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On his way to Waterloo Station?mymodeltrain wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:57 pm Rik, that is Napoleon, indeed, as a friend of mine told me about that.
If you notice, I also have Abraham Lincoln on the other end. I use the model system to teach my daughter how things work and history. When she was a few years old, she stood there, pointed to the figure, and said, "That's Abram Lincoln!"- very fun to hear.drewzero1 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:45 pmOn his way to Waterloo Station?mymodeltrain wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:57 pm Rik, that is Napoleon, indeed, as a friend of mine told me about that.
My father taught world history in high school. He had a large collection of French and English books on those topics. Growing up in Saigon during the 70s and 80s, I disliked playing sports since it was a hot country. On the other hand, I felt enjoyable reading history books whenever I was free. I learned a lot of things around the world from these books. My favorite was the Second World War; I read nearly everything available from all perspectives. Sometimes, I tore a few pages that have the photos of the Normandy landing to show off to my friends. My father was very upset later on when he found pages were missing. Since then, they checked my school bag every day before going to school to ensure I didn't tear his book. Thirty years later, I was at Cambridge University for a conference, and a university historian there told us that in one of the colleges (I forgot the name) where, Allied Generals met in secret to plan the D-day since that college had very large rooms so they can spread out large maps for the planning. History is amazing, specifically when we can witness it.FWLR wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 9:14 am Thats just brilliant. The lighting is superb and a model to show off quite rightly..
The idea for talking history with your line is also brilliant. Unfortunately history isn't taught that much now in the schools and what there is it's mainly about the Romans from what my second youngest granddaughter tells me. We had her over a few days ago and I got on to the subject of gas masks and she looked at me with eyes that said " What the heck are you going on about" when I told her why they were worn, she just shrugged her shoulders and carried on with something else. How very disappointing it is, I learned a lot about history and even now I am finding out things that I never knew about then.
Sorry for digressing.....
(or is it Nelson?)