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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7338733, member: 19463"]For those who no longer think history is just the study of buffoons wearing crowns, I'll attach a link on Jonathan Wild. It will be of no value here to our members who don't even collect coins of usurpers. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild</a></p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate why history is an interesting study, I'll link the Wikipedia page for the year Jonathan Wild was hanged. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1725" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1725" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1725</a></p><p>It should drive most of you to research at least one point more in depth. Part of me regrets that there is not similar coverage of every year in the Ancient world and that we do not have a page on the criminals and everyday people of the period we study. The other part of me admits that I can't keep up with what is known about antiquity even when so much material has survived only scantily. How does one study modern history (only a few hundred years old)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7338733, member: 19463"]For those who no longer think history is just the study of buffoons wearing crowns, I'll attach a link on Jonathan Wild. It will be of no value here to our members who don't even collect coins of usurpers. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild[/URL] To illustrate why history is an interesting study, I'll link the Wikipedia page for the year Jonathan Wild was hanged. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1725[/URL] It should drive most of you to research at least one point more in depth. Part of me regrets that there is not similar coverage of every year in the Ancient world and that we do not have a page on the criminals and everyday people of the period we study. The other part of me admits that I can't keep up with what is known about antiquity even when so much material has survived only scantily. How does one study modern history (only a few hundred years old)?[/QUOTE]
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