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M.A. History and eastern European History Future teacher? Recommender of games at gamelife Chur. Weirdly obsessed with the history of milk preservation Regularly obsessed with history of science, medicine and social history of the body.
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Johann Hübners Vollständige Geographie from 1743 is one of those tomes I enjoy casually reading. It's like having eyes and ears in the mid 18th century. It doesn't feature a single map, which makes it all the more entertaining as it features countless thoughts on the people instead.

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I've been staring at this tree for years now. Nothing like a huge tree to put the flow of time into perspective.

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I don't like the phrase "history repeats itself", as historical developments are too multifactorial to just repeat. But sometimes people treat it as a playbook and make it a little bit too easy, so yeah... There are definitely familiar developments and they are not nice.

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Surely you wouldn't weld the gas-pipe with the pressure still on? Meanwhile in the USSR 1966: The history of peaceful nukes is fascinating, but rarely does the Urtabulaq Gas-Field fire get enough credit as the one major event where fighting fire with fire worked.

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I still think it is odd to force future teachers into getting a job first. However, now I am in the unique position to talk about segregation in "Bioshock Infinite", old computers like the Didactic Gama, historical references in "The Last of Us", or social criticism of war in "Army Of Two".

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Yesterday I taught 4 lessons on the rise of the NSDAP and a certain austrian painter. Nobody in the teaching diploma course told me how much of a challenge it would be to hold back tears and expletives about the current developments mirroring a lot of that time.

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