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How henry 8 and Elizabeth 1st used their newfound legal powers from Henry's reformation to induce coal production on prosperous, but not highly utilized, land in the Durham-Northumberland region
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html?m=1
That's neat , always heard people avoided plain water.
Yeah, you tend to have to go down the journal rabbitholes to find neat stuff. I came across a really neat article a few months ago (one of the journal publishers had a free weekend for downloading electronic copies of their history/archaeology journals and I, ah, indulged myself) looking at reconstructions of PIE military/etc terms (weapons, conflict-related terms, poetic diction, etc) and trying to tentatively reconstruct a bit of what the original speakers' culture may have been like.
It's both neat how much can receive fairly educated guesses from what we have, but also sad at how wispy and antiseptic the results are when you think about how complex any culture extant or extinct can get. I can dig up the article if you're curious.
I wonder if early modern/modern city water basically being composed of liquid death as often as not informed that sort of thing. "Why, if water isn't safe to drink on Broad Street in the glorious modern year 1854, it must have been most horrific indeed in medieval times!"
On that note, Dr. Snow's figuring out the cause of the cholera outbreak in 1854 London is amazing, one of the first cases of hauling largescale datasets around and using visualization to study them, and is a case of a time and place where you actually did benefit from sticking to beer because it was safer than the water.
Just me?
Ok then.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
it's pretty great having this shiny certificate in a nice frame to hang alongside my new Bachelor's Degree
It took me about 2 years to get the fuck up and write my thesis in about 2 and a half weeks.
My advisor was a fucking saint
Classics major, by the way.
After weeks of such punishment, William Hockett was captured at Gettysburg and released to live in Philadelphia. He remained there until the end of the war.
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I mean, that's not a high bar, but compared with other churches, that seems quite radical, even by today's standards glares at Catholicism
WoW
Dear Satan.....
this almost certainly didn't happen but it is a very Thatcher thing to do
Remember Nixon was also a Quaker one of the last of California
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
@Usagi
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
it's... alright. community is still awful, but not quite as absolutely monstrous as world of tanks
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
Ideally I'd like a single player fleet tactics game with WWII-era ships. And since nobody wants to make that, I guess I have to put up with people.
Planes are the best.
@DaMoonRulz we should both save up and do one of those ww2 bomber tours someday.
That'd be a lot of saving! but it'd be pretty cool
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
Most countries are pretty forgiving when their allies sell decisive weapons to nations they're at war with.
Though it has the St. Louis, which is the ultimate "I'm having a grumpy day and need to orbital-bombardment the crap out of someone" vessel.
From Sarah Vowell's "The Wordy Shipmates":
In The Witches of Eastwick, a novel set in a fictional, seemingly dull Rhode Island village, John Updike tips his hat to Rhode Islands weirdo founders. Satan moves to town and wonders why the alluring local witches live in such a humdrum place. “Tell him Narragansett Bay has always taken oddballs in,” says one witch to another, “and what’s he doing up here himself?”
That said, Williams’s colony is hardly utopia. There is as much internecine squabbling— if not more— going on there as there is in Massachusetts.
In 1672, the sixty-nine-year-old Williams himself will wage a vicious war of words with the colony’s Quakers because he believes they have “set up a false Christ.” The Quaker belief in the “God within” each person is anathema to a Bible-based Calvinist like Williams, who writes in his screed against Quaker founder George Fox, "George Fox Digg’d Out of his Burrowes", “they preached the Lord Jesus to be themselves.” Williams even holds a three-day-long debate in Newport with three Quakers. “The audience, mostly Baptists and Quakers,” writes Perry Miller, “heckled him with cries of ‛old man, old man,’ and whispered, after he had on the first day shouted himself hoarse in order to get any hearing, that he was drunk.” (More than three decades after John Cotton accused Williams of missing God’s point back in Salem when he smote him with laryngitis, he was once again struck dumb during a spree of punditry.)
Here is the important difference between Massachusetts Bay and Narragansett Bay. Quakers such as Mary Dyer are hanged in Boston Common. In Rhode Island, there is bickering, but there is no banishing. There are mean-spirited spiritual debates, but no forced and freezing hikes of exile. (excerpt)
Image: Mary Dyer Statue on Boston Common, Corner of Bowdoin and Beacon
@builderr0r @tynic and other Boston-area residents who may have passed by without knowing the history
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
Sometimes I wish monuments like this were more explicit.
I want things like that to read the way that the bricks in sidewalks all over Europe do. "Here lived [name], - deported 1942, murdered in Auschwitz on 18.9.1943," is much more effective and meaningful in my opinion than however large a statue without any information.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Pretty cut and dry to me. I like it!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
*not actually John Harvard
** we don't know what he looked like
*** it's just some dude
although I guess that would deprive all the tour guides of a fun tidbit to tell people.
I don't know if anyone else who isn't an EU resident has noticed them when traveling to Europe, but they're incredibly powerful. At least to me, because you'll be walking down some alley in some town and then there's a single brass cobblestone and it lists the name of someone who was deported and murdered.
"Stolperstein" means "stumbling stone," which I also find... apt? I suppose?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
they're super powerful and emotive and their very understatedness is part of that, imo
I didn't know they were called that, but you're absolutely right! It's the fact that they're just there, and you glance to see what it is and realize so quickly. It's not the same project but I felt that way about all the buildings I saw in certain towns/cities with plaques on doorways or walls. It really brings to bear the width and breadth of the tragedy in a way that a number in a textbook doesn't.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I heard John Harvard was 7 feet tall and could carry a horse with one arm
he'll save children, but not the british children?
The MIT children but yes
That's unusual. Most horses don't have any arms.
The site of the original settlement is preserved in downtown Providence as the Roger Williams National Memorial. There, the compass and sundial Williams probably carried with him on the traumatic nature hike that got him here are on display. (excerpt)
—Sarah Vowell in "The Wordy Shipmates"
A Gift and A Grant Day of Note: Narragansett Chief Sachem Canonicus, friend of Roger Williams and ally of the British during the Pequot War, died on this date in 1647. (this date being Yesterday)
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
Fast forward to four days ago:
HMS Caroline, light cruiser and last surviving participant in Jutland, has opened as a museum ship in Belfast
The Dual of the Ironclads
Why was the battle so significant? As soon as that battle occurred, every single other navy in the world was rendered completely irrelevant as a result of the massive technological leap. A single ironclad could destroy a blockade, and 5 of them could take on an entire armada with minimal losses and damage.
image of the damage to the monitor
I have been jonesing something fierce
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long