INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS
What do you think the world was like a hundred years ago? How about the exact place
where you're sitting or standing or lying down right now?
About UAE:
Before the UAE was known as it is now, it was called the trucial states. UAE
was under the colonialization of the UK. Until the 1930s, UAE depended
highly on the Pearl Industry and Pearl Diving. Pearl diving was thought to be
a humble beginning in trade for the residents of the UAE. It was a barren
land, with no cultivable land and no greenery. UAE was technically nothing
but a underdeveloped wasteland.
About the whole world:
January
January 1: USSR is established.
January 1: The railways in Britain are divided into four: Great Western Railway; London,
Midland and Scottish Railway; London North Eastern Railway; and Southern Railway.
January 9: The Swaraj party is founded in India.
January 9: Juan de la Cievra makes the first gyroplane flight in Spain.
January 10: The last US troops leave Germany.
January 11: Ruhr is occupied by French and Belgian troops to collect reparations.
January 13: An agreement is reached between the UK and the US, which staggers the
repayment of their war debt over 62 years.
January 23: A strike of taxi drivers begins in Amsterdam.
January 24: The Aztec Ruins National Monument is established in Mexico.
February
February 1: The formation of the Fascists Voluntary Militia.
February 2: A treaty is signed between the US and countries in Central America.
February 5: Communists and socialists are arrested in Italy.
February 8: 120 people are killed in an explosion at a coal mine in New Mexico.
February 10: Ink paste is manufactured for the first time.
February 16: The burial chamber of Tutankhamun is opened and the sarcophagus is found.
February 16: Theresa Weld Blanchard wins the US Ladies’ Figure Skating Championship.
February 16: Sherwin Badger wins the US Men’s Figure Skating Championship.
February 18: Mine workers strike in Belgium over wages.
February 23: The import duty on German products is lowered from 26% to 5% in Britain.
February 23: The Flying Scotsman begins its service.
February 24: Arrests of individuals linked to the mafia take place across the US.
February 25: The price of bread in Berlin rises to 2000 marks.
February 26: Fascists and nationalists merge in [Link] 28: King Gustaf V of
Swedish visits the Netherlands.
March
March 3: The first issue of Time magazine is published.
March 3: The US declines membership to the International Court of Justice.
March 4: The last article written by Lenin appears in Pravda.
March 5: Pension laws are introduced in Montana and Nevada.
March 9: The strike of taxi drivers in Amsterdam comes to an end.
March 13: Sound-on-film moving pictures are shown by Lee de Forest in New York City.
March 14: The NSDAP is prohibited by the German Supreme Court.
March 14: President Warren Harding is the first president to pay taxes.
March 15: Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke for the third time.
March 21: Charles Hughes, US foreign minister, refuses to recognise the USSR.
March 23: Sergeant Murphy wins the 82nd Grand National.
March 25: Trans-Jordan is granted autonomy by Britain.
March 31: 13 people are killed when French soldiers fire on workers at a factory in Essen.
April
April 7: The first operation on a brain tumour under local anesthetic is performed.
April 15: Insulin becomes widely available for the treatment of diabetes.
April 18: Central Lithuania is annexed by Poland.
April 19: A new law in Egypt allows men to vote, but not if they are soldiers.
April 24: A general harbour strike begins in New York City.
April 28: Wembley Stadium opens in Wembley, London.
May
May 1: Adolf Hitler, Ernst Rohm, and other Nazis try to break up May Day demonstrations.
May 4: Prohibition is revoked in New York.
May 7: A strike of miners begins in Belgian.
May 13: Willa Carter’s ‘One of Ours’ is awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
May 23: The first flight from Brussels to Lympne in Britain takes place.
May 24: Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
May 25: Britain formally recognises Adbullah as leader of Trans-Jordan.
May 26: The first 24 Hours of Le Mans takes place.
May 28: Women wearing trousers is legalised in the US.
May 30: Tommy Milton wins the Indianapolis 500.
May 31: The USSR and China exchange diplomats.
May 31: The South Africa Indian Congress is formed.
June
June 9: King Boris III and Premier Stamboeliski are overthrown in Bulgaria.
June 12: Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while hanging upside down.
June 14: ‘Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane’ is recorded.
June 14: The government falls in Belgium.
June 15: Arthur Havers wins the British Men’s Golf Open.
June 16: The Sun Yat Sen military academy is founded in China.
June 27: The first aerial refueling takes place.
June 28: Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of the Netherlands visit London.
July
July 3: Dock workers strike across Britain.
July 6: Suzanne Lenglen gains her fifth title at Wimbledon.
July 6: 17 people are killed and 28 are injured in a crash on the railway in New Zealand.
July 6: The Central Executive Committee accepts the Russian Empire becoming the
USSR.
July 7: Bill Johnston gains his only Wimbledon title.
July 7: A year abroad is introduced for students at the University of Delaware.
July 8: President Warren Harding visits Alaska.
July 10: 23 people are killed by large hailstones in Russia.
July 10: All political parties in Italy that are not fascist are dissolved.
July 11: Harry Frazee sells the Red Sox for one million dollars.
July 13: The Hollywood Sign is dedicated, reading Hollywoodland at this time.
July 13: Roy Chapman Andrews is the first to discover dinosaur eggs.
July 15: Bobby Jones wins the US Men’s Golf Open.
July 15: The new constitution is accepted by the parliament in Italy.
July 18: A new divorce law is accepted by the House of Lords in Britain.
July 22: Henri Pelissier wins the 17th Tour de France.
July 24: A peace treaty is signed by the Allies and Turkey.
July 25: The German Mark devalues further: 600,000 Marks are equal to one dollar.
August
August 3: Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the US after the death of Warren Harding.
August 6: Henry Sullivan becomes the first American and the third person ever to swim the
English Channel.
August 6: Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor and Foreign Minister in Germany.
August 11: The Premier of the Netherlands resigns.
August 12: Enrico Tiraboschi becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
westward.
August 13: Gustav Stresemann becomes Premier in Germany.
August 13: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja becomes President of the Republic of Turkey.
August 13: The US Steel Corp enforces an eight hour work day.
August 15: Eamon de Valera is arrested in the Irish Free State.
August 15: An accord is reached between the US and Mexico regarding oil.
August 18: Helen Wills Moody wins the US National Women’s Tennis Championship.
August 18: Margaret Molesworth wins the Australasian Women’s Tennis Championship.
August 18: Pat O’Hara Wood wins the Australasian Men’s Tennis Championship.
August 20: The strike of dock workers in London comes to an end.
August 23: Paavo Nurmi sets the world record for running one mile.
August 24: Paavo Nurmi sets the world record for running three miles.
August 31: The mandate of Ruanda-Urundi is given to Belgium by the League of Nations.
August 31: Corfu is occupied by Italian troops.
August 31: Mussolini demands an apology from the Greek government for the death of an
Italian general and his staff on their border.
September
September 1: 142,000 people are killed by an earthquake in Japan.
September 2: Bill Johnson wins the International Lawn Tennis Challenge.
September 4: The first US airship makes its first flight.
September 6: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee.
September 7: Interpol is formed.
September 7: Mary Katherine Campbell is crowned Miss America.
September 8: Six Us Navy destroyers are lost in the Honda Point Disaster.
September 9: Albin Stenroos sets the world record for running twenty kilometres.
September 10: The Irish Free State joins the League of Nations.
September 12: Southern Rhodesia is taken over by Britain.
September 13: A coup takes place in Spain.
September 14: Miguel Primo de River takes control of Spain.
September 15: A State of Siege is declared in Oklahoma because of the Ku Klux Klan.
September 15: Bill Tilden wins the US National Men’s Tennis Championship.
September 23: A demonstration of 80,000 people takes place in Amsterdam over the Fleet
law.
September 26: The Commonwealth Conference takes place in London.
September 27: Italian troops leave Corfu.
September 28: Abyssinia leaves the League of Nations.
September 28: The Radio Times is published for the first time.
October
October 2: The British army leaves Constantinople.
October 5: Edward Hubble identifies the Cepheid star.
October 6: An experimental calendar is adopted by the USSR.
October 11: German Mark devalues further: four billion Marks are equal to one dollar.
October 16: The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio is founded.
October 16: The self-winding watch is patented by John Harwood.
October 21: The first planetarium opens in Munich.
October 25: The first report on the Teapot Dome scandal is published by the US Senate.
October 26: The Fleet laws are rejected by the second Chamber in the Netherlands.
October 26: The government resigns in the Netherlands.
October 29: Textile workers strike in the Netherlands.
October 29: Turkey declares independence and celebrates the first Republic Day of
Turkey.
November
November 2: Ministers under Gustav Stresemann step down.
November 6: Five day weeks are adopted in the USSR.
November 8: The Beer Hall Putsch begins in Munich.
November 9: 16 people die on the second day of the Beer Hall Putsch and Hitler flees.
November 11: The eternal flame for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is lit under the Arc
de Triomphe.
November 12: Hitler is arrested for attempting to seize power.
November 12: Dr Hjalmar Schacht is tasked with dealing with Germany’s currency
problem.
November 14: Kentaro Suzuki reaches the summit of Mount Lizuna.
November 20: Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design.
November 20: The Rentenmark becomes the new official currency in Germany.
November 22: Lothar Witzke is pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge.
November 23: The government of Germany under Gustav Stresemann falls.
November 29: The Dawes Commission is set up to discuss the economic situation in
Germany and how it relates to reparations owed to the US.
November 30: Wilhelm Marx leads a minority government in the Netherlands.
December
December 6: One of the landmark 1923 events, the presidential address is broadcast on
the radio for the first time in the US.
December 8: A friendship treaty is signed between the US and Germany.
December 8: A coalition between the Labour and Liberal party wins in Britain.
December 8: A price and salary freeze comes into force in Germany.
December 16: The Canton Bulldogs win the National Football League Championship.
December 17: King George II is overthrown in Greece.
December 18: The international zone of Tangier is established in Morocco.
December 21: Nepal gains independence.
December 31: The first transatlantic radio broadcast takes place.
Now, how would you actually find out?
Celestials exist. Black and White photography. Letters to different
people. Archeology, etc.
If you wanted to learn about a certain time in the past, would you rather read a book,
visit a museum, watch a documentary, or explore an old architectural site?
I would rather explore an old architectural site, as I love exploring
and learning about our past rather than reading it from a book or
watching a documentary,
Should we ask our parents or grandparents, or other older people in our lives, to tell us
what the world was like when they were growing up? If so, can we trust them to
remember things accurately, or to share them honestly?
Yes, because they have more experience and knowledge about
what the world is and how it functions. There is nothing to hide in
our past, so it will be honest. Even if the information they tell us is
not accurate, it will be somewhat true, because it is not in the
nature of elders to lie about something which is important such as
our past, because our future relies on our past.
What would you ask someone who was alive a thousand years ago, if they popped out
of a very high-tech time capsule? Of everyone who was alive in the world back then,
who would you want to talk to?
I would like to know what the world was like a thousand years
ago, thus I would ask how it was back then, also I would ask how
he actually made the time capsule with no technology back then.
I would personally kill to meet the Viking rulers, such as eric the
red, ragnar lothbrok, etc.
Does it matter how the world came to be what it is, or should we focus on what it has
become—and what we want it to be? In other words, is reconstructing the past a good
use of time when we could instead be inventing the future?
Yes, understanding our past plays a vital role in portraying our
future. The construction of the past allows us to understand the
hardwork of our ancestors and how we can continue to carry forth
their legacy.
Is there a difference between remembering the past and reconstructing it?
Yes, there is a difference between remembering the past and
reconstructing it. Remembering the past refers to the act of
recalling or retrieving previously experienced events, information,
or emotions from one's memory. On the other hand,
reconstructing the past involves piecing together fragments of
memories or information to form a coherent narrative or
understanding of what happened.
The phrase "there's no time like the present" is usually meant as an antidote to
procrastination. Do something now, not later. Finish this outline today, not in 2024.
Taking it more literally, however: is the present really a unique point in history? If so,
does it make it harder for us to understand what the past was like?
When taken literally, the present can be seen as a unique point in
history because it represents the current state of affairs,
encompassing collective knowledge, experiences, and
developments up until that point. However, it's important to note
that the present is a fleeting concept that is constantly evolving
and transforming into the past. As time progresses, what has
once been considered the present becomes part of history.
Understanding the past can be challenging, particularly the
further back in time we go. The present offers a perspective
shaped by our contemporary knowledge, technology, and cultural
context. It can be difficult to fully grasp the experiences, beliefs,
and nuances of past societies, which may differ significantly from
our own.
"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it" is a phrase many people
repeat, but is it possible that those who do study history are doomed to absorb the
worst things about it? Would it be better if we could scrub history clean and start over
again with no memories of what came before us?
"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it" is a
cautionary statement highlighting the importance of learning from
past mistakes and experiences. By understanding historical
events, we can gain insights into patterns, causes, and
consequences, which can help us make informed decisions and
avoid repeating the same errors. History is something that links
us to our culture and heritage, thus scrubbing it out and starting
over is not an appropriate measure, because there is still a
chance of bad things happening.
Has the pandemic forced a healthy reimagining of past practices, like attending school
and working at a real office, or should we go back to the way things were?
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had a profound impact
on various aspects of our lives, including how we work and
educate ourselves. It has forced many individuals and institutions
to adapt to new circumstances and explore alternative ways of
operating. While there have been challenges and disruptions, the
pandemic has also sparked conversations about the potential
benefits and drawbacks of certain practices.
The director Spike Jonze is credited with saying that "the past is just a story we tell
ourselves." Is it? If so, could reconstructions of the past help us agree on what the story
is—or will different people reconstruct different pasts?
The quote by Spike Jonze, "the past is just a story we tell
ourselves," captures a thought-provoking perspective on how we
interpret and understand the past. It suggests that our
understanding of history is shaped by subjective narratives and
interpretations rather than an objective, fixed reality. While
historical events and facts exist, the way we interpret and
construct the narrative of the past can vary among individuals
and communities.