Re: cell drops at home - can I call Verizon and get action?

Justin wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert wrote on [Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:19:44 -0400]:
"History" came to an end in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. I think I can be pardoned for not noticing this stuff at the time it occurred; I was five years old at the time.

Really? You must have some seriously long lived genes.

Not at all! I'm 67. In 1945 I was four years old! The stuff I didn't notice was Vietnam. The Second World War was going on but, at the age of four, I hadn't clue what it was all about.

I said '"History" came to an end' because history courses generally failed to address anything that happened after about 1920 or even earlier. For the people who wrote the books and taught the courses, the twentieth century was not "history" but the living present!

In addition, history courses covered a hell of a lot of material! "European History" goes back to the Roman Empire (almost). Even if something was "in the book" I don't recall a course that ever GOT to the end of the book.
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