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[QUOTE="OmCheeto, post: 6064298, member: 103343"] By some weird coincidence, I watched the Sept 28, 2017 episode yesterday, which also happened to be the narrators 50th birthday, which he mentioned. I'm now up to week 184 (Jan 1918), and there were still very little few signs of intelligent life on the planet. I was almost sad, that I'd started watching this series. But, standing on my back porch, contemplating all of this, I realized, that much of the last 100 years, makes a lot more sense now. It's also hammered in the "who's" and the "where's" holes in my memory. [INDENT]Had anyone asked me a month ago, who wrote "War and Peace", I would have had an equal chance of guessing "Trotsky" as well as "Tolstoy". "The Balkins" vs "The Baltics" always confused me. I now know where "The Dardanelles" is. (I always assumed it was in France. Silly me!) I now know where the "Caucasus Mountains" vs the "Carpathian Mountains" are situated. (Until tomorrow. I'm forgetting stuff nowadays faster than I learn it. :( ) Erwin Rommel's date of death struck me as kind of "funny". He was a general in WW1, which I did not know. I now understand why assassination was such a popular post WW1 method of solving problems. Too bad they didn't kill Lenin, that one day...[/INDENT] hmmm... This is one of the problems I have with this series: Hindsight, is 20/20. ps. Looking forward to the end of "this" war. pps. This is interesting. Tolstoy and Trotsky were born 50 years apart. [INDENT]Trotsky 1879-1940 [INDENT]Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City ... with an ice axe... Mercader acted upon instruction from Stalin and was nearly beaten to death by Trotsky's bodyguards, and spent the next 20 years in a Mexican prison for the murder. Stalin presented Mercader with an Order of Lenin in absentia. [ref: wiki][/INDENT] Tolstoy 1829-1910 [INDENT]Wrote a couple of books. [ref: me & wiki][/INDENT][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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