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[choco_frosh]

Spent most of today eaither working from home, or procrastinating from same; but I also managed a quick hike up to the water tower, and to make a potroast.

(Maybe I should have done something for Armistice Day? But it's now been OVER a century, and it's not like most of us remember the anniversary of Appomattox or Yorktown or Waterloo.)

Anyway, I'm gonna go fall over now.

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[lauradi7dw]

I spent my holiday pondering over the last few days reading the Remembrance performance reports on BB and thinking about living Vietnam vets, as I told Sovay.

It's always nice to learn something new.
I know you weren't suggesting a quiz, but I have taken it as such.
Before checking, I guessed close to the Appomattox date, but having grown up a few miles from where Johnston surrendered to Sherman, I think of the end of that war as a little later than the Appomattox date. The technical end was later in April 1865 than either of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Place

I know by heart the date of the Treaty of Paris that ended our revolution (as opposed to all those other treaties of Paris). Sept 3, 1783 was a couple of years after the decisive battle at Yorktown. We rang for the two hundredth anniversary on the newly rehung bells at ON.

I knew that Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, but had no idea that it was considered the end of the war, or that it was in 1815.