[Fedora]

Yeah, I like the fedoras in old movies, too :) I like film noir, Bogart, that type of thing. I'm also interested in medieval and 19th century history like you are. My history supervisor specialized in European Intellectual history and his class on the 19th-century roots of WWI and WWII was very informative. What aspects of medieval and 19th-century history are you interested in?

[Sam Cree]

Victorian especially, it has so many fascinating contrasts, the industrial age/ the birth of Marxism, the Wild West/ polite Victorian society, Impressionism/ the academics/ the Realists, etc. Plus, I have noticed that the Victorian ideal of feminine beauty is not much different from our own. Oh yeah, Victorian architecture is cool.

And I've read all those Patrick O'Brian books, which are set in the early 19th.

As for medieval, I'm not sure, the primitive weaponry is fascinating of course. Just the pure distance of those times from ours makes them fascinating.