Ken Burns, will you be a history professor here? (And can I take your class?)

In a word:

Wonderful.

He's highly eloquent and succinct, and instead of speaking with a double cadence like the rest of us mere mortals, his is almost triple, so his sentences roll right into each other.

His thesis of the night?

If history is remembering, then war is forgetting.

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Mimarlık

We've been talking about Islamic architecture in my architecture history class, and all of the photos are reminding me of Sultanahmet Camii.

I don't want to go back to study, but I really want to go back to the architectural wonders of the world (really, they are).

m.

Also, last night I got last-minute tickets to go see Ken Burns speak tonight.  It's been sold out for weeks...and I got my hot little (yes, they actually are pretty small) hands on one!