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If you could experience one historical event firsthand, which would it be and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me it is the "fall of the Berlin wall" and the celebrations after the border openings.

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[-] merari42@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Why shouldn't it count?

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Because it wasn't that long ago.

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

But it's still considered a major historic event. The Berlin wall falling was even more recent and definitely historic.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Non sequitor here but both of these things happened during pablo picassos lifetime

As a great name in the artworld i was always surprised that lived in the modern era and not a previous one like many other "everyone knows these names" artists

[-] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

In science, especially math, all the famous scientists lived long ago. Newton, Euler, etc.

In computer science only the very pioneers are dead already. A lot of groundbreaking work was done by people who are still alive, or even still in working age.

It's so weird!

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Its not impossible that woodstock contributed to the wall coming down

Was a huge cultural event that wildly exceeded expectations and became a phenomenon

Then the wall came down about 4 years later

Edit: i have been fact checked and found wanting. 73 is not 83

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