Do you have a favorite time in history that you most enjoy?

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   aviannoviceposted 11 years ago

   Do you have a favorite time in history that you most enjoy?

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   Jackie Lynnleyposted 11 years ago

   I love the late 1800's. It was such an interesting time with things just starting to get more modern, and travel expanding so vastly across the US with covered wagons and land free for the taking. I know it was not easy but it just seems so exciting reading of that time. I can imagine all the open land and rushing to get the part I want. Wouldn't that be great today?

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Indeed it would, Jackie.  The past seems to have its own magic, and so many seem to ignore it, for hopes and glimpses of the future...

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   Little Grandmommyposted 11 years ago

   I enjoy the 50s.  The innocence was still there.  Family really meant something.  and it was a decade of beginnings in quite a few areas.   I was born at the end of the 50s, so I guess it's in my dna.

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I was born then, too, and I know exactly what you are talking about.  It was more of a carefree time, and people were closer knit.

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   Queen of Cupsposted 11 years ago

   My most favorite time that I enjoy must be the time of the emergence of true art and literature simply because it is a solid part of the basis I have established my passions upon. Every piece of work, in both aspects, hold something deeper in us than people realized.
   When an artist or writer sets their hand to page, to canvas, to keyboard, it is the passion and will of our soul that sets something into that image or into those words that move something inside another person.
   It embraces the emotion of the moment and nothing can match that form of seeing into another person; they are representations {I think} that righteously invoke admiration because it is Humankind at its most beautiful.
   "The soul could never lie nor could the words we write nor the images invoked through passion."

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Oooooo, I like that!  It's right up there with Shakespeare and Michelangelo.

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      Queen of Cupsposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yes! That's why I love it!

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   CreatePerfectionposted 11 years ago

   Hi aviannovice,
   I really liked the 50's.  It was a time when it was safe to leave your house and car unlocked.  It was a time when I felt safe as a child.  It would never have occurred to me that someone would bring a gun to school or that I was in danger, just being at school.  It was a time of simplicity and a time when population growth was under control.  It was a time when you had the same phone and tv for years and years.  It was a time of clear conscience when company owners wanted the best for their customers instead of trying to steal from them.  It was a time when banks actually cared what happened in their communities.  It was a time of integrity and honesty.

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Oh, to only see those times again.  Think there is hope?

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      CreatePerfectionposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I don't know if we can hope for a time like the 50's again, but I am glad to have lived through them once.

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   Old Empresarioposted 11 years ago

   1400s to the 1700s in Western  were the most interesting to me. I also enjoy late antiquity from 300s AD to 600s AD when the European kingdoms formed.

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Wow, that was a rough time, disease ridden and hard to live.  A great historical period.

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   mitowriteposted 11 years ago

   The Medieval era, but only because of the art and architecture created then.

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      They did do fabulous things in both art and architecture.  Realistically, those were days of wonderful craftsmen.

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   ArtzGirlposted 11 years ago

   The most intriguing era of history was the events of 9/11.  Why?  Because it is one of the largest crimes in human history which has yet to have fully prosecuted the true individuals who were responsible for this (and no, I'm NOT talking about the alleged hijackers who couldn't even fly a small aircraft a week prior but were the alleged guys who hit 75% of their targets on 9/11).
   
   There are some interesting books on this topic.  I would recommend reading Christopher Bollyn's book called "Solving 9/11". 
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Solving-9-11-Dece … 0985322586
   
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   Here is my first article on 9/11, which shows the videos that convinced me that the official story of 9/11 has a number of holes and questions which our mainstream press failed to answer correctly.
   
   http://artzgirl.hubpages.com/hub/Questi … ry-of-9-11
   
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   Here's my second article on 9/11, showing the breakthroughs 11 years after 9/11: 
   
   http://artzgirl.hubpages.com/hub/Breakt … es-Forward

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Tried to look at your material, but there was a flashwave problem.  Couldn't even read your pieces.  I recall exactly what I was doing when I heard the news...I was on the way to a job, and someone called for me to roll down my window.  That was when

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   Larry Wallposted 11 years ago

   I would love the revolutionary period of our country. It was not perfect, there were arguments and everyone was not in agreement. However, it was a turning point for the whole world that we need to understand, which means changing the way we teach history--not by memorizing lists of names and dates, but by studying Washington's Farewell Address, the Common Sense papers, examining in more detail why the Articles of Confederation had to be replace by the constitution and doing research to see if we can find notes, letters, journals or whatever that tell us what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. We might all be in for a few surprises.

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      aviannoviceposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Larry, I like the way that you think.  This was truly a remarkable time period.  Thanks for responding.

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