I have always wondered...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

It's world history pre-1900 in general that bores me. I do like American History before 1900 but has to be after 1700...That 1608 Jamestown Colony crap gets old quick.

You're doing yourself a great disservice, and I hope that someday you'll find out just how rich history - all history - can be.

It looks like you missed this thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=199110

Read the entries from February 15-23 to find out about Columbus the badass.

There are many cool things you probably don't know about Columbus and his contemproraries, about Washington and his friends. If all you care about is 20th-century warfare, then you might as well admit you don't care about history at all. I recently read a three-volume set on the economic causes and effects of naval warfare in the period from the Spanish Armada through the end of the British-French wars of the 1700s. Fascinating stuff. I'm also currently collecting music from the Baroque era, and concurrently reading about the composers and how they interacted with kings and princes.

Also, if you're not interested in the pre-1700s then you've probably missed out on one of the best series of novels ever written - The Three Musketeers and its four sequels. Poor you.