tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101041874322030800.post38683310914481748..comments2024-01-29T21:40:14.451+00:00Comments on Pebbles in the Sea: HistoryBrighton Pensionerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13370054497955792775noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101041874322030800.post-38032601079021827552011-11-26T20:47:02.186+00:002011-11-26T20:47:02.186+00:00One's first reaction was, "What's it ...<i>One's first reaction was, "What's it got to do with him anyway?" but he is a professor of English history...</i><br /><br />I'll also offer up that most Americans (the literate ones, anyway) consider your history to be our history, as well. That applies specifically to events prior to July 4, 1776 but also encompasses significant things after that date, as well. "Two peoples separated by a common language" and all that.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05319116022465066060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101041874322030800.post-80778246957700044692011-11-26T18:33:43.497+00:002011-11-26T18:33:43.497+00:00Thank you for the link, Brian. I wonder if everyon...Thank you for the link, Brian. I wonder if everyone enjoyed reading the post as much as I enjoyed the memories? <br />It's funny. I never much enjoyed history until I could study it by choice.(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101041874322030800.post-12838569636251511382011-11-25T17:52:53.981+00:002011-11-25T17:52:53.981+00:00I'm also a lover of history, and I'm fasci...I'm also a lover of history, and I'm fascinated by how often history changes and is rewritten. New discoveries are turning up all the time, like that hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold recently found in a British field that is increasing our knowledge of what these people were capable of at that time. Our understanding of the past needs to remain flexible. It isn't just the winners that are writing history today, and I think this is a good thing.stephen Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17659054447637207734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101041874322030800.post-89708117387678577632011-11-25T12:48:50.100+00:002011-11-25T12:48:50.100+00:00Totally agree about the importance of historical d...Totally agree about the importance of historical details. And I also thoroughly enjoyed Skips post, too -- it was not only informative, it was also very moving.<br />Ah, yes, Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941! :-)We did not have many dates to remember but three were The Battle of Hastings, The Magna Carta, and The Spanish Armada! Loved all history though and still do!The Broadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976467218216864644noreply@blogger.com