What do you like learning about?

[RosieLemonade]

I literally cannot stop reading about the Titanic. There is something about the enormity of it that I just find compelling. I love finding little details about it.

I'm also having a bit of a moment with Ancient Greek mythology particularly the Trojan war. I've read so many takes on the same story but I still want more!

It used to be Jack the Ripper. I've gone off true crime a lot lately. However I've found a new book about Jack and can't wait to start it tonight.

You might like a modern translation of Metamorphoses, Greek mythology, I loved it.

WW1 and 2 I find interesting, just when I think I know a lot of stories then I read about something else (the Comet line across the Pyrenees being one, Oradour-sur-Glane another that I have just now read about on another thread).

I don't watch films, but documentaries and interviews, yes.

I find the Romans fascinating. I find stories about American pioneers fascinating, the stories written by Willa Cather are beautiful.

I'm currently obsessed with Moorish Spain!

The 1930’s and 40’s.

Unexplained disappearances, especially in wilderness areas. I've watched and read everything in the Missing 411 series and anything else I can find. There's endless stuff on Reddit etc. I'm especially fascinated by cases of people who disappear in national parks and forests whilst hiking or hunting, and there are countless cases all over the world.

www.outsideonline.com/2164446/leave-no-trace#close

medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/the-deaths-of-two-dutch-women-in-panama-is-still-a-mystery-f341f1fdf593

Anything to do with British kings and queens. Especially tudors. I'm a bit of a geek 🤓

@elQuintoConyo

You might like a modern translation of Metamorphoses, Greek mythology, I loved it.

WW1 and 2 I find interesting, just when I think I know a lot of stories then I read about something else (the Comet line across the Pyrenees being one, Oradour-sur-Glane another that I have just now read about on another thread).

I don't watch films, but documentaries and interviews, yes.

I find the Romans fascinating. I find stories about American pioneers fascinating, the stories written by Willa Cather are beautiful.

I'm currently obsessed with Moorish Spain!

A good friend who passed away a couple of years ago, F/Lt Jimmy Stewart, DFC of, a Typhoon Pilot of 609 Squadron who was shot down by flak in the run up to D-Day, was helped by the Comet Line (or possibly the Bourgoyne line). He was one of the Allied Airmen betrayed by Jacques DeSoubrie in the summer of 1944 and sent from Fresnes to Buchenwald where they were saved from execution (scheduled for less than 24 hours later) by the SS by a Luftwaffe officer, one of 166 Allied Airmen who were sent there including Phil Lamason for whom Jimmy had the highest regard. There is an outstanding documentary on this, The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, available and Jimy can be seen in some wartime footage wandering around Paris in the film Reseau X (available in full on youtube) and recounting the tale in more recent years. The following is a little taster:

"Stewart was betrayed in Paris and was one of the unique group of 168 Allied airmen sent first to Fresnes Prison and subsequently Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Weimar, Germany from July to October 1944. Here, as often threatened, many found their only escape through the chimneys of the crematoriums and ‘Nix Soldat, Civil!’ from the SS, is a phrase which has never left him. Liberation took place on 11th April 1945. On 10th September 1945 he was contacted by the Military Intelligence of the American Forces and informed that ‘they had tracked down my treacherous Gestapo agent Jacques. I confronted Jacques and warned him, ‘If this fellow leaves us alone, you are a dead man’. I know full well I would have strangled him. However he was executed by firing squad on 19th December 1945’.

Various intrigues

Forensic science various branches of forensics.
Serial killers and the psychological of them.
Archaeology and ancient history's e.g. The terracotta warriors, ancient Egypt , Genghis khan, various other important archaeological items from history.
Wilderness survival skills, tracking methods, camp site basics,
Underground construction, underground bunkers.
The documentaries shows, how it's made, modern marvels,
Understanding the stock market.
Various management theories e.g. Peter drucker, kizen, bpr, porter, ect
The economic theory of mercantilism.
Various philosophers e.g. Plato, Machiavelli, Socrates,
Various inventors , da vinci, telsa, Archimedes, e=mc2 ect.
Various aspects of science and technology during the cold war era, the various espionage and intelligence gathering methods of that era.

That's the basics so far.

Oh, interesting thread.

I like learning everything there is to know about names, their history, their meanings, their popularity (looking up all the statistics), how they are perceived in different countries, what made people choose particular names. I find it all fascinating.