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If he's talking about ships, shouldn't the line from the last panel be "I've sailed yawl"?

11 October 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the powers of King Edward II of England with the Ordinances of 1311. We are loyal subjects of the King. We just don't trust him with our money. 1649 – Cromwell's New Model Army Sacks Wexford killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians. Silly thing, Cromwell and the Wexford leaders were attempting to negotiate Wexford's surrender, but both were being incredibly stubborn and slow. Then someone in the Parliamentary Army lost patience and started the attack. So the 3,500 casualties? The devastated city and port? It was all just a mistake. 1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. In less than a hundred years, this little survey party would get blamed for everything. 1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri. So much for the idea that the first time Teddy Roosevelt flew, he was carried by a flock of Bald Eagles he raised himself in their native environment at the peak of a mountain. 1957 – Space Race: Operation Moonwatch scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit. This was the work of amateur American astronomers. 1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). This was the work of professional American engineers. 1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. Those who want change will complain that the council does not change enough. Those who do not want change will complain that the council changes too much. 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. The professional American Rocket Scientists finally get one right.

Someone makes a scene, and then other people try to make it about themselves? Yes, other reactions should have been more likely, vocal, and numerous. But the reactions shown were not implausible.

Spider Grace, If your super powers do not actually include some kind of snappy-patter skill, don't try to fake it. Just settle on a few TRADEMARKTM Lines and then release the greeting card writers you have webbed up in the basement.

Have you consulted your herpetologist?

Or Nanase could just use one of Tedd's watches and set her hair any way she wants.

I was joking about the random transformations... But in a world like EGS, this kind of thing actually would be a problem. Even the medical profession officially regards spontaneously changing hair color as a medical condition. Other transformations that could not be covered up would need to be treated the same way. Ever start the day at work feeling ok, only to start coughing uncontrollably? A color shifting gender swap with tail growth that leaves you looking nothing like your official ID photo would probably be even more inconvenient.

A few days ago, while working in the insane morning hours, I look up. The rising Waning Crescent Moon through the trees looks far too much like the disembodied grin of the Cheshire Cat. Am I just imagining things? Is the Invisible Sky Cat really watching the world?

09 October 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks. The plan of Pepin the Short, their father, seems to have been to force the brothers to cooperate in ruling his Kingdom. It didn't work. 1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. It would be named for Johannes Kepler. Even though Kepler wasn't the first to observe it, he did make what would be the most extensive records and he published a book about the event. 1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. Did he really expect religious leaders to quietly consider his arguments about how the religious leaders were doing their jobs? 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Bright College Years ahead for Whiffenpoofs everywhere. 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. The British keep letting the Americans capture things called "Detroit". Why didn't the Americans realize what the British were doing? 1825 – The sloop Restauration coming from Stavanger, Norway, arrived in New York Harbor, the start of the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States. It is because of this event that October 09 is recognized as Leif Erikson Day. Not because of any particular event on October 9 in the life of son of Eiríkr Þorvaldsson. 1919 – Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series. Because what could possibly be worse than grown men paid to play a boy's game deliberately trying to lose? 1940 – Birth of John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, Plastic Ono Band, and The Dirty Mac) (d. 1980). Such a picky eater as a child, To get him to eat his veggies his parents would practically beg, "All we are saying is give peas a chance". 1980 – Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City. A conciliatory gesture between Catholics and Buddhists? What's next? Catholic girls allowed to date Episcopalian boys? 1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France. Dr Guillotine, France has decided to not renew its lease on your device. Please remove it at your earliest convenience. 2012 – Members of the Pakistani Taliban make a failed attempt to assassinate an outspoken schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai. It is sad that a terrorist group pretending to be a legitimate government feels it must deliberately target a school girl as an enemy. It is utterly pathetic that this attack fails.

Don't you just hate it when a random transformation strikes while you're trying to work?

High School Seniors would never cause a public disturbance like this in a school where the walls were covered in a sufficient quantity of Murals!

Bah... The use of barrels in video games peaked in Donkey Kong.

3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar. In other words, if my understanding of Wikipedia is correct, this is 1st of Tishrei, AM 1. Considered the sixth day of creation (Rosh Hashanah Day 1), on which the Bible recalls that God created Man and Woman. 1763 – King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. Yeah... even without a revolution, I'm pretty sure the descendants of Europeans in the British colonies are going to ignore that order. 1765 – Stamp Act Congress. The first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise an unified protest against British taxation. Eventually Parliament repeals the act due to business pressure in England, but continues to assert that they can and will tax and legislate for the American colonies. The absence of American representation in Parliament is irrelevant. For bonus points, can anyone think of a worse way this crisis might have been resolved? 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hydrogen filled balloon. Didn't anyone on the Prussian side have artillery that pointed UP? 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. Coach Heisman (yes, THAT Heisman) runs up the score in response to the Cumberland Baseball team running up the score on Georgia Tech the previous season, and also to protest the press convention of determining National Championships based on the total points a team would score in the season. 1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity. By giving comfort to the poorest of the sick and dying, she influenced the most rich and powerful. Can the lessons she taught reach the current generation of the rich and powerful? 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. Project "Man in a Can" was an accurate name. But probably less heroically poetic in the long run. 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. Still no green cheese. 1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting. White male American billionaires over fifty years old now have a news source that tells them exactly what they want to hear. 2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. And the American military knows exactly what weapons the Afghans posses. They are all from the US back when the Afghan militants were fighting the invading Soviets. 2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Recall is a rarely used electoral option in some States. Considering the 2003 California mess, it is likely to remain rarely used. 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere. It was detected by an amateur astronomer 19 hours before impact. If this had been a large impactor, there would not have been enough time to evacuate a densely populated area. No means for deflecting or destroying a large impactor that close were or are available. Someone needs to take this seriously. We keep telling ourselves that we are smarter than the Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous.

Believe it or not, there are actually some people who can sleep an entire night without drainage issues.

06 October 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army. Rome is lucky. Usually when an army loses, it doesn't get the opportunity to reform itself. Usually the best the losing survivors can hope for is to become the grunt auxiliary for the winning army. 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: Forces of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia. See what happens when you take your reforms seriously? 1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters. The crazy thing is that DeSoto started this expedition in what was probably the best place to spend a winter out of all the places his army subsequently went. Unfortunately for the Conquistadores, there is no gold in the vicinity of Tampa Bay. Even worse for the Conquistadores, there are LOTS of rumors of gold some place "over there". Worst of all, the Conquistadores believed those rumors. 1600 – Euridice, (from the Orpheus legend) the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period. There was an earlier work by the same composer but a different librettist based on the legend of Daphne (Jinkies! the Velma Opera, was never staged due to budget cuts). The libretto for Dafne has survived, but the score was lost, thus there are art historians unwilling to say that Dafne was an opera and not just a play with music. This may seem overly pedantic, but darnitol, this is the dawn of Baroque Opera! If we can't be pedantic about this, then why be pedantic about anything? 1729 – Birth of Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (d. 1804). Considered by scholars such as Paul Wesley Chilcote to be the busiest female Methodist preacher, as she preached up until the day she died. Imagine a woman working more than the men around her and still not considered an equal. Glad that never happens anywhere else. 1789 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace. He would have been better off if he had changed his residence to someplace outside France. What good is keeping your crown if you don't have a place to wear it? 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. It really took them that long to realize you could put chairs behind the bench? 1908 – The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. Don't the people of Herzegovina or Bosnia get a say in this? No? How about the next crisis? Maybe the one after that? 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie. Blackface and Jewish Stereotypes combine to create one of the most significant artifacts of entertainment history. 1985 – Death of Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921). Sure, he worked with Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Kate Smith, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Keely Smith, Sue Raney, and Ed Townsend. But to so many, he is the composer of the Batman theme. 1995 – The first planet orbiting another Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered. Who would have thought that big gas giants orbiting very close to their host stars would be easier to find than small rocks orbiting farther out?

Sounds like a hidden camera show hosted by Howie Mandel.

If this is from any point in the past, then the alt version is not canon because George never had Pink Hair.

04 October AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They later decapitate emperor Wang Mang… Peasants revolting? Decapitate Wang Mang? If your inner twelve year old hasn't already had a field day with this, anything I could write would only leave you offended. 1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention. I thought the French knew more about dealing with Grapes than almost any other people on Earth. But one Corsican led artillery battery was able to eliminate a French Royalist army with Grapeshot? If this keeps up, I may need to turn to California wines. 1830 – The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands. It's about time. Nothing worse than an Illegal Revolution. 1883 – First run of the Orient Express. Murder, espionage, and assorted crimes of passion are still bad things. But at least now there is a place where you can do those things in style. 1918 – World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey. This may have been the work of German saboteurs in America. But it was more likely simply American worker error. When will the rest of the world realize that no matter how much they may hate the USA, no one is better than Americans at destroying Americans? 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. To commemorate this event, October fourth through tenth was later declared "Space Week" by the United Nations. I understand that this year for Space Week, the Earth will spend the entire week in Space. 2004 – SpaceShipOne, which took Twenty Five Million Dollars to develop, wins the Ten Million Dollar Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. 2006 – Psst. Don't tell anyone. WikiLeaks is launched.

So Diane's first apology should be to Lucy? Immediately as they rush between classes? "I was wrong and I am sorry" sounds nice, but it could just leave Lucy more confused. Later in the day when they both have a more convenient moment? Perhaps when Diane has taken time to think about all the ways she hurt Lucy?

Is the new season of Voltron out? Mr Tensaided needs to keep the vital business information up to date.

How long of a long run are we considering here? It probably won't matter as the last proton decays in the heat death of the universe.

EGS Special Edition Strikes Back. Again. Lest we forget, SARAH SHOT FIRST!

Susan enjoys being "out of control" within very controlled conditions. Haven't we already established this?

29 September 1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner. Ælfheah refuses ransom and dies as a captive of the Vikings. What makes the Archbishop of Canterbury such a compelling target? 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns. Unfortunately, they're back at it in January. 1864 – The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate. A microstate on the border between two hostile power can be a potential diplomatic tool for either or both. A microstate on the border between two powers that have resolved their differences is a chunk of territory just waiting to be claimed by one or the other, if not divided between both. 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital. This could take a while... 1923 – The First American Track & Field championships for women are held. Women in America could vote since 1920. They could run for office, but they could not RUN? 1988 – NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster. No doubts about the courage and dedication of the Space Shuttle flight crews. Considerable questions about the Space Shuttle designers and administrators and the politicians who appointed them. 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed. Even with 20th Century construction techniques, 67 years is pretty good time in the field of Cathedral Construction. Also, according to the World Heart Federation, 29 September is "World Heart Day". If I only had one...

28 September 551 BC – Birth of Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. And the indispensable ingredient of Fortune Cookies. In later centuries, several places with significant Chinese heritage would observe this as "Teacher's Day". But not China itself. 48 BC – Pompey is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy upon arriving in Egypt. Getting involved with an internal war in Rome? How many ways can that go wrong for Egypt? 235 – Pope Pontian resigns when the Emperor exiles him to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome. By resigning, Pontian ends an early Christian schism and allows the Roman congregation to chose a new Bishop, rather than making them wait for the official news of his demise. Imagine, a religious leader more concerned with the well being of his congregation than in preserving or asserting his spiritual and temporal authority. This could set a dangerous precedent. 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor. Ok, how little are you paying yourarmies that someone throwing around a little silver and gold can make two Legions turn against their own capitol? 935 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. Wenceslaus would posthumously be promoted to King, be declared a Martyr and a Saint, and become known in song and story as Good King Wenceslaus. Meanwhile, Boleslav I, aka, Boleslaus I the Cruel, despite being complicit in fratricide would inherit his brother's throne and go on to be regarded as one of the better rulers of Bohemia. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? 1781 – American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown. Those American rebels might actually have a chance at this point. 1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter. So all you need to be certain of a meter's length is an official bar made of 90% Platinum and 10% Iridium held at the melting point of water. 1895 – Death of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist. Apparently pasteurization can not preserve things forever. But the anniversary of his death would be remembered as World Rabies Day. 1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory. Most lab technicians and many scientists would, upon noticing a mold contaminated petri dish, throw the sample out. But Fleming takes a closer look, discovering what later became known as penicillin. The lesson here is never throw out the moldy stuff. It still might be good for something.