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I love history, but have trouble finding others who do.

Feel free to add as many details as you like. I love interacting with other history buffs.

Especially if they are family members. I try to just smile and shrug it off, but it's very frustrating at times. I really have to bite my lip or contain my anger sometimes. The following are actual comments. "The Earth isn't that old. No more than 10,000 years." "We never went to the moon...

How long did it take you to acquire proficiency? Did you begin with "readers" or start with original texts?

For me it's Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Rilke, Keats, Baudelaire, John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Byron.

I enjoy reading about almost any battle or commander: Civil wars (US, Russian, English, etc), Franco-Prussian, Peloponnesian, Crimean, Hundred Years War, Thirty Years War, WW I & II, Succession wars, etc. etc.

Why would you recommend them?