considering i wasnt able to go to secondary school, i dont have a bloody clue if they teach it, but i know what you meen.

V. little is taught about Australia or America's history in the UK schools. When we've been taught about WW2 it almost completely revolves around the Blitz, the war in western Europe and Montgomery's desert rats. They touch mildly on the fact that the Japanese were up to something and perhaps the Russians were involved somewhere but it never really goes into things properly. Funnily enough we were taught about Mughal India. My guess is that since there is such a large number of people at school with Indian backgrounds, they felt it was worth teaching us that?

but Watergate isn't a detail of history, it was one of the major world events of the 2nd half of the 20th C.

..how I dearly wish I was not here..

Perhaps so Taw, but I assume that there wasn't room for it in the school's curriculum . Bloody Australian Catholic schools! There's only so long that you can spend learning about early Australian and Aboriginal history and remain interested. That's why I studied European history at Uni; nothing has happened in Aus., the country is still too young. Aboriginal massacres, Stolen Generation, Federation, Bushrangers, The Eureka Stockade, Gold Mining, and that's about it. Aus. history is so boring!

so? it wasn't taught at my school either, but I remember at the time and I've read about it since. Just saying "we weren't taught it at school" isn't good enough, you should go and find stuff out for yourself.

Most of the stuff I learnt at school has been irrelevant except for a bit of maths, basic science and languages, everything else of any importance or interest I've taught myself since.

..how I dearly wish I was not here..

I agree completely, but there are bound to be gaps in everyone's knowledge Taw, and I have never had much of an interest in American history until a few years ago.

OT: I just started "Heart of Darkness" .

Taw,

Face it. Esqy's too young.

I keep forgetting that although he has the mind of a 90yr old he's actually only 7.

good man. HoD just about the finest novel ever written (imho)

..how I dearly wish I was not here..

Edited by - Tawakalna on 5/28/2004 3:31:35 AM

Fine, fine, bash the young'un who can't defend himself .

so what's the earliest major news item you DO remember, Eskie?

I can remember the Moon landings (just)
Vietnam, although i didn't understand what I was seeing

that would be '69, i was 5, those are the earliest major world events that i can remember from the time.

but my granny could remember her dad's cowshed being bombed by a Zeppelin during the Great War! oddly enough she never forgave the Kaiser, I'm sure he lost no sleep over it though.

i can remember the storm of '87 when i where nobut a lad

I remember the birth and death of this Universe. I witnessed Creation and Time's corruption.

Beat that!

i cant beat that, but i can beat you * gets a baseball bat*

More spill from the latest release of documents. Transcriptions of Kissy Kiss's conversations with Richard Millstone Nixon..... With, of course, some words oddly missing from the tapes, what may be tantamount to a mutual admission between these two that they engineered Allende's fall in Chile.

Ah the pustule that won't stop festering ... that is the Nixon legacy.