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Sad to say, but almost every academic/athletic conference in the US has at least one school or team mascot that is an insulting stereotype. For all we know, Moperville South may be the Colorblind Vikings.

June 12 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians use the Feigned Retreat tactic to defeat the East Frankish army. This tactic was famous from use by nomadic warriors. Unfortunately for the Franks, they were led by a teenager known as King Louis the Child. Perhaps the actual leading of the army should be left to professional soldiers? 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis. The monk, himself a converted Jew, convinced himself that the Talmud was insulting to Christianity and offered his own translation of the Talmud as proof to the King and the Pope. Anecdotes beginning with the phrase "A monk and a rabbi walk into Paris..." do not survive the trial. 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Reading another person's diary would never be so depressing. 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa. That will certainly end his meddling in South African politics. 1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria, presidential seat won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola which is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida. But due to a this conflict, a Prince in Nigeria has offered to pay me one million American dollars to help him move his wealth out of his homeland. All I need to do is send him... 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered outside Simpson's home in Los Angeles. The next sixteen months can only be seen as a textbook lesson in how not to investigate and prosecute crime.

I think I recall a comedy bit that combined the GI Joe and Paul Harvey taglines. But I can not recall exactly where.

Abraham is not the "Creator" of the diamond, just like Tedd is not the creator of the wands and Carl Sagan is not the creator of the apple pie.

Mabey their named Grace-A-Monsters because they're from Graceland? Thankyouverymuch

June 09 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. It is so inconvenient when the wealthy and influential of a society need to depose the nominal government they had backed and actually do the administrating themselves. AD 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. A Daughter of Emperor Claudius and Step-Sister to Nero. I'm sure they will be happy for a long, long time... AD 68 – Nero commits suicide. That is one way to ensure you no longer forget your wedding anniversary. This ends the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. None of the succeeding Caesari or Augusti were directly related to Julius Caesar or Octavius Augustus. This is terribly convenient when it comes time to depose future emperors because even if the guy claiming the throne isn't a descendant of Julius, neither was the guy he stabbed in the back, and there are no "Rightful" heirs waiting in the wings. 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set. Redrawing all those maps after Napoleon's exercises had become tiresome... 1815 – Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire. C'mon guys. Can't you at least let the ink dry before you start changing things again? 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. Did they learn nothing from Athens? 1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. A Chicago Tribune reporter? Didn't Mr Lingle read what his own paper had been writing about Al Capone? 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen. Despite the popularity of the character, almost every theatre showing the film requires men in the audience to wear pants. 1954 – Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" It turns out, No, McCarthy did not have a sense of decency.

Unfortunately, those who had power in the United States at the time worked very hard to make sure that the average American was unaware of the difference. It didn't help that the most powerful Communist country called itself "Socialist".

I'm surprised no one has referenced this classic bit of animation yet...

Thus endeth the reading from the second epistle of Goonmanji. And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and...

June 08 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. 452 – Italy invaded by Attila the Hun. ...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and... 793 – A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine, "From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord." The raid of the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, marks the beginning of the Viking era in the Britain. You just know that those darn Jutes, after "migrating" with the Frisians, Saxons, and Angles, would go brag up England to their relatives back on the Baltic. 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England. What he fails to confess, at least in a manner to which everyone agrees, is who should be the next king after he dies. 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. This goes so well that it is nearly a month and a half before Robespierre is himself guillotined. 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. Does this also apply to public citizens with historical value? 1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members. Perhaps not so coincidentally, on the same day this report is published, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is also published. 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. Ok, several countries have experimented with delivering mail by rocket. And so far it hasn't worked out. But when it does... 1966 – The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970. How they convinced the US Government that this wasn't a violation of Anti-Trust laws is something of a mystery. I'm certain immediately granting an expansion franchise to the hometown of their biggest supporter in congress was just a coincidence.

Is this where we get into the "Birds Are Dinosaurs" part of the discussion? Birds have scales. Usually on the feet, but they are there. So all we need is an extremely large and magical bird...

"No true dragon has ever been..." Arthur, do you want to discuss this with St George? The Welsh Flag designer also might have an opinion on this matter. And even though it was with extreme difficulty, Magus managed to move from a reality where Dragons are real to the "normal" world of EGS. Is there no chance that anyone else ever made that leap? On the other hand, remember Susan's attempt to describe what happened to her in France. Even though the Aberration she encountered was not exactly like any of the classic literary or cinematic Vampires, it was similar. Similar enough that she realized her audience would call it a vampire regardless of the other details. Arthur, you have described a large magical animal with scales. Telling the meddling kids now that this is NOT some kind of dragon will be an uphill battle. Especially if you don't have another name that you definitely can give the beast. Is there any chance this scale was originally found in the Great Glen? They might stop calling it a "Dragon Scale" if you can convince them it came from the Loch Ness Monster. I'm sure that would be so much more believable.

Elliot has need to take on female forms for some time now to control the magic build-ups. Even if the cat-form is no longer painful, I wouldn't be surprised if Elliot rarely uses it. If only because it sheds cat hair all over the house and Brownie makes a big enough mess by himself.

June 07 421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople. Word of advice, Theo, every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople. So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul. 1002 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany. What an amazing coincidence. 1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France. There were some problems with his reign. But for 72 years and 110 days France does not need to change any of the royal inscriptions on seals, coins, buttons, palace stationary, monogramed towels... 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, by which the State of Vatican City was formally and diplomatically recognized as an independent state under the sovereignty of The Holy See. This was in no way a stunt by Benito Mussolini to impress Italy's largely Roman Catholic population. 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. More than five hundred thousand civilians are killed and at least a million more are otherwise affected. Many survivors of this flood would eventually support the Communist revolution that would bring down the pre-war Chinese government. Future military leaders may want to seriously reconsider any tactic that could kill half a million of their own civilians. 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. Certainly this format will maintain technological dominance far into the foreseeable future.

What kind of "large animal"? I want some conclusions, darnitol. So start jumping. It seems that Ellen still has some not-quite-resolved issues regarding Tedd. I'm going to guess that her suspicions will, in a not too distant future storyline, lead to at least one of the following outcomes. Someone will get hurt because she didn't trust Tedd. She will end up saving everyone because she didn't trust Tedd.

Sarah is upset. Partially because she is dehydrated and Noah is hogging the water bottle. But mostly because she came to the court to play basketball, but the guys just want to pose. Susan and Catalina are just debating the merits of different ways to get the ball rolling.

At work, I often deal with alarms. The most frequent alarm to go off on weekends or in the middle of the night is a "Trouble Alarm". That means a technician, who won't get to work for up to four days, needs to look at a piece of equipment and reset a sensor. In the meantime, I am left with a alarm that I can not reset, silence, or even acknowledge without permission from maintenance and the alarm company. Pain is an alarm. It lets you know something is wrong with the body. But once the pain is acknowledged, does it need to keep screaming?

You might have also mentioned, 1849 – By the signing of a new constitution, Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. 1953 – By the signing of a new constitution, Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy, again.. And just for good measure, 05 June is also Father's day in Denmark. Does Denmark deliberately schedule historic events and holidays on the anniversaries of previous historic events? It does seem like a good way to minimize the number of random dates a history student would be required to remember. Also, 05 June is promoted by some as the World Day Against Speciesism. A day when we are asked to look past our own species and see other forms of life not as property or pests but as beings with existence and feelings as valid as our own. I'M TALKING TO YOU, CATS!

Have you seen the on-line company Eve is keeping? I tried to be reasonable. I tried to warn her. But she would have none of it. That server is DEAD to me!

June 04 1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. Always nice to receive permission to do what you have been doing all along using the local molds that don't grow anywhere else. 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon) in Annonay. Note that they did not take their first flight in Paris, or any other capital city. They could not risk uncontrolled gusts of hot air. 1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude. I'm not certain if I should be angry that it took a year before a woman was allowed to fly in a balloon, or if I should be amazed that it ONLY took a year before a woman was allowed to fly in a balloon. 1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps. SPOILER ALERT: Camels are NOT the same as horses or mules. The rank and file of the US Army did not know how to handle them requiring further training and diversion of other resources in the Quartermaster Corps. And the biggest supporter of the idea, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (Yes, THAT Jefferson Davis), eventually left US government work to pursue other interests. 1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title. The British Empire expands its influence while making the Ottoman Empire look like the dominating foreign power? Brilliant! 1940 – World War II: Following the Dunkirk evacuation, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. If only that war could have been fought with rhetoric alone. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This enconter does not go quite as well for the Imperial Navy as the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor. 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. On 05 June, 1944, this story would dominate the headlines of newspapers in Allied countries around the world. On 06 June, this story would be largely forgotten.

Actually, not a bad plan. Arthur wants to test Tedd's abilities. What better way than to have Tedd examine something that was not behaving correctly but still should be relatively low powered? And since Tedd appeared female when they met most recently, Arthur has no problem identifying Tedd thusly. Will Elliot or Ellen tell Arthur that it is not always that simple with Tedd?

www.egscomics.com/comic/sister3-288 Actually, not a bad plan. Arthur wants to test Tedd's abilities. What better way than to have Tedd examine something that was not behaving correctly but still should be relatively low powered? And since Tedd appeared female when they met most recently, Arthur has no problem identifying Tedd thusly. Will Elliot or Ellen tell Arthur that it is not always that simple with Tedd?

June 03 1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton. So why are the successful "Midnight Rides" of the American Revolution relegated to historical footnotes, while the less than successful ride of Paul Revere becomes the stuff of poetic legend? 1927 – Birth of Boots Randolph, American saxophonist and composer of Yakety Sax. No Benny Hill show or chase scene would be complete without this maestro's work. 1943 – The original Zoot Suit Riots. In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in Zoot Suits. Officials try to put the blame on Axis or Communist agitators. Certainly it couldn't be because young and underprivileged people in an overcrowded city took a stand against transient strangers in uniform who would treat the locals like criminals. Also, June 03 is the Feast of St Kevin, just in case you meet any talking wands worth venerating.

http://www.egscomics.com/comic/sister3-287 Now we must wonder who is Arthur's mysterious daughter?