| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | The History of Shadowrun [was: Human barcodes] |
| Date: | Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:15:23 +0200 |
the street was...
> A bigger problem is the accuracy of the retained knowledge. Many people
> get more histrory from TV and films then from school.
And these tend to cover only the broad lines, without going in-depth, and
they often get the details wrong. (Want proof? Watch a documentary on,
say, the Discovery Channel, about a subject that you know a lot about.
Count the mistakes or omissions (sp?) they make.)
> What you are seeing is the natural progression from current events to
> history. Some knowledge will be lost, more now then in time past as fewer
> people write letters or keep diaries. But the records and the bulk of the facts
> will remain. The Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War for example
> are still studied and discussed by common people as well as academic types.
The ACW is studied largely in the US, not so much here in Europe, AFAIK,
and the reason to me seems to be twofold: first, it's the biggest war
fought in North America, and second, it was the first industrial war. The
Napoleonic wars get studied because taken together, they were essentially
a world war, not to mention involved one of the greatest army commanders
in history.
> > How many people here know anything about the Franco-Prussian War, for
> > example? Only those with an interest in military or European history, I
> > bet, and yet it was the last major European war before World War I.
>
> I seem to recall that the First and Second Balkans wars post dated the
> Franco-Prussian War. Now there might be some debate about them being
> Major wars, but the Third Balkan War was most definatly major (AKA WW
> I).
1912 and 1913. But I would call them local wars, between some of the
countries that went on to make up Yugoslavia from 1918 to the 1990s. Only
when Austria-Hungary got involved in 1914 did things get _slightly_ out of
hand :)
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