A Conversation for Great Dates in History
No 1066??!
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Started conversation May 2, 2003
How on Earth did we miss that one? A date burned on the brain of all those who attended school in Britain...
No 1066??!
Baron Grim Posted May 2, 2003
Hey... it was burned into my brain as well and I live in Texas. Of course it was burned in as an afterthought by my English teacher. We had a scheduled "standardized" test coming up the next week and our teachers were tasked with the impossible goal of filling in the holes of about 8 years of spotty public (US public) school education. We crammed and crammed and then at the end of the day before "The Test" my English teacher suddenly shouted out "1066!!, don't forget 1066!"... Our reply was "What about it?" We really didn't know! Teacher replies with some rabid smattering of "Battle of Hastings this... Normans that... feet on British soil the other... Just remember it because 1066 is ALWAYS on big tests!"
It wasn't.
No 1066??!
TAFKAR2 Posted May 2, 2003
In Ireland we got 1014 as more important and 1177 as more annoying.
How important was 1066? A bunch of Viking-descended provincial skinhead hard men led by a Bastard bullied a German-descended king whose German-descended assistant was off fighting Danes in the north. And he won because he had stirrups. Very useful stuff, history.
...or all that.
the autist formerly known as flinch Posted May 2, 2003
No 55 BC either.
Sellars and Yeatman must be turning in their gravy.
...or all that.
TAFKAR2 Posted May 4, 2003
You're right! Only two dates worth remembering and this whole list forgot 'em.
Until now that is.
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