Lohrenswald
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That is cause Arakhor didn't start a thread on the premise, but cut posts from another thread, which were about political events at one's early days
pretty cool how that wasn't mentioned in the thread
The Earliest Events in Your Life
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pretty cool how that wasn't mentioned in the thread
I thought it merited its own discussion, especially since recollection of events outside your life is an important life skill.
Besides, the first post was a musing of my own that I decided to post on CFC anyway.
Besides, the first post was a musing of my own that I decided to post on CFC anyway.
From context i take it we are talking big events and significance outweights the term "earliest" in the thread title?
Well...
- The week we were supposed to play inside (this is developing into a bit of generational theme for Continentals)
- Everybodies grandma glued to the TV (a.k.a. The Golden Slam).
- The whole spring/summer/fall '89 thing. Which contrary to popular belief was (in the German perspective) only as cheerful and happymaking in a brief last stage and for the longest time consisted mostly of tension and spoilt pants* (because duh).
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Well, big and early. Obviously I remember some things prior to 1986, but that's the first year I remember stuff happening outside my life experiences.
Yeah, i mean, well, i remember seeing Reagan getting reelected - or rather some newsperson reading from a piece of paper to that effect (with bad blue screen things happening). But that's not very meaningful per se, nor was it for me. I was vaguely aware of the notion of electoral government and i was vaguely aware of this America place (it's entirely possible that i didn't appreciate at the time, that England existed for example), so i found both notions reinforced and moved on, i suppose.
I was conceived during halftime of Super Bowl I. I remember rooting for the Steeler in Super Bowl IX. I remember watching parts of the '72 Winter Olympics and I remember watching Bruce Jenner winning the gold in the '76 Summer Games. Ford-Carter was the first Presidential race I remember. The Iran Hostage crisis was the first big event I remember.
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I remember viewing Challenger in plain sight while walking to my college classes from my dorm in Jacksonville Fl. And then watching it replay over and over again on tv, the next few hours, but that was not the earliest event, just the first one I saw first hand.
I remember going to some demonstration rallys in D.C. 68/69. I was on my dad's shoulders during the march. As soon as I could walk, about 18 months, I was rarely supervised, and wandered around for hours outside exploring nature and discovering human nature.
I remember going to some demonstration rallys in D.C. 68/69. I was on my dad's shoulders during the march. As soon as I could walk, about 18 months, I was rarely supervised, and wandered around for hours outside exploring nature and discovering human nature.
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The Clinton impeachment trials, the Unibomber and the OKC bombing were the earliest big events I remember. I don't remember the WTC bombing of 92'.
Oh and I remember the Kosovo war. My father got shipped out for that one.
One of my earliest personal memories is the time my mother stepped out the sidewalk to talk to our neighbor while I napped. I woke up and couldn't find her and started crying. I still tease her about how she totally abandoned me.
Oh and I remember the Kosovo war. My father got shipped out for that one.
One of my earliest personal memories is the time my mother stepped out the sidewalk to talk to our neighbor while I napped. I woke up and couldn't find her and started crying. I still tease her about how she totally abandoned me.
Perfection
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The Fall of Constantinople and the end of the Hundred Years' War
Fun trivia: the fall of Constantinople happened almost exactly in the half-point of Vlad the Impaler's life
Broken_Erika
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And the Muscovite Civil war still rages, are you a supporter of Vasily the second or Yury of Zvenigorod?
Evie
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I think my memories start around the same time as yours Arakhor - I remember the intense feeling of disapointment at what the 1986 showing of Halley's comet (which we certainly tried to see) turned out to be. I also vaguely remember the Saguenay earthquake, and the 1988 PCB fire in a nearby town.
I wasn't much into politics in the eighties, and really the only political memory of any significance I have would be my mother making me sit down to watch people tearing down a wall on television. Took me a few more years to understand the significance of *that* one, but I distinctly remember the image anyway.
I remember my parents and grandmother (in one of her rare visits to our place) watching the liberal federal convention the next year that would elect Jean Chrétien as federal leader. And, the year after that, I still have a vivid memory of Canada joining the Iraq war and of understanding what that meant (I promptly turned the jetlined from my new lego airport set into a stealth bomber. Of course.)
I wasn't much into politics in the eighties, and really the only political memory of any significance I have would be my mother making me sit down to watch people tearing down a wall on television. Took me a few more years to understand the significance of *that* one, but I distinctly remember the image anyway.
I remember my parents and grandmother (in one of her rare visits to our place) watching the liberal federal convention the next year that would elect Jean Chrétien as federal leader. And, the year after that, I still have a vivid memory of Canada joining the Iraq war and of understanding what that meant (I promptly turned the jetlined from my new lego airport set into a stealth bomber. Of course.)
onejayhawk
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How long was the Hundred Years War?
I'm not so far. Gustav Adolph II at Breitenfield turning Europe upside down. Shakespeare was alive but people didn't think he wrote the plays at the Globe. It had to be someone with military experience and better access to court.
J
I believe that it was both very close to the Earth and also obscured from most people's view of the sky.
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