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How many of you heard about Wojtek The Bear?
A hired assassin in 16th century Sweden
Those sneaky Poles! ;)
(On a nitpicking note - the article describes the duchy of the future Karl IX as small. I'm not sure, but as duchies goes I'd say that one the size of about 1/2 of Scotland is quite big.)
A hired assassin in 16th century SwedenThose sneaky Poles! ;)
That was Italian hired by Swede!
And he failed to earn his pay anyway!
Also, why couldn't we just get Gustav instead of Sigi?
A hired assassin in 16th century SwedenThose sneaky Poles! ;)That was Italian hired by Swede!
And he failed to earn his pay anyway!
Also, why couldn't we just get Gustav instead of Sigi?
Cause Sigi's mother married the wrong brother. ;)
Yeah. What wondrous power that union could be...
London Review of Books on Nelson Mandela
Communist Party of Great Britain on Amadeo Bordiga
Wikipedia on Roman Rosdolsky whose monograph on Engels, the Neue Rhenische Zeitung (sp?) and 1848 I am currently reading.
For Historiography Nerds
The populism article was a good one, thanks.
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I got you hooked on that site, too, eh?
Vive le Dangerous Minds!
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Catherine the Great's dirty furniture collection. NFSW, obvs.
Y'know, for years now I'd been sniggering at the Victorians for feeling a need to invent piano skirts to hide the piano's sexually alluring curvy legs (seriously, it was a thing), but once I saw that table, I got it.
Man, that's another perfectly good myth shot down.
It even has the Ruskin and pubic hair thing, which I only learned recently wasn't true.
F!&!in' internet.
Y'know, for years now I'd been sniggering at the Victorians for feeling a need to invent piano skirts to hide the piano's sexually alluring curvy legs (seriously, it was a thing)Maybe you might want to google that.
I said Victorians, which applies to the era; I never tried to deny that whole situation might be the fault of Uptight Colonials, rather than Englishmen.
Not only that, but if I'm reading the whole article correctly, the whole thing is unsubstantiated bullshiznit, based on one and one guy only's account that was replayed in Britishiznoid magazines to laugh at the silly colonials.
:(
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In 1811, a guy named John Joseph Merlin suggested a design for a self-propelled steam engine wheel chair. In an addendum he included notes on how to mount a small cannon to the contraption.
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Also, thanks to Comrade Van Der Kroft,
Someway, somehow, I didn't even notice that the above article was written by Noel Ignatiev, whose name has been brought up so often (by moi) in relation to white skin privilege theory.
[Facepalm]
...I'm certain the heavy duty ones, like the one Steven Hawking sports when not in his robot exoskeleton, likely have this option.
Now this is something I would pay to see. There is just something incredibly fitting imagining Stephen Hawking tooling around in his own personalized mecha, with cannons, lasers, and who knows what else fitted on.
Lots and lots about Eugene D. Genovese.
Interesting article. Though I skimmed the Genovese focused parts and got the most out of the section between sleep deprivation and utopia.
Yeah, it's pretty dense. On my third try and still haven't finished it.
Yeah, it's pretty dense. On my third try and still haven't finished it.
I read every word. :) Made me want to slap Genovese again. In Freehling's Road to Disunion endnotes he takes a cordial swipe or two himself, while also conceding that his work ignores the breakup of the national churches and thanking Genovese for pointing it out. There's also a line where he says something about thinking he and Genovese reached some kind of mutual understanding in an exchange of papers. I haven't read the papers, but the note has a kind of "I'm so sick of dealing with this guy" whiff about it.
Sadly River of Dark Dreams only came out this last year and so I don't know what Freehling would has had to say about it. His account of the master-slave relationship scans much more like Johnson's work than Genovese's.
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The current flag of South Africa was designed in the clubhouse of the Swedish football-, boxing-, and volleyball club Proletärens FF (from Gothenburg).
Indeed it is.
The Great Bummer of Russia and the Reign of False Dmitry the First.
I recommend reading every article by Wojtek Góralczyk in the storyteller archive on the site. The man is an incredibly good and hilarious writer. The other authors aren't bad, either. The language used is often NSFW, though.
This link was really entertaining.
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Found some badass chicks in a book about pirates, Under the Black Flag, one whom might not be real.
Madame Cheng
Granny O'Malley, the Sea Queen of Connaught
Princess Awilda
All that said, Gráinne Mhaol is one of the most badass women in Irish history! Glad she's getting some appreciation!
Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile, óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda,
Gaeil iad féin is ní Gaill ná Spáinnigh, is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh.
All that said, Gráinne Mhaol is one of the most badass women in Irish history! Glad she's getting some appreciation!Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile, óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda,
Gaeil iad féin is ní Gaill ná Spáinnigh, is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh.
Addendum: my friend's sister is named after Gráinne Mhaol.
'S true. I made up "Granny O'Malley." I liked it better.
But I was caught, alas. Down the memory hole with you, Granny!
Hundredth anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre
Other crappy anniversaries some pretty close, some not so much:
I somehow missed the death of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Don't have a cool link handy, and, alas, Bob Dylan's estate watches youtube pretty closely, but nonetheless,
[Clenched fist salute]
Hee hee!
Well, if you think he lacked charisma, you should see this ex-Occupy NH dude they hired.
I remember one time, he was arguing with a libertarian and Mark shouted "I will eviscerate you with my analysis!"
Hee hee!