So What?

History is constantly happening all around us.  Time marches on, new challenges appear and fade, the world changes.  History is like a TV show that always gets renewed for another season (like a soap opera) but never goes off the air or stops for commercial breaks (thankfully, not like soap operas).

But just like those soap operas, sometimes the writers get lazy.  The new season is going along just fine, and then that one character gets thrown in jail... just like the 8 other times that character has already been thrown in jail in earlier seasons.  Yeah, the circumstances were a little different -- it was the daughter-in-law who caused it this time, not the wife -- but it's pretty much the same story.  It all happened before, and you know it's going to happen again.

But what if the characters actually learned from their past experiences?  You know, like what happens everyday in real life.  Now, history stops playing like a soap and more like a well-written TV show with actual plots.  What happened in the past seasons directly and indirectly affects the current season.

That's where I come in.  I'm going to try to identify which past episodes historical events are affecting modern events, and how.  And sometimes I might just throw some interesting history your way.