Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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Re: Iconography

[luzula]

Catholicism and Protestantism are kind of a big deal in Ireland
Hee. That's just current events, and not limited to history.

I would instinctively have used the French revolution as a reference point for "something people will definitely have heard of that happened in the 18th century". But I suppose the American revolution is better in the US. : D

I do not foresee any of these people going, "But Hadrian didn't have mistresses!" in a movie theater any time soon. ;)
Heh, probably not!

Re: Iconography

[mildred_of_midgard]

That's just current events, and not limited to history.

Yep. And that's the reason I said "humanities" and not "history". :) (There are other examples of a complete lack of humanities knowledge. Like when I was chatting about there being Ender's Game books from different characters' points of view, and one engineer went, "Point of view, point of view...is that like first-person, second-person?")

Ooh, French revolution, yes, that might help. I'll mention Marie Antoinette if it happens again, thank you! I think people might know her name even if "French revolution" means nothing to them (we only covered it in one class the entire time I was in school), and all they think when they hear her name is "Let them eat cake."