I don't rely only on Wikipedia, because I buy too many history books not to use them. But I've been reading this book about the first fleet to Australia and I want to do a fic outlining England's whole journey there- which is actually really exciting and would feature cameos from the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and France- and then beginnings of the first settlement and so on. I know so many tiny details now I did not need to know which type of fruits the sailors had thrown at them by locals when they came to port (oranges, off the top of my head, I think).
It's like, "Oh, I have a free half hour now I'm done with my homework, I think I'll read about early 20th Century trade negotiations~". At least other history dorks are in it for the cool things like wars.
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Date: 2010-05-18 03:48 pm (UTC)It's like, "Oh, I have a free half hour now I'm done with my homework, I think I'll read about early 20th Century trade negotiations~". At least other history dorks are in it for the cool things like wars.