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Are you talking about the links on page http://www.oldwesthistory.net/oldwest14.html/ ?Thanks for the suggestions. Keep the ideas coming. My intention on providing good history links is to take sites that are unique in their coverage in some way (i.e. preferably not encyclopedia or kid pages), sites with cool interactive content, maps, images, etc. I also like sites that cover aspects of history that you don't usually read about (such as the link to Medieval Foods). I'll have to peruse through those oldwesthistory.net links and see which ones I can add to the collection, since I don't believe I have any Old West topics listed yet.
jonnyjmboy, I agree with you about the significance of enthusiasm. I would also connect this enthusiasm to a sort of renewal for the ages. When religious bodies become large and when believers go unchallenged, spirituality becomes dry and faith tends to become empty. This is the case in countries where established religions become “cultural religions” which lack significant amounts of enthusiasm. In the U.S., we are past this point, and we are now into a new phase where enthusiasm by a select, smaller group tends to promote change and challenge certain social mores. This precise thing is what could promote a new “Awakening”.
What? That's crazy! What is the publishing date of the encyclopedia? I was under the impression that UFO, including the “saucer” description, developed in the late 1940s/1950s. It would be interesting to read the first-hand accounts from 1873, 1897, etc. to see exactly what took place. I agree, if these eye witness accounts really took place, it would seem to give creedence to UFO conspirarists. Obviously, planes weren't developed until what…1904? Although hot air balloons had been around since at least the Civil War when they were used for artillery range spotting.
I'm not sure exactly what ski resort town my friend is in….I think he told me once but the ones you mentioned don't really ring any bells. I know that he's from Warner, NH, and that his current place of work is about an hour or two north of there. Not far from Maine, I think.
That's a good question, skiguy. I wonder if Donnie might have a good answer for that. I know that for philosophy, Frederick Copleston's History of Philosophy is a pretty darn good synopsis of philosophy and philosophers throughout the ages; I imagine that there's something similar for history as well.
Yes, I think vandalism is the answer. I had a personal site of mine hacked a month or two ago. Brazilian hackers. I think it was done as an “I can do this ha ha” type of thing. There are a lot of shady people on the internet these days.
Because I am the owner of this site, I have the ability to look at the visitor logs. This is separate from the forum software. It tells me some information about how many visitors come to my site, how they arrived here, what kind of browser they were using, and so forth. I can also sometimes detect whether or not someone was trying to hack into the site…and then I have the power to deny that person access to this site. Pretty intersting stuff.
Isn't Gloucester the town where the book A Perfect Storm was supposed to have taken place? Can't remember exactly…but I do know it was a great book.I've got potential plans to visit a buddy of mine in New Hampshire later this summer. He works in some resort ski town somewhere in the northern part of the state. Do you have any suggestions about towns in New Hampshire that are really great historical towns? I prefer the ones which are quaint, perhaps old streets and buildings that are still standing, and hopefully not too touristy.
Donnie, I was reading over an old thread over at americanhistoryforum. One of your posts contains the following in regard to the natural demise of slavery [bold is mine]:
I would say slavery would have been abolished since the vast majority of Southerners did not own slaves, and the trend toward more sexual freedom and other relaxed social taboos, would have made slavery medieval if not archaic.
I’m wondering what exactly you mean by your reference to “sexual freedom” and “social taboos”. Was there such a trend going on around the time of the Civil War? How would this lead to a lessening of slavery’s importance? I’m interested in hearing about this.
Here's an image of the Predator RQ-1 for notation purposes (freely available under GPL licensing). I wonder, though, if SDI merely pushes attack tactics to new and unique levels. It's good, though, to cut down on the ways an attack can be made. How would the U.S. defend itself against a hundred UAVs flying over NYC with cannisters of biological agents attached?
Here's an image of what I believe is a “German demolition vehicle”, on display at the Panzermuseum in Germany. Image available under GPL license.
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Check out Clive Cuslers 'Sea hunters II' I think he has a very plausable theory about the fate of the Mary Celeste.
I'm not surprised that Clive Cussler has written on the topic. He heads a “lost sea treasure” type of operation, which I think is named after the fictitious “NUMA” organization that his book characters (Dirk, et al) belong to. I got through most of Cussler's “Inca Gold” but have never read Sea Hunters.
Wasn't it the oldest Kennedy Child (John's brother) who was the one killed in WWII? He went on a mission to fly an plane/bomber that I believe was loaded with explosives. He was supposed to jump out during the flight and parachute to safety while the plane would then be controlled automatically to crash into some enemy position (a crude and early version of a smart bomb). Something happened in-flight and he did not survive.
That's pretty interesting stuff. I'm guessing you've seen Gangs of New York. What did you think of it? Honestly, I don't think I had learned about the New York riots as a reaction against the Union's draft during the Civil War. What the movie showed was really quite interesting, including the government's brutal response to the uncontrollable riots. Last summer a cousin took me to Manhatten and showed me the wall and the church which were depicted in that movie in the Five Points area (right near that Mott/Mulberry Street area). Today the location is right in the Little Italy/Chinatown area. It's worth a visit if you're ever in that area.
Yes, I think that that the desire for power can be a form of greed. However, I'd normally place greed as the desire for money and/or material wealth, whereas the desire for power is the desire to control people, their way of life (and property). I think Hitler's problem was that he was clearly after power; bringing the holocaust to the Jews cannot be described in any way other than the desire to exercise power by one race over another. I think that Napoleon, too, might have had a power trip. His leadership abilities (which I touch on in this thread) suggest this. Of course, I'm not saying that Napoleon was on the same level as Hitler, merely that both leaders preferred power over wealth.In another class are leaders who, as you suggest, are “desirous of lifting his fellow man…into a better position in life”. Perhaps a person like Che Guevara – whether one disagrees with him or not – falls into this category. Is this the kind of person you were thinking of?
