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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by rdtsc »

m741 wrote: post #138
rdtsc wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been to Gettysburg multiple times. Once did a guided tour of the battlefields with a guide. It was very interesting. I wasn't born in this country (WWII is the major battle I learned about) but it was still fascinating seeing sites and learning the history, since it is my new country I want to know as much as possible about it. It is a different understand to see the place and be told, here is where attacked,…

Fort Sumter isn't really a major site (it's got a lot of name recognition, but not much happened there compared to other places). Antietam is one - the bloodiest day in American history. Then there's a whole bunch in Virginia: The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Manassas (site of two major battles). Further south, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Stones River are all major sites. You probably haven't heard a…

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by exolymph »

Joeboy wrote: post #68
msluyter wrote: post #23

Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ , for a lot of interesting socio-philosophical discussion on a variety of topics. Meditations on Moloch is one of my favorites: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Also the link threads are amazing time wasters. I urge you not to click on the link below if you value your life: http://slatestarcodex.com/tag/links-2/

I actively avoid them because my Instapaper list is overwhelming enough.

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Post by astine »

rdtsc wrote: post #130
brightball wrote: post #119

The US Civil War has been mine for the last couple of years. The sheer volume of history and contributing factors, decades of build up, aftermath, affects on the US today, etc. My goodness, the economics of the whole thing are just fascinating. All the internet debates I saw when the confederate flag came down got me really interested in how so many people could know TOTALLY different things about the most historical…

I have been to Gettysburg multiple times. Once did a guided tour of the battlefields with a guide. It was very interesting. I wasn't born in this country (WWII is the major battle I learned about) but it was still fascinating seeing sites and learning the history, since it is my new country I want to know as much as possible about it. It is a different understand to see the place and be told, here is where attacked,…

Manassas (Bull Run); Fredericksburg; Anywhere in northern Virginia, really.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by 24gttghh »

rdtsc wrote: post #130
brightball wrote: post #119

The US Civil War has been mine for the last couple of years. The sheer volume of history and contributing factors, decades of build up, aftermath, affects on the US today, etc. My goodness, the economics of the whole thing are just fascinating. All the internet debates I saw when the confederate flag came down got me really interested in how so many people could know TOTALLY different things about the most historical…

I have been to Gettysburg multiple times. Once did a guided tour of the battlefields with a guide. It was very interesting. I wasn't born in this country (WWII is the major battle I learned about) but it was still fascinating seeing sites and learning the history, since it is my new country I want to know as much as possible about it. It is a different understand to see the place and be told, here is where attacked,…

Fredicksburg, Vicksburg, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Chancellorsville, Wilderness (Overland), Bull Run I & II (Manassas), Shiloh, Chickamauga, Appomattox... in no particular order ...but yeah you could spend your whole life just visiting the different sites and not see them all I reckon...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by exolymph »

msluyter wrote: post #23

Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ , for a lot of interesting socio-philosophical discussion on a variety of topics. Meditations on Moloch is one of my favorites: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

"I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup" is one of the greatest pieces of political writing ever. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by astine »

m741 wrote: post #138
rdtsc wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been to Gettysburg multiple times. Once did a guided tour of the battlefields with a guide. It was very interesting. I wasn't born in this country (WWII is the major battle I learned about) but it was still fascinating seeing sites and learning the history, since it is my new country I want to know as much as possible about it. It is a different understand to see the place and be told, here is where attacked,…

Fort Sumter isn't really a major site (it's got a lot of name recognition, but not much happened there compared to other places). Antietam is one - the bloodiest day in American history. Then there's a whole bunch in Virginia: The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Manassas (site of two major battles). Further south, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Stones River are all major sites. You probably haven't heard a…

The Battles of Manassas are known as the Battles of Bull Run outside of the South. They are both Southern victories and the first was the first major battle of the war.
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