I don't remember saying it was actually a part of the U.S.S.R. I think they were oddly placed for their status. It references them being within a month's marching of the Czar/Tzar's Castle.
Goblin Autonomous Oblast... Aronia*?
*Aronia: The name of a small "suburb" of Stalingrad that was Semi-Autonomous do to it being a major Slums. It was heavily damaged during the Siege. It was apparently added into a manufacturing district. Not that it was large enough for more than 1 or 2 smaller factories.
I don't remember saying it was actually a part of the U.S.S.R. I think they were oddly placed for their status. It references them being within a month's marching of the Czar/Tzar's Castle.
Goblin Autonomous Oblast... Aronia*?
*Aronia: The name of a small "suburb" of Stalingrad that was Semi-Autonomous do to it being a major Slums. It was heavily damaged during the Siege. It was apparently added into a manufacturing district. Not that it was large enough for more than 1 or 2 smaller factories.
I think it was once called an Autonomous Soviet City State.
Note that the Soviet Union did not give autonomous status to individual cities, and the title Autonomous Soviet City State you mention was never used. There were also no Semi-Autonomous territories of any kind. The USSR was strictly divided into either Soviet Republics, Autonomous Republics, Oblasts, Autonomous Oblasts and Autonomous Okrugs. The only special status given to some cities was that of a "Closure", and this was specifically used for certain settlements the USSR wanted to keep classified. They were not given any form of autonomy. Also, they were all within USSR territory.
Furthermore, if it was ever linked to the USSR as you mention, it would have been within territorial control of the Soviets; the USSR had no overseas territories of any kind. It had influences on foreign countrie, such as Cuba, but they were not part of the Union.
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Man, I never thought I'd say it, but even I am getting bored with talking about (imaginary?) parts of the Soviet bloc.
George Harrison, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Helen Keller, Plagiarism and Memory
Don't know if it's really about history, but it was a good read.
Did you know that there was a composer named Samuel Coleridge Taylor? As a (for a while) music/English double-major, it was all I could do to keep the names straight.
Incidentally, the composer's family name was Taylor and his father was a fan of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, so he named his son Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
The nation is North of Germany I can say that much for certain. It probably would be closer to an Unrecognized Territory. I think it was once called an Autonomous Soviet City State. Finally AFAIK it is still around.
Uh? North of Germany but bordering former USSR? It would be possible only for very generous definitions of north...
The nation is North of Germany I can say that much for certain. It probably would be closer to an Unrecognized Territory. I think it was once called an Autonomous Soviet City State. Finally AFAIK it is still around.Uh? North of Germany but bordering former USSR? It would be possible only for very generous definitions of north...
Would Freetown Christiana fit the bill? I can see the Tsar's troops reaching it in 20 days march, if they could hold their breath that long. :P
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Horrible Histories - Literally: The Viking Song .
Curse You!
Aronia was considered Semi-Autonomous because the Authorities avoided it as much as possible. And I never said it was called an Autonomous Soviet City-State by the Soviets. From what I can tell it was the term used for it by a American Journalist.
Okay I just had another stroke of genius. Draw the Cyrillic characters with Paint or something then upload it to the internet.
What is a good Picture Upload Site?
Flickr.
I use Photobucket but the latest changes they've made to their layout are making it annoying.
Imgur is decent, though I've never used it myself so I don't know what the user layout is like.
I'm trying to draw it using my Graphic Tablet but I can't figure out how to get the Characters to come out at lest somewhat close to the original.
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I can't believe this is still going on...
Citizen Fayth, here is the Cyrillic alphabet.
If A is 1 and you go down the first column, and then over to the second column and continue to number down until you get to the backwards R as 33, write out this place's name in numeric code.
Digging up scandalous nuns' past.
Scandalous nuns are hawt!!
Should we keep the Vikings’ stolen goods?.
Possession is 9/10th of ownership. Or something.
It has all but 2...
But it is pronounced: Am-ear-ree-us when translated...
Intriguing... Orthos/Azaelas, none of my business particularly, but both those posts interest me a great deal for entirely different reasons. Would be good to know more, but this may not be the thread for it.
Meanwhile, There's an exhibition of Ice Age art at the British Museum at the moment
Sayyeda Zeinab: the 7th Century Heroine of Karbala
Also, Heroes of Revolutionary Socialism
Toussaint L'Overture: Slave, Revolutionary, General
Also, also, very Vive le Galt!ish article here. You can only read the first bit on the internet, alas, but here's my favorite part:
Wiser heads among the nobles understood this. Even the conservative and pro-monarchist Count Sergei Sheremetev had described their dilemma well before the revolution started. "A decisive turning point is approaching. Where does Russia's future lie, where are the current masters taking her?" Not long afterward and before the revolution was over, the liberal mayor of Moscow, Vladimir Golitsyn, noted in his diary, "One cannot help, but see that we...are paying for the sins of our forefathers, and particularly for the institution of serfdom with all its horrors and perversions..." In another entry, after witnessing the savagery unleashed by the revolution, he asked, "Who is to blame that the Russian people, the peasant and the proletarian, proved to be barbarians? Who, of not all of us?" Who is to blame? What is to be done? These were the "accursed questions" that had haunted Russian intellectuals throughout the nineteenth century, and the answers, when they came, proved devastating.
Our day will come, Dicey!
Time Team Special 27 (2006) - The Big Roman Villa (Dinnington, Somerset) .
One of my favorite shows sadly it has been axed.
This I had to see for myself.......
This made mai night! Thank you!
1848: The Springtime of Nations
So, if you were 30 years old in 1848, you might be forgiven for believing in the coming international proletarian socialist revolution.
Anyway, I am reading an awesome book by one Priscilla Robertson entitled Revolutions of 1848: A Social History and it's chalk full of awesome stuff. Some small samples:
"The national guard ought to have been Louis Phillippe's most loyal defender, for its establishment was one of the triumphs of the July days of 1830. The right of citizens to bear arms was one of the most insistent liberal demands thoughout this period, and when Louis Phillippe was willing to grant it, this seemed proof that his new monarchy would have a force to guard its constitution. Since 1830 the guard had always responded to the call of monarchy in trouble, and it enjoyed the exclusive privilege of service at the Tuileries and attendance on the King's carriage. Eligibility was on a somewhat broader basis than suffrage, for any man between 20 and 60 who paid a property tax could join. Each citizen supplied his own uniform, though this was theoretically optional, and the cavalry their horses as well, so there was a good measure of snob appeal in belonging. In spite of these attractions, by 1848, plenty of members were thoroughly bored with guard service. There is tale that Balzac, a few years previously, neglected his duties so determinedly that officers hunted all over Paris to find him, and finally snagged him by pretending to deliver a handsome Italian vase to his suspected hiding place. When he signed for the parcel, they ran in and dragged him off to prison for a week. Something similar befell Dumas."
"The first of such interruptions [of the new government] was perhaps the most unwelcome to the seven men in conference. It consisted of Louis Blanc, borne on the shoulders of some workers or he could never have forced his small frame through the crowd, together with Ferdinand Flocon (no English page on wikipedia!), editor of the Reforme, announcing that they were also members of the provisional government, chosen by the meeting at the Reforme and consecrated by the people just like the seven gentlemen already sitting.
'Consecration' of the new rulers was accomplished by the roar of the people's applause as each of them presented himself to the crowd at the Hotel de Ville and explained his principles. Each of the first group had done this, and now the newcomers also; and it was true that in this probation the new ones were as popular as the others, probably more so. It would be dangerous if not impossible to exclude these radicals after they had been endorsed by the crowd, yet the original conservative seven felt reluctant to admit them. Then the practical Garnier-Pages thought of a formula: let them be 'secretaries' to the new government, secretaries with consultative voices. This seemed to make Lamartine and his colleagues happier; the new arrivals agreed, but said they must include also the name of Albert, a workingman. For it had been decided at the Reforme meeting that a worker should by all means have his name in the new government, and Albert was proposed though he was not present. Now Louis Blanc had explained about him to the crowd and they had consecrated him in absenstia. Although the new cabinet accepted a working-class member, no one ever bothered to call him anything but Albert, which was his given name (his surname was Martin)--a beautiful example of nineteenth century class feeling, and possibly one reason why Albert said he felt patronized and soon wanted to retire."
"The actual comfort of living in Paris depended more on Caussidiere than any other one man, and he set about genially to make the police an agency for conciliation rather than terrorism. All Paris was pleased by the general good humor of the gendarmes during this period. Caussidiere sent agents to the country to get in more wheat, so he was able to lower the price officially on March 2....
In checking crime, Caussidiere was highly successful. During his three months in office there was only one murder in the city, and theft was greatly reduced. He closed many gambling places, and tried to get amateur and unlicensed prostitutes off the streets, for he favored big legalized houses under the responsibility of a matron, where the girls would not be exploited by pimps and could be inspected for disease. (Anti-republicans complained that one reason why prostitution was increasing was the high wages paid to the various new republican police forces, Caussidiere's and others. A whole new class of smart young men had money to spend.) Venereal disease increased markedly during the gaiety of the first weeks of the republic, but in April and May, it went down again under the police campaign."
So there you go--revolution leads to less violent crime and more venereal disease.
Vive le Galt/Goblins do it in the street!
Sayyeda Zeinab: the 7th Century Heroine of Karbala
Also, Heroes of Revolutionary Socialism
Toussaint L'Overture: Slave, Revolutionary, General
Also, also, very Vive le Galt!ish article here. You can only read the first bit on the internet, alas, but here's my favorite part:
** spoiler omitted **...
Toussaint is essentially a god in some parts of the world.
No Gods, No Masters!
But he is quite a hero here in Galt.
The sectarianism of the revolutionary left is, of course, legendary:
From Robertson:
"The two best-known clubs belonged to Blanqui and Barbes.
Blanqui, released from his imprisonment on February 25, had come immediately to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed by his old admirers and at once set up the Central Republican Society. Blanqui at first rather expected to summon his followers to make another insurrection on the heels of the first, enforcing a more radical program, but within a few hours he decided to give the provisional government a chance, tore up his proclamation and restrained his partisans from an immediate coup d'etat....
In appearance Blanqui was small, with white hair and white lips and deeply lined cheeks. 'He seemed to have passed his life in a sewer and to have just left it,' wrote Tocqueville, who saw him in those days--perhaps because he always wore the same clothes he had had in prison. They were black, in mourning for his young wife who died while he was incarcerated, with no shirt, no speck of white linen showing. Even his hands were always encased in black gloves.
In doctrine he was the most complete revolutionary of his time, even more than Marx who felt the temporary domination of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat was inevitable and so did not oppose it. Thirty-seven years of Blanqui's fairly long life were spent in prison, but on each release he was more determined to destroy society than before. 'Society is nothing more than organized cannibalism,' he said, and, 'Hunger is slavery....'
Although Barbes was customarily mentioned in the same breath with Blanqui, and was his prisonmate for years before and after 1848, he was actually Blanqui's complete opposite and his enemy, personally and politically."
So, later, on 15 May, the Parisian radicals led a demonstration to the meeting place of the National Assembly to call on the new French republic to come to the aid of Poland. Barbes had been working with the provisional government, but, apparently, when the demonstration arrived, and he saw Blanqui in their midst and freaked out:
"Barbes had been opposed to the whole idea of a demonstration, possibly because he was a member of the Assembly. His club had voted against it the evening before and refused to take part. Now, with the mob actually in the Assembly Hall, Barbes leapt into the tribune and tried to get the petitioners to go away, while he also moved to the Assembly the war for Poland. But as soon as Barbes saw Blanqui in the crowd he lost his head, determined not to let his archenemy get ahead of him; and when the sound of the rappel being beaten for the national guards penetrated the Assembly room, Barbes cried 'We are betrayed!' and led the march to the Hotel de Ville."
There, Barbes proclaimed the overthrow of the provisional government, the formation of a new provisional government, proclaimed a revolutionary war against the Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns and Romanovs for the liberation of Poland, and, most importantly, declared that if Blanqui entered the room, he would break his head. Ah, the fraternal brotherhood of revolutionaries!
Anyway, the national guard soon showed up and threw Barbes back in jail.
Blanqui, too, got thrown in jail again in 1849, but escaped in 1869, just in time for the Paris Commune, where he was, again, thrown in jail.
According to Robertson: "The workers trusted him and did not forget him. In 1871 the Paris Commune made an offer to Thiers, then head of the Third French Republic, to exchange all their hostages for Blanqui alone, and were refused."
Vive le Galt!
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They also found a stone cock in Israel.I found one in Washington, DC.
From what I recall, obelisks were not meant as phalic symbols, but rather as solid representations of sunlight. After that, they became symbols of power and mystery associated with Egypt, hence why everyone wanted one.
Which, IIRC, gives you mystical powers if you perform Masonic rituals and murder prostitutes in its vicinity.
Or something. All that talk about architecture in From Hell went over my head.
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Really Doodlebug? Even:
"Styled on my John Thomas, more like."
"Netley! How perceptive! The obelisk is phallic, for the sun's a symbol of the Male principle; of man's ascendancy."
I tell you, an architecture lecture, a history lecture, a mythology lecture, and a dick joke, all in one comic; I guess I'd give Alan Moore about a B. :P
What's a John Thomas?
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Pizzle. Old Chap. Wang. Ayver. Nob, etc. etc.
Seek out a copy of 'John Thomas and Lady Jane' by D.H. Lawrence to read about the little fella in action.
On another note, I'd be a bit worried if mine looked like that obelisk, especially if someone had carved heiroglyphs into it.
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