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xenithNeed to get to bed. Spend today at Evandale - at the market & mum's place -- then Nicquel's place after that. Haven't had time to get anything done.
Well, watching TV. Rewind is an interesting show. It looks at interesting events from Australia's post esp. mysteries and tries to find an answers. So, we find out that the Yanks didn't poison Phar Lap after all & the Hanging Rock story is mostly all fiction & the 'EK' marker in the old cemetary at Melbourne Gaol isn't Edward Kelly (and neither is the skull hi . Which is probably going over everyone's head ;)
Their method is a bit questionable at time. In one episode they looked at the death of William Hughes' daughter. He was prime minister back in teh 1930s. She, young & umarried, went to London and died there, and gossip says she died from complications from an abortion. So, they spend part of the segment looking into paperwork between London & the PM blah blah blah before they decide to look at her death certificate, and find out she died in childbirth. Maybe I'm strange, but if I'm trying to find out how someone died, I'd look at the death certificate first. Makes for a less interesting story I guess ;) And then they have the "teaser" questions to start each segment which does'nt always get answered.
One of the segments tonight was about a Vietnamese war orphan who wanted to find out where he came from. I was only half watching but they were talking about the evacuation of the orphans from Saigon just before it fell, how they determined where the children would go by sorting cards with names on them into piles (one to America, one to Austalia, one to America, one to Australia) and the mother turns to the son and says, if his card had been put into the US pile, he'd have ended up on the 'Galaxy' and them the scene shifts to show the aftermath of the Galaxy crashing just after take off.
Good example of combining past happenings with personal details to it relevant. Showing that history *is* about people. That's why I like to watch it.
Well, watching TV. Rewind is an interesting show. It looks at interesting events from Australia's post esp. mysteries and tries to find an answers. So, we find out that the Yanks didn't poison Phar Lap after all & the Hanging Rock story is mostly all fiction & the 'EK' marker in the old cemetary at Melbourne Gaol isn't Edward Kelly (and neither is the skull hi . Which is probably going over everyone's head ;)
Their method is a bit questionable at time. In one episode they looked at the death of William Hughes' daughter. He was prime minister back in teh 1930s. She, young & umarried, went to London and died there, and gossip says she died from complications from an abortion. So, they spend part of the segment looking into paperwork between London & the PM blah blah blah before they decide to look at her death certificate, and find out she died in childbirth. Maybe I'm strange, but if I'm trying to find out how someone died, I'd look at the death certificate first. Makes for a less interesting story I guess ;) And then they have the "teaser" questions to start each segment which does'nt always get answered.
One of the segments tonight was about a Vietnamese war orphan who wanted to find out where he came from. I was only half watching but they were talking about the evacuation of the orphans from Saigon just before it fell, how they determined where the children would go by sorting cards with names on them into piles (one to America, one to Austalia, one to America, one to Australia) and the mother turns to the son and says, if his card had been put into the US pile, he'd have ended up on the 'Galaxy' and them the scene shifts to show the aftermath of the Galaxy crashing just after take off.
Good example of combining past happenings with personal details to it relevant. Showing that history *is* about people. That's why I like to watch it.
