Let's grow our thoughts and expand on our knowledge!
By Artists91
@Artists91 (25)
United States
October 18, 2010 12:09pm CST
I would like to start out by pointing out that this discussion will be on going, continuously. This is how it works!
I will lay down a question, and through that question, we will discuss and find the answer to. Once that happens, we will continue with another one question. This can be about anything on anything. This is to help all of us to grow our thoughts, and improve on our knowledge! No one can post another question unless I say we have finally answered the last one and we can go on.
1st) What happened to France in 1749 that was significant to their economy?
And so we begin!
1 response
@marguicha (222869)
• Chile
22 Oct 10
I like your game but I think it would have more answers if you first checked on the kind of interests that mylotters have. I aam a cultivated person yet, at this time of my like, I couldn´t care less about what happened to France then. History tends to have different meanings according to the time machine. I read, a long time ago, that a little later than your post-date, the biggest London newspaper placed in it´s first page about Napoleon disembarking after being exiled in the island of Elba. In that same newspaper, in one of the inside pages and using very little space, there was a notice about a conference that would be held at the Royal Society by a certain Mr Faraday. I bet everyone read the front page and only a few people cared for this man. Yet, for us, it is far more important that Faraday discovered electromagnetism and electrochemistry than all the deeds of Napoleon.
I did not answer you post. Or did I?
Take care. Life is only present.
@Artists91 (25)
• United States
24 Oct 10
Actually, double checking my research its 1789 not 49. I would like to disagree with you. History is VERY important to our life, as the saying goes "Those who know not of the past are doomed to repeat it," and that saying has known to come true over and over again. If we didn't know of our history long ago, then we would screw things up now. That is true, it can be skewed depending on who you talk to. But, there are things that remain being facts, no matter who says what.
@marguicha (222869)
• Chile
25 Oct 10
I did not mean to imply that History is not importat. In fact, I´m one of those people that feel that History is VERY important. What I meant to say is that interpretations of History vary according to the passage of time. So, even though History is important as a way of understanding ourselves, we must have it as a starting point to do beyond it. I tend to get more involved in facts than in dates, in people than in numbers.