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Favorite Historical Places You’ve Visited

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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

    My mom's family on her dad's side left Germany in the 1880's to come here because of the militarization of the recently remodeled empire

    My uncle flew bombers over Germany in WW2

    My first boss was a German Jew who had emigrated here and whose family had been taken by the Soviets. He talked about being bombed as a child

    I asked if he had met my uncle ove

    I've always wanted to visited the @RaceBannon birthplace National Historic Site.



    NOC
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076

    My mom's family on her dad's side left Germany in the 1880's to come here because of the militarization of the recently remodeled empire

    My uncle flew bombers over Germany in WW2

    My first boss was a German Jew who had emigrated here and whose family had been taken by the Soviets. He talked about being bombed as a child

    I asked if he had met my uncle ove

    My mother wouldn't let any cuckoo clocks in our house because when she was a child growing up in Vienna during the war, that was the sound the radio would use to warn people that a bombing raid was incoming and that everyone should get to a bomb shelter. My dad once bought her one when they were younger, thinking it would remind her of her homeland, and she pretty much had a panic attack and destroyed it.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,492 Founders Club
    I didn't realize that other quote was with my photo

    It hadn't been vetted by the committee
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    edited January 2019

    89ute said:


    this reminds me, i slept under the world's largest coke sign...



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_billboard
    I’ve crashed at a condo next to the Coke sign in the Cross. IFL Sydney.
    #metoo



    You guys are fags.

    There's more in Australia than coke signs.


    Elle, the body, is mine @PurpleThrobber . You may be in the tall people society here, but you ain't tall enuff for a 6 footer like that.
    The Throbber is pretty fucking long tall.

    I'll take the Kiwi Rachel Hunter instead. Fair enough?


    Deal! Speaking of Rod Stewart (hi @RaceBannon ) did you know that Neil Young is dating Daryl Hannah. Still WOOD.


  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club

    You always have to wood celebrity.

    Hell, the Throbber wood Neil Young even though that is disgusting as fuck. Celebrity, you know. Makes for a good drunk @swaye story

    The Throbber likes how John Mellancamp is banging Meg Ryan, too.

    The Throbber should have learned how to play guitar.

    I learned how to play the guitar...just not very well.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,492 Founders Club
    Neil has always gone for the starlets


  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,278
    edited January 2019
    The Collosseum and Forum in Rome. Nothing in Florence or anywhere else in Tuscany touched it for me. To stand in the very spot from which one guy ruled an area as large as the Roman empire once stretched, at a time when people were still wiping their asses with their hands, was, to say the least, unique and impressive. Assissi was cool ... very cool, but St. Francis doesn't compete well with Julius Ceasar in my book. Still, I recommend the hell out of Assissi. Worth the trip, as it's a bit out of the way.

    Southern Italy is coming up next and Paestum looms large as a great experience ... to see truly intact Greek temples. Fuck. And of course Athens. While the Parthenon and Acropolis are not in great shape relative to other Greek ruins (like southern Italy and southern France), that's where it began and should also be pretty fucking killer.

    The grand daddy of them all is later ... Egypt. Gotta time that one right for obvious reasons. I'm still a little shaky about going right now.