Eighteen - Audio

[pakisunotpaku]

You know, July fourth was an important day for me too, in 1947. Not a holiday or anything, but it was the day when the Indian Independence Bill was presented to the House of Commons. It suggested me and Indo should live in different houses, so me and Bangaru went to live together and Indo lived alone. Indo's never minded living alone though. She

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[mashespotatoes]

History has been rather ironic. So many things have happened on November 9th, that it's been referred to as Schicksalstag, the fateful day.

[pakisunotpaku]

What kind of things happened?

[mashespotatoes]

The first was in '48, er, 1848. We'd had a serious of revolutions, and one of the leaders, Robert Blum, was executed. In 1918, after the November Revolution, we stopped having a monarchy. Wilhelm II was dethroned, but I imagine we saw that one coming more or less, after the failure of the war. Things became a little confusing for that period of time, but it consolidated.

Some years later, in 1923, was the Beer Hall Putsch, and then Kristallnacht in '38.

[He's quiet for a moment.]

Fateful day, indeed.

In '89 the wall fell. Sometimes people ask me why we don't celebrate it like a national holiday or something of that nature but, ah...we decided against it, all things considering.

[pakisunotpaku]

Oh wow... All of that huh?

What are your national holidays?

...I um...I don't know a lot about European houses, except Briten's....