h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This house doesn't scare me...well some of the utility bills do. No cellar and not much of an attic. My parents bought this house just after it had been built. So, any haunting here would be my family...now, there *is* a scary thought.

I do live about fifteen minutes from another Civil War Battle ground, Port Hudson. It doesn't seem to have the paranormal activity of other battlefields. At least not when I've visited there. Been there twice to see my brother who is a re enactor. A third visit was just a hike around the park and a climb over the Confederate earthworks (trenches).

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/71hudson/71hudson.htm

and just as I was reading Remarque - Im Westen nichts neues (no news from the western front) on the 1914 trench war ..
I'm never sure whether I should be fascinated or not by accounts from wars like that?

That isn't the same book as "All Quiet on the Western Front" or is it? I have read a bit about WWI, the air battles mostly. Fascinating, only I have so much other history to read...

yess.. .. you're right I guess that's the correct title
so much to read, so little time you're right in that as well..

Titles change from one country to another. I was wondering if it was the same book I vaguely remember having to read for one of my classes. Smallish book, written from the viewpoint of a young German soldier...about all I can remember.

My problem with history is that: Even though I find it really fascinating, and some of the stories of what people have done are really amazing, dates and sometimes names refuse to stay in my memory.

same book.. (* yes, about a German soldier .. but the way it is written makes it very readable *)
and names and dates.. my usual attitude is "never remember what you can look up"

Sort of like the Why and How is far more interesting than the Who and When... Although in some instances, the Who matters *very* much.

(* "geography as about maps, history is about chaps": both wrong *)
the who and when is easy to look up, why and how is something you should understand..??

Exactly Try putting as an exam answer "some really important guy did this because it was an incredible tactical maneuver in a battle that was fought for what he thought was a good cause, on a day I can't remember..." Ooh how I hated memorizing dates and names

Fortunately, my brother, the re enactor, has a history degree(and accounting). If something really confuses me, I ask him to explain. My other brother reads everything, including history, but his degrees are in other subjects.

re enactor a guy living not far from here has a late medieval harness.. hand made in England.. metal from top to toe.. and he does performances
He told me what it cost him.. and then he has a horse (not too happy with the weight), and a group of foot soldiers amazing.. I could not understand why he does these things (imagine 20 degC or warmer in a full metal harness?? )

That is the same brother with the bagpipes and kilt, by the way.

We went to a Renaissance Festival last year. It was in late November, the weather was kind of cool. The very idea of full armor in the heat. Poor horse... having to put up with all that nonsense.

I never asked the horse, and neither did he..
the weight is ..

If he had been asked, the horse probably would have replied no.
A group of foot soldiers? His neighbors aren't a bit worried? I would be if the guy next door had his own army and weapons.

ah, and there's more.. a nice red gallow as well! and in a full show he includes a hanging every two hours

A gallows would definitely bother me in a neighbor's yard. If he runs out of victims, there's a few annoying people...

he did a show a few weeks ago in the vilage I live in I think he brought his own convicts and I also think they were revived to play the bagpipe in the next part of the show

You're sure they weren't put on the gallows for playing the bagpipes?

now that you mention it... that could be of course!

Have you ever seen Bugs Bunny, the cartoon character?

but of course! his movie (videotape) is one of my favourites! and I try to watch all his short sketches