I have always wondered...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

I'll eventually find something cool about it and want to study it.

I'm sure you will. The big jolt for me was, believe it or not, watching Grand Prix racing films from the 1930s through the '50s, and playing a board game that covers those periods. Adolph Hitler attended the 1932 Italian Grand Prix and insisted that German start entering and winning races. This lead to Mercedes Benz becoming a major contender and to Ferdinand Porsche forming the Auto Union from four different companies. Their four-ring symbol can still be seen on the front of Audi cars today.

But atm, I'm big into the 20th Century Wars.

I was born in 1950. For a great many years history started and ended with World War Two. There was no ground war. Winston Churchill led the Americans to sink the Bismarck (Johnny Horton said so!) and the B-17 Flying Fortress and P-51 Mustang won the war all by themselves.

So there!