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09 Sep 2017, 9:44 am

I personally LOVE history. It's interesting to look back in the past, for example, and see what happened that maybe impacted the world, or look at historical events and wonder what was going on in the people's minds when it was occurring. What do you guys think of history? Do you think it's important? Not important? Or are you neutral about it?

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09 Sep 2017, 10:06 am

It's a mega-obsession for me. Comparison of today's world with the lessons of history shows that nothing is ever new and we keep on making the same mistakes. My interests are English history between Hastings and Bosworth Field, although I'm currently moonlighting in the court of Henry VIII (because I'm studying my other mega-obsession, the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt). I'm also thinking of studying the American Civil War soon... those old photographs are endlessly fascinating.


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09 Sep 2017, 10:13 am

I like to look at history, based on human motivations.

What motivated the human, not necessarily what the human accomplished.

I did my college history essay on "Greek Mathematicians".

I always found the foundations of math fascinating.

We are still baffled by irrational numbers like the SQRT(2). [Rhetorical question] How can irrational numbers exist?

Also, my history professor asked us, "Please, don't say 'if were don't learn from history, then we're doomed to repeat it'. Every semester, students thoughtlessly repeat that on their essays".

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09 Sep 2017, 10:19 am

It was my first obsessive interest as a child, universal history.


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09 Sep 2017, 10:42 am

History is okay, but I take very little interest in most of the big events of different times, I am far more interested in how every day life was, and what it would have been like to live back then. A main historical interest of mine is daily life in Norway during WW2.


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09 Sep 2017, 10:47 am

Its a big interest of mine. Has always been.



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09 Sep 2017, 11:13 am

LegoMaster2149 wrote:
What Do You Think About History?


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(Actually, I'm quite taken with the humanities, but I couldn't resist :P)



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10 Sep 2017, 2:47 pm

I've been a fanatical history buff for most of my life. From when I was a kid listening to stories from history told to me from my dad, to delving into history books as a teen, to studying history in college and earning a Bachelor's in that discipline, continuing on to today.


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10 Sep 2017, 3:30 pm

History makes humans look pretty stupid.



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10 Sep 2017, 4:24 pm

History is definitely a major interest of mine. I have a History degree and I have continued to study it as one of my hobbies. I'm primarily interested in social, political and cultural history with a particular emphasis on the post-1945 period in Britain, Germany, Scandinavia and the United States. I also have an interest in the history of the former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe especially East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.



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10 Sep 2017, 4:28 pm

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.


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