Every day is seems another "mystery" has been solved. Is it important to know or should these people be allowed to rest in peace?
2007-01-17 03:42:42 · 8 answers · asked by Rabbit 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Being the history buff that I am, it's extremely important! These things often keep people like me up at night. It's like reading a mystery novel that keeps getting better and better and then, when I'm turning to the last page, where everything is revealed, someone has ripped that page out!! For years I have wondered how Napoleon died. Was he poisoned by someone who feared he would escape again and actually manage to take over the world this time around? Did the humidity on St. Helena cause the arsenic pigment in his house's wallpaper to evaporate and slowly poison him to death? No and no! It was gastrointestinal cancer. Even more important than finally getting to read the final page of this figurative mystery novel is that speculative history just got a little better, too.
Speculative history is something history nuts like myself enjoy immensely. It's sort of a game where we say, "What would have happened if...?" and then try to decide how alternate events would have changed the world. This find has drastically changed one of those speculations. Even if Napoleon had escaped, he would not have been able to alter the course of history. At least, not on the grand scale we had previously imagined.
I feel that history is important in all of its aspects. Without an extensive knowledge of history, one is doomed to repeat it. Without knowledge of world events long before one was born, how can one be expected to pay attention to current events (ie, history in the making)?
2007-01-17 03:58:35 · answer #1 · answered by Avie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more important that Americans know where their own states are located.
2007-01-17 03:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it can be important because it is a part of our history in a way. and it is interesting to ponder what might have happened had they lived longer.
2007-01-17 03:46:40 · answer #3 · answered by vix9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not really important ..but its interesting..it happen along time ago..you have to do something on the history channel..it cant all be about war...
2007-01-17 03:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by Kingofreportedabuse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pink Lady has the correct answer. He was only about 19 years old at the time.
2016-05-24 00:11:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really important no.
2007-01-17 03:45:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it s not important to me
2007-01-17 03:45:18 · answer #7 · answered by happyday to you 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we should know these things...it's good for us.
God bless
2007-01-17 03:45:26 · answer #8 · answered by inlovew/jesus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋