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Post by zztop11 on Jan 9, 2016 1:21:37 GMT
Fluff Post: I was just sending my brother in law a link about a Paul Simon exhibit that's in town for another couple of weeks. I saw it and it's really neat to see the yellow legal pads that have some of the original lyrics to their famous songs written on them. Started to get goose bumps. That got me thinking about famous things that I have seen. Probably one that is a highlight of my life was seeing the next to the last space shuttle launch. I'm 62, so I grew up watching them on little black/white t.v. in school. The day of the launch was so exciting at school. We would carry our chairs into the gym and hundreds of kids would sit quietly and watch the t.v. So I definitely get goose bumps thinking about the launch that I saw. As I said, it's been one of the highlights of my life. What famous thing (can be event or an item) have you seen that gives you goose bumps thinking about it?
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Post by chendra on Jan 9, 2016 1:24:29 GMT
The Statue of Liberty. I imagined how people felt as their ship sailed into the harbor and they saw it for the first time.
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Post by elaine on Jan 9, 2016 1:27:02 GMT
I spent an evening in the White House a little over a year ago. All the rooms were open to us. There was food and drink and live music. I spent at least 30 minutes eating and drinking on a sofa in the Green Room sitting next to a 4 star General in the Air Force and her friend who was talking about John Adams' sterling silver tea service set on the coffee table in front of us.
I get goosebumps thinking about it and will remember it for the rest of my life.
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Post by quiltz on Jan 9, 2016 1:40:08 GMT
Being at an event with Commander Chris Hadfield, and hearing first hand about his experiences on the International Space Station. As I was part of the organizing committee, I have a picture of us with Mr. Hadfield.
The library at the Benedctine (?) Monastery in Melk, Austria. it is huge and it is a working library. Goosebumps to know that there are so many first edition books in one place. |
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Post by gorgeouskid on Jan 9, 2016 1:41:47 GMT
Oh, just about every famous thing I've seen...
The Space Shuttle on its final approach over my school (I actually cried)
Eiffel Tower
Lincoln Memorial (and most of Washington DC)
Getty Villa (every time I visit)
Most of the stars on the walk of fame in Hollywood
Statue of Liberty
Queen Elizabeth I's tomb
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Post by pjaye on Jan 9, 2016 1:42:45 GMT
For me it's always art.
To see a Rembrandt, a Michelangelo or a Monet in real life always makes me emotional. While I'm looking at it I can't help but thinking that the artist himself once stood in front of it too and touched that canvas and applied the paint. To know that I am looking at the exact same thing that they once looked at too is what gives me goosebumps.
I always take a few deep breaths and imagine that maybe I just inhaled one atom of the artist!
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Post by leftturnonly on Jan 9, 2016 1:44:05 GMT
Being up close and personal with an art exhibit of Impressionist masters. You could get unbelievably close, and I accidentally touched one that was hanging in a space you could walk around!
O. M. G. !
It was a.m.a.z.i.n.g.!
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Post by mirabelleswalker on Jan 9, 2016 1:53:56 GMT
Vermeer's "Girl With A Pearl Earring."
Gustavo Dudamel conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra. The hair on my arms literally stood on end. My niece's, too! We turned to show each other.
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Post by elaine on Jan 9, 2016 1:54:02 GMT
For me it's always art. To see a Rembrandt, a Michelangelo or a Monet in real life always makes me emotional. While I'm looking at it I can't help but thinking that the artist himself once stood in front of it too and touched that canvas and applied the paint. To know that I am looking at the exact same thing that they once looked at too is what gives me goosebumps. I always take a few deep breaths and imagine that maybe I just inhaled one atom of the artist! For me it is seeing a Van Gogh in person. His paintings are truly 3D will all that texture of how he applied paint. They are so much more in person than prints of them. |
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Post by melanell on Jan 9, 2016 1:58:58 GMT
The Statue of Liberty was my first thought.
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Post by pjaye on Jan 9, 2016 1:59:43 GMT
For me it is seeing a Van Gogh in person. His paintings are truly 3D will all that texture of how he applied paint. They are so much more in person than prints of them. Very true and many of them are so much bigger in real life than you first think, and the colors are totally different to books and prints too. I've also often been surprised at which ones capture my attention most in real life vs in print. |
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jan 9, 2016 2:07:19 GMT
Being up close and personal with an art exhibit of Impressionist masters. You could get unbelievably close, and I accidentally touched one that was hanging in a space you could walk around! O. M. G. ! It was a.m.a.z.i.n.g.! I was working at Philbrook Museum of Art when they hosted The French Masters exhibit in 2000. I got to see so much behind the scenes. Unpacking and placing the pieces. I got to inspect them up close. Monet, Picasso, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Manet, Seurat, and other artists. It was amazing!! Seeing Van Goghs brush strokes within inches, seeing the dimension of paint that he himself placed. Just chills!! |
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Post by leftturnonly on Jan 9, 2016 2:10:06 GMT
Being up close and personal with an art exhibit of Impressionist masters. You could get unbelievably close, and I accidentally touched one that was hanging in a space you could walk around! O. M. G. ! It was a.m.a.z.i.n.g.! I was working at Philbrook Museum of Art when they hosted The French Masters exhibit in 2000. I got to see so much behind the scenes. Unpacking and placing the pieces. I got to inspect them up close. Monet, Van Gogh, Manet, Seurat, and a dozen other artists. It was amazing!! Seeing Van Goghs brush strokes within inches, seeing the dimension of paint that he himself placed. Just chills!! Get up close and look..... walk across the room and look again..... get up close and look again.... walk back across the room..... walk sideways in front of the paintings to watch how the light changes as you move...... Yep. |
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Post by Goldynn on Jan 9, 2016 2:12:54 GMT
Santorini, Greece. Specifically Oia (pronounced Ee-uh), which is this:
I love it there so much!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 2:15:11 GMT
Little Bighorn Battlefield. We were there on a day that there was LITERALLY no one else there. It was about to snow and the entire battlefield was filled with a ground fog. It felt ghostly and hallowed.
Now that I think about it, that was a weird trip because we were also the only people at Mt. Rushmore.
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Post by Frazzled Mom on Jan 9, 2016 2:15:43 GMT
It sounds sappy, but quite a few American historical icons that I've taken my kids to see have made me tear up or get goose bumps: the Statue of Liberty, The Declaration of Independence, The Liberty Bell, etc. My biggest reaction had to be at Mt. Vernon when I was there chaperoning DS's 8th grade trip. To touch the very same hand railings that George Washington and his compatriots used when they ascended the stairways actually stopped me in my tracks. I called my group back to make sure they realized what an amazing experience they were taking for granted. A couple of the boys thought I was weird, but a few others "got it".  During the same trip, while spending time at The Holocaust Museum, it was the Room of Shoes. It wasn't goosebumps so much as a physical reaction from the sight and smell. And I wasn't the only one from our group who felt it. |
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jan 9, 2016 2:16:18 GMT
Actual, literal, goosebumps? I get them from beautiful classical music, specifically string instruments.
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Post by christine58 on Jan 9, 2016 2:17:55 GMT
Ground Zero two months after 9/11. Cried...all day
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Post by rickmer on Jan 9, 2016 2:20:16 GMT
i got that goosebumps kinda feeling at notre dame. i met my friend mark in paris - i was exhausted from my flight over (xanax hangover, i am afraid of flying), we got settled in our hotel and went out for a beautiful dinner with (lots of) amazing wine. we headed over to notre dame on our way back to the marais where we were staying. inside notre dame was an exhibit of medieval art projected onto giant fabric screens and gregorian chant-y kind of music.... i realized i was standing where so many had stood over hundreds of years, marriages, funerals, baptisms... a place full of history and so much of it very emotional times in someone's life, if that makes sense.
mark was *such* great guide and explained the architecture, history and little tidbits about the cathedral... he said his favourite part* of our trip to paris and amsterdam was my reaction to notre dame.
*his least favourite part, as he has shared *several* times with me, is my small breakdown at anne frank house in amsterdam. i thought i knew what to expect but when i saw the diary, with that round, little girl handwriting... well, i had a moment. there was an interactive exhibit downstairs about free speech and mark was right in there, participating his little heart out. he looked over at me, paused, and graciously led me out on a canal boat for a chat, some sightseeing and a wee distraction, i'm sure.
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Post by basketdiva on Jan 9, 2016 2:29:00 GMT
The Arizona Memorial
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Post by stittsygirl on Jan 9, 2016 2:29:47 GMT
Neuschwanstein castle. I took German in seventh grade, and there was a picture of Neuschwanstein on the front of my textbook. I knew I always wanted to go there, but it would be another 18 years before I got the chance. I had serious chills when I first saw it and as we drove towards it. That's a good memory  . |
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Post by myshelly on Jan 9, 2016 2:31:13 GMT
When I was in junior high we studied the Holocaust very in depth. There was a survivor who was very involved in volunteering at our school. He gave talks to small groups so that there was time to ask questions and really interact with him.
At the end of the unit he was the guide for our field trip to the Holocaust Museum. At this museum the entrance to the exhibits was an actual German train car that was used to transport prisoners to Auschwitz.
About 100 of us crammed into this train car with him and then they shut the doors and then it started to move (it just vibrated in place). It was SO real and so disturbing.
A few years later when I was in high school I went to Europe and went to several concentration camps. I can't explain the sensation. It's like you can just feel what happened there. Like it has been absorbed into the very ground.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 9, 2016 2:31:45 GMT
The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jan 9, 2016 2:36:30 GMT
Little Bighorn Battlefield. We were there on a day that there was LITERALLY no one else there. It was about to snow and the entire battlefield was filled with a ground fog. It felt ghostly and hallowed. Now that I think about it, that was a weird trip because we were also the only people at Mt. Rushmore. My kids and I arrived in Gettysburg right about sundown. We found a room very near the battlefield, which was still, quiet and slowly filling with ground fog. Ghostly and hallowed are excellent adjectives for the way it felt.  I stood just across the street a couple of blocks down from the Murrah building in Oklahoma City soon after the bombing. They were just ceasing the search for victims and I had a clear view. It was daylight with no fog and there were plenty of other people around, but it had a very similar feel. It's quite profound. |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jan 9, 2016 2:36:33 GMT
I have very emotional, visceral reactions to a lot of things like many mentioned in this thread. And now with two sons in the Navy, I get very teary at any military display.
I have very vivid memories as a child of watching several of the Apollo space launches go off. We lived in Cocoa, Florida on one of the very few hills (just a rise in the elevation really) in the area. We would watch the launch on the TV in the living room and as soon as it cleared the tower - you could see the launch structure falling away from it - we would run to front yard and actually see it rising over the tree line and lifting into the atmosphere. Even as a child, it gave me goosebumps.
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Post by scrappysurfer on Jan 9, 2016 2:40:31 GMT
Seeing Starry Night at MOMA years ago. I didn't realize how small it was, but it still left a big impact.
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Post by myshelly on Jan 9, 2016 2:41:21 GMT
The USS Arizona Memorial, definitely.
We were at Ground Zero a couple of months after 9/11. Watching the construction crews sift through the rubble was heartbreaking.
On the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 I happened to be driving past my town's 9/11 Memorial, which is two steel beams from the towers standing up to look like the towers with an eternal flame, and our towns firefighters were there on bended knee. It literally took my breath away.
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Post by Woobster on Jan 9, 2016 2:44:02 GMT
The changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery. It's one of those things that just sticks with you.
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Post by sillyrabbit on Jan 9, 2016 2:47:09 GMT
Like Frazzled Mom, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell were my goosebump places. I visited the Flight 93 crash site before the actual memorial was built...that was one of the most emotional experiences of my life.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jan 9, 2016 2:49:22 GMT
The American Cemetery at Normandy.
"The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel. It covers 172 acres, and contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy."
I cannot begin to describe the feeling that washed over me as I stood in that cemetery and looked over the bluff to the landing beaches. God what brave men. Just thinking about it moves me to this day.
On that same trip I walked in Paris, saw amazing awe inspiring places: Notre Dame Cathedral, Eiffel Tower, Luxembourg Gardens. Arc de Triomphe. River Seine. Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre (Sacre-Coeur). Arc de Triomphe. Many Châteaux of the Loire Valley. But, Normandy I found left the biggest impression on me.
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