First thing that comes to mind when you think of history

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Pan Am Flight 103

events

Meiji Restoration

smallpox

black plague

bones

An ugly textbook full of boring information.

The Holocaust. So Germany made a mistake. Isn't it time for parents and teachers to mention the importance of forgiveness instead of teaching kids to hate, while teaching them about things like this? I'm not happy that many Jews and Handicaps were killed and I was bitter about it until I've developed a better understanding of myself early last year.

New York Blackout of 1977

The year without summer

Music history

The Little Ice Age

The holocaust, probably because I was born just after the war ended and knew Jewish survivors from an early age who came here to New Zealand as refugees at that time - my childhood doctor was one, and he had badly scarred hands from being forced to work in lime pits with bare hands.

Some survivors preferred to emigrate from Europe to Australia and New Zealand because we were as far away from Europe as possible, and that found that distance reassuring, as well as the social democracies that both countries were.

By the time I was 8, I knew about children my age being gassed to death, shot in the head, torn apart by dogs in the camps, and because of my age I could horrifically identify with them and realised that adults could be so murderous to innocent children. It made a very deep impression and I have hated fascists and fascism every since.

Vietnam War

bunkum written by the victors.

Blizzard of 1888