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Thread #34647   Message #468687
Posted By: mousethief
23-May-01 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: Use of Folk Music in History Education
Subject: RE: BS: Use of Folk Musiv in History Education
SPECIFIC

KEY: historical event: "song title" by Artist, album it's on (click on song title for lyrics)

Fall of Constantinople, 1453: "Constantinople" by Al Stewart, 24 Carrots

Second Great Northern War, 1793: "Coldest Winter in Memory" by Al Stewart, Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

German invasion of Russia during WW2; treatment of Russian officers after the war: "Roads to Moscow" by Al Stewart, Past Present and Future

Shoah (Holocaust during WW2): "Trains" by Al Stewart, Famous Last Words

Treaty of Versailles: "League of Notions" by Al Stewart, Between the Wars

Stalin's rise to power: "Joe the Georgian" by Al Stewart, Between the Wars

Lindbergh's famous flight: "Lindy Comes to Town" by Al Stewart, Between the Wars

Spanish Civil War: "Always the Cause" by Al Stewart, Between the Wars

Benjamin Franklin: "Franklin's Table" by Al Stewart, Down in the Cellar

Death of Ernst Roehm, last challenger to Hitler's hegemony over the Nazi Party: "Last Day of June, 1934" by Al Stewart, Past Present and Future

Presidency of Warren G. Harding: "Warren Harding" by Al Stewart, Past Present and Future

Events at the start of the Great War: "Manuscript" by Al Stewart, To Whom It May Concern

Life of Admiral Lord (John) Fisher, and role of the British and German navies in the Great War: "Old Admirals" by Al Stewart, Past Present and Future

Thomas More: "Man for All Seasons", by Al Stewart, Time Passages

French Revolution: "Palace of Versailles" by Al Stewart, Time Passages

The Murmansk run (supplying goods to Russia during WW2): "Murmansk Run/Ellis Island" by Al Stewart, 24 Carrots

Ellis Island: "Murmansk Run/Ellis Island" by Al Stewart, 24 Carrots

The Cold War: "Russians and Americans" by Al Stewart, Russians and Americans

Josephine Baker: "Josephine Baker" by Al Stewart, Last Days of the Century

Trojan War: "Helen and Cassandra" by Al Stewart, Last Days of the Century

Peter the Great and the founding of the Russian Navy: "Peter on the White Sea" by Al Stewart, Famous Last Words

A very expressionistic view of the Nuremburg trials: "Necromancer" by Al Stewart, Famous Last Words

Appeasement and the run-up to WW2: "Three Mules" by Al Stewart, Between the Wars

Life of Marion Davies (wife of W.R. Hearst): "Marion the Chatelaine" by Al Stewart, Between the Wars

Alex (ps if I screwed up any of the HTML will a Joe Clone please fix? I tried to be real careful but sometimes things slip through. Thanks.)