Comments | ilfar: Historical Type Things

ilfar

Historical Type Things

Jan 22, 2008 15:57

Giving all these Hitch-Hikers free rides round the area is great for expanding your outlook on life. For instance, while mentioning historic spots in the area, you kinda realise that for New Zealand, history is the mid-1800s. Hell, stuff happening in the early 1900s is old, old stuff for us. Then I got to talking with one guy from Germany about ( Read more... )

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greytail January 22 2008, 20:31:30 UTC

Last time I looked, only one, Gavrilo Princip, actually managed to shoot him, and even then it was on the spur of the moment. The first two assassins failed to act, the third threw a bomb, but it bounced and got the car following. Princip was in a sandwich shop when the car carrying Franz and his wife took a wrong turn on the way to the hospital to visit those injured by the bomb, and he took the opportunity to shoot them.

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ilfar January 23 2008, 09:28:51 UTC

What the freak are you doing to my journal?!? My loverly journal is historian-fodder! Aiieeeeee! o.o' Oh god, now imagine the google searches I'm going to end up on... "Why has my search for Franz Ferdinand turned up volumes of fish porn?"

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greytail January 22 2008, 20:33:33 UTC

The last primary school I went to started as a one-room school in 1884, so its main gate has plaques to both WWI and WWII. It's a huge concrete arch surmounted by a crown. Looks slightly odd in a small town of maybe a couple of hundred people.

ilfar January 23 2008, 22:16:25 UTC

I'll bet that small town had a plaque somewhere too?

It just feels like it completely permeates New Zealand, and I'm curious if it does to the same degree elsewhere...

greytail January 24 2008, 07:42:45 UTC

As far as I can remember, there were no memorials or anything. The only thing I remember that recalled anything was the anchor of the Harriet outside the Rahotu Tavern.