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Oct. 26th, 2005 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebness
I am not making this up.
The Family Becky and I were watching that hella annoying quiz show Eggheads, and it totally isn't because dad and I have to compete at every general knowledge quiz, ever. Anyway, my brother's fiancée was there and it was the silly history round.
Host: Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in which European city? Prague, Sarajevo or Vienna?
Mum: Oh, I know this!
Becky: Sarajevo!
Dad: Sarajevo!
Elderly contestant: I think it was Sarajevo.
Brother's fiancée: How does she know anything about Franz Ferdinand? She's really old.
In her defence, if they would ever teach British schoolchildren anything in history other than World War II, Guy Fawkes and Elizabeth the bleedin' first, we wouldn't get this kind of situation. Still, the moment released some endorphins when it turned my thoughts to the November concert...
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Date: 2005-10-26 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 08:39 pm (UTC)She's twenty-seven. How do you get to twenty-seven without ever wondering how on earth a war that left millions dead and that they hold rememberance ceremonies for every year started? Gah.
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Date: 2005-10-26 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 09:13 pm (UTC)How on earth are people getting in these days?
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Date: 2005-10-26 09:14 pm (UTC)the singer either....LOL
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Date: 2005-10-26 09:16 pm (UTC)Hey, the new album got to number eight in the US billboard charts. You Americans will soon be falling at the feet of Mr. Kapranos, you'll see. ;)
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Date: 2005-10-26 09:45 pm (UTC)I did Romans in Britian like, every year in middle school.
In high school I did a touch of WW2, before opting for 'Schols Project History' which consisted of Medicine through Time, The American West, and the history of a local village.
I never did WW1.
And I know this.
Reminds me of Blackadder Goes Forth- "when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cos he was hungry"
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Date: 2005-10-26 09:56 pm (UTC)I swear to God, all I ever did in high school was fecking World War II. Oh, and in primary school, too. We did the Medicis briefly in year nine, as well as the Roundheads versus the Cavaliers. Then I got to college and it was a choice between... World War II and American history. I opted for the latter, because I seriously couldn't take any more.
I've read up on French, Spanish and Italian history myself and read around the First World War, etc. As for Rome, I have a feeling my refresher course on that will be when Rome airs on the BBC next week. Well, naked Romans beat textbooks, no?
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Date: 2005-10-26 10:24 pm (UTC)Never! I stand by my Suetounius and Tacitus.
/sad ancient history student.
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Date: 2005-10-26 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 10:40 pm (UTC)What be your icon of?
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Date: 2005-10-26 10:55 pm (UTC)Henry Baynton as Hamlet.
I do love my Hamlet.
Oh, my (impressed) soul!
Date: 2005-10-26 10:58 pm (UTC)Also, thanks.
Re: Oh, my (impressed) soul!
Date: 2005-10-26 10:59 pm (UTC)Esp. Hamlet ones.
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 10:16 pm (UTC)Anyway, we did get to do World War I in high school, briefly. The main thing we learnt was that while the assassination sparked it, all these other factors like imperialism, nationalism and the naval and arms races contributed to the war. And there were multiple alliances, and stuff.
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Date: 2005-10-26 10:24 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah. There was the whole Anglo-French-Germanic stuff going on, the economic crises in certain European countries and the fact that Franz Ferdinand was but an excuse for tensions to boil over. And that sentence is more than I was taught about it in school, though at least I know who he was.
I should have done the point-and-laugh at her, but she makes nice tea.
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Date: 2005-10-26 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 11:18 pm (UTC)there's*
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Date: 2005-10-27 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 06:59 pm (UTC)