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by Ole
Believe the History Channel still airs CW stuff, but mostly seems to air at 0 dark thirty -- well before the general populace gets a sniff of coffee
True enuff. I've got a DVR deal thru my cable company that records it for me.(sort of like Tivo I guess but I don't know Tivo from Shinola) I still have the Franklin episode to watch yet, which I'm looking forward to.
by Opn
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In either case the program usually tends to anger both of the only two groups who really know that there was a Civil War or cares
Oh, they pack the commercials in there for sure. And they are cliff notes, I agree. They are "documentaries" only in the sense that they use the Ken Burns style of panning and doing the slow close ups on photographs of the period, and lots of interviews with the historians, on camera. Unfortunately no film footage from that time.
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by Ole
Taking, in stride, the risk of offending a good many of some dear friends, Jackson was a fruitcake.
Yes I suppose, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to go thru life so firm in your faith that you wouldn't notice your own eccentricities? Or at least able to go thru life at peace. There's a lot to be said for inner peace....a concept which waved "bye-bye" to me ages ago.
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
Yes I suppose, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to go thru life so firm in your faith that you wouldn't notice your own eccentricities?
What a refreshing way to look at things! Thanks.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
It would be neat if they could do a one hour talk/tour with park rangers at their respective battlefield parks. That should be good for a couple of seasons.
Last Night on the History Channel caught Washington the Warrior and First Invasion: War of 1812. What the History Channel does well now is they stage little re-enactments and have actors recreating the scenes. Works well, brings it to life a little bit better.
Of course watching those two shows will make you firmly anti-British for an hour or so. Thos redcoats just make me so mad
Those Sons of Liberty (or SoBs) make me mad. What they did to the King's men would be considered terrorism today. I'm inclined to favour the crown (at Williamsburg, they have a program that shows the city during the Revolution and being an upstart, I raised my hat to the person representing Benedict Arnold. "God Bless King George!" I was called a traitor by some local) but would have sat it out as a Quaker (or more accurately, a coward pretending to be a Quaker).
Folks check your channel lineup on your cable or satellite systems. History has shifted the majority of military history programming to the Military History channel. Now, it doesn't show much if any CW stuff, but there's plenty of WW2, WW1 etc on it. That is where most of their style of programming from years past has been shifted to.
I used to be a History Channel junkie, but whoever is running that channel has made a shift in the direction of the channel that just turns me off. Modern Marvels etc is not history. They're becoming more like TLC and Discovery channel.
Again swimming upstream, I like the History Channel. True, the history of fast food or junk food is not "history." But I am hopelessly addicted to learning something -- anything -- new. Although the making of Snickers bars or Twinkies isn't history, it is discovery.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Folks check your channel lineup on your cable or satellite systems. History has shifted the majority of military history programming to the Military History channel.
There's a Military History channel?
My cable company doesn't offer it, but then, there are a lot of channels my cable company doesn't offer.
I guess the fact that I'm complaining points to how spoiled we are in the modern era of communications. When I was younger, there were only three channels on TV, although as I recall, one of them carried a weekly history program called "You Are There" which frequently focused on World War II.
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