History

Interesting site where you can explore snippets of history around the world.

In Hitler’s eyes, the time had come to settle the struggle between the right and the left once and for all.

We must first gain complete power if we want to crush the other side completely.” Hitler argued that, in supporting his rise as führer, the moguls would in effect be supporting themselves, their firms, and their fortunes. “

Near the end of his speech, Hitler laid out how that would happen. In only two weeks, on March 5, the people of Germany would determine the country’s future by casting their votes in the national election—“the last election,” according to Hitler. One way or another, democracy would fall.

Germany’s new chancellor intended to dissolve it entirely and replace it with a dictatorship. “Regardless of the outcome,” he warned, “there would be no retreat.

The court of unstable French king Charles VI devised elaborate entertainment to keep him amused. One was the dance of the wood savages, in which the king himself participated. The highly flamable costumes caught fire and killed the courtier and almost killed the king.

This is prompted by a post over on "Comic Strips@lemmy.world" about what Photographic Memory was called prior to the invention of photographs.

Looking into it, it seems that perhaps it was not notable until recently.

Photographic Memory, Eidetic Memory, Total Recall, and Hyperthymesia are all currently used for the ability, though often with different connotations.

Does anyone know of ancient writing on the subject?

I am discounting the trained memorization of bards and storytellers of old, which I understand typically used memorization and not "Total Recall". Please let me know if I am incorrect.

The Wikipedia pages on Eidetic Memory and Hyperthymesia cover different aspects, but neither cites anything older than “Funes the Memorious”. Funes the Memorious was written after the camera was invented. “Total Recall” is also used for the ability, but also does not appear to have a long history.

Unrelated but fun: ‘Photographic Memory’ The story of how we stored digital photographs

2 km from the Giza complex, it extends over a total area of 500,000 sq.metters with an estimated total of over 100,000 artifacts. Website: https://gem.eg/