital as a nurse like 70 years ago, I'd be soooo happy.

 

no, it's a european history class

 

what?? i wasnt even asking you... and no what ganja was talking about was genealogy...

 

ohhhh sorry i thought that was directed at me, i didn't even notice. no need to get snippy

 

I love history.
I no longer have history this year, I have geography and american government.
But me and my friend Erica go and visit our old history teacher, Mr. Smith, every day at school after lunch. He was like our favorite teacher last year. He never really made us do anything and he spent along time on the romans and greeks , which I like alot.

 

haha. Yeah, I love history. local history, national history, world history.

 

yup. I love history.

 

Yes, please. I'm sooo a lot into history. But unfortunately, it seems like in the Czech rep. history ain't much popular. A few weeks ago, my bf told me that his colleague's daughter (19) answered teacher's question "When did the WWII end?" "In 1989." I mean.. WTF? In 1989 there was a Velvet Revolution in my country when the communist regime finally fell down and she thought... for Christ's sake... If the WWII ended in 89, I don't think I would have been ever born.

 

i thought that 1989 was when the berlin wall came down?

 

Sure thing. That was a very revolution year.

 

well, thats how it started out, but now i've got the genealogy part done mostly, and I'm really getting into the history of this place....its been here since the 1750's

 

I prefer ancient history. Pre-Roman Europe. It was an amazing time. I wish I'd been born in Albion in 100BC. Or during the dark ages. It was a rockin' time.

 

Let me guess, he's young. And not fat.

Thats not liking history. Thats having a crush on the hot teacher when you're 14.

 

a very chaotic time...lots of death in that era...and ignorance...pre roman europe sounds cool though

 

They are fiction, but I highly recommend "Druids" by Morgan Llywelyn and "The Eagle And The Raven" by Pauline Gedge. They describe the inner workings of the Celtic Tribes of Gaul and Albion (respectively) before and during their extermination by the advancing Roman Empire. Sad that such a great civilization was needlessly destroyed. But great reading nonetheless.

 

Yeah, I love it. I'm even in college for history, I dunno what I'm gonna do with it after it but I wanted to study something fun

I thought they were mostly assimilated, not exterminated. After the fall of the roman empire most of them returned to their old ways, although they kept a lot of advantages learned from the romans as well.

 

Nope.
He was young but he was also on the heavy side. And deff. not. He was cool, but he was not my type. My type is insane. He was deff the sanist teacher I have ever had. He was extremely logical.