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  1. Posted · Edited by Pharaoh RutinTutin
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    24 July

    1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.  Some children can be very demanding.  Bu there comes a point when Mom must say, "No!  Wait your turn."

    1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.  Are they still willing to trade for it?

    1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.  Ferb, I know what we're doing today.  By the way, where's Commodore Perry?

    1901 – William Sydney Porter, better known by the Pen Name O. Henry, is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.  A man embezzles from a bank, gets caught, and spend three years in prison.  Not much of a twist ending to that short story, Mr Henry.

    1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.  There are always risks inherent to sailing.  But to capsize while TIED TO A DOCK?

    1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).  That's it.  No more wars.

    1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.  Apparently the 1929 Treaty wasn't quite as effective as hoped.

    1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.  Remember, untrained civilians may operate the Bumper Cars at the Carnival.  But only Rocket Scientists should operate Bumper Rockets at Canaveral.

    1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".  Resolved, A Salad is the optimal opening course for the evening meal.  For the affirmative, Mr Nixon.  For the negative, or Soup, Mr Khruschev.

    1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.  From Florida, they had to fly all the way to the moon before they could take their Pacific Cruise.  But at least they were able to avoid changing flights in Atlanta.

    1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.  If you don't want your secret recordings used against you, don't make secret recordings.

    1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.  Almost any layman would say that entering the US Capitol armed and alone while shooting at anything that moves is insane.  So why is does it seem so frustrating when it actually becomes the legal defense?

    2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.  So it can be done.  Maybe those revolutionaries in other countries weren't necessarily wrong to execute the former monarchs after deposing them.

  5. Posted

    23 July

    1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands.  There seems to be room for a diplomatic solution to this problem.

    1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.  What is so wrong with sub titles?

    1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.  And it's about time.  All those people speaking Italian just make it frustrating for the rest of us.

    1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.  And in a little over fifty years, this gesture would lead to Gorbachev recognizing the independence of the Baltic States.

    1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.  From the Lion of Verdun to the Scapegoat of Vichy.  Coming out of retirement was a bad career move for the Marshal.

    1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.  And that's the way it is, simultaneously on both coasts.

    1967 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.  There is a serious problem in Urban America and something needs to be done immediately!

    1968 – Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.  There is a serious problem in... Really? Just one year later and half a lake downstream?

    1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.  Well isn't that convenient.

  7. Posted

    Raven growing a beard?
    Mirror Universe Spock?

     

    For some reason, I expected Grace to arrange the eventual meeting between Adrian Raven and the Moperville North group.

     

    This is not the first time Sarah has taken the initiative.  (It was almost a requirement when dating Elliot.)  But this feels incredibly surprising.

     

    And an actual end to the current arc has been announced.
    Maybe now we can get answers to the questions raised before Sister III.
    Questions like, "Who is the Muffin Man?"

  9. Posted

    22 July

    22/7– Pi Approximation Day, for those of you in the Fraction Faction.

    1376 – According to a poem by Robert Browning, this is the day the Pied Piper led the children out of the town of Hamelin.  The Brothers Grimm gave the date as 26 June 1284.  You would think that a tragic event like that would be more definitively recorded.

    1587 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.  Because when you don't know why the first colony failed, you should establish a second colony in the same location.

    1893 – After admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Wellesley professor Katharine Lee Bates writes a poem that would eventually become America the Beautiful.  Eventually.  Halcyon skies and enameled plains would not make the final cut.

    1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.  Dion's vehicle was not eligible because it needed a 'stoker'.  Shouldn't someone have told the Comte before the race started?

    1916 – A parade is held in San Francisco for Preparedness Day.  An event encouraging people to prepare for America's eventual entry into the global conflict that would become known as the First World War.  To mark the event, antiwar anarchists explode a bomb on Market Street during the parade, killing ten and injuring 40.  Because nothing expresses your opposition to war better than killing.

    1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.  Now how are we doing on the manned spaceflight program?

    1997 – The traffic capacity between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario is doubled by opening a second Blue Water Bridge.  Thus the trip from Chicago to Toronto, without going through Detroit, is now even faster.

    2002 – Birth of Prince Felix of Denmark.

    2013 – Birth of Prince George of Cambridge.  "Official" or "Observed" birthdays for royals are often held in the summer, supposedly to allow for more pleasant weather during the celebrations.  But these royals were actually born in the summer.  Can they really get by with just one birthday each year?

  10. Posted

    21 July

    356 BC – The Second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus is destroyed by Herostratus in a desperate act to gain Herostratic fame through arson.  Ephesus sentenced Herostratus to death and forbade anyone to mention the name, Herostratus.  However, historian Theopompus would record the name Herostratus so that everyone would know that when the Second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed about the time Alexander the Great was born, it was because of an arsonist named Herostratus.

    1545 – The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.  Because without French troops landing on the Isle of Wight, there really wouldn't be a French invasion of the Isle of Wight.

    1816 – Birth of Paul Reuter, German-English journalist, founded Reuters.  Someone should figure out a way to get this news out to the whole world.

    1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.  I waffled on whether or not to include this.

    1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.  So any "Western" you might encounter that features a "Showdown" before the end of the US Civil War is historically inaccurate.

    1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.  So any "Western" you might encounter that features a "Train Robbery" before Ulysses Grant's second term as President of the US is historically inaccurate.  Sometimes it seems like most of the "Westerns" I've encountered have been historically inaccurate.

    1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.  As a way to celebrate a country's national day, it is at least as practical as bombs bursting in air.

    1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.  Apparently this wasn't a big enough crash to end commercial airship travel.

    1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.  When will teachers learn that politicians answering to the loudest voices in the electorate know how to instruct youth better than professional educators?

    1925 – Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).  Because you wouldn't expect the British to just sit by and let a Frenchman keep that record.

    1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.  Problem solved.  Nothing more to see here.

    1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.  Ramses gets his temple moved to keep his feet out of the water.  But what about the rest of us?

    1973 – In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.  I know you may not believe this, but spilling your coffee does not make your waiter a terrorist.

    2011 – The last flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.  But this is only a temporary delay in the American Space Program because NASA is ready to go with... with...  Uh, guys?  I think you missed your cue.

  11. Posted · Edited by Pharaoh RutinTutin
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    12 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    maybe against Susan's fairy as well! That would even safer as harming fairy wouldn't mean harming Nanase or Susan, so Elliot would be only one in danger.

    Remember, Susan can use the Hammers against anyone now.
    Although I don't think it has been firmly established that she can use the hammers through the fairy doll.

    And another thing to bear in mind if before utilizing frosting as a safety net.

     - - -

     - - -

    The Cake Is A Lie.

     

    And even worse,

    What if someone left the cake out in the rain?

  14. Posted · Edited by Pharaoh RutinTutin
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    21 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Germahn Labs are in Europe.

    German labs are in Europe.

    Germahn Labs are in Moperville.

    Edit:  or should that be, Germahn Labs is in Moperville?

    Even though the word "labs" is plural, the name "Germahn Labs" might be considered singular.

    Grammar Police sharpshooters have me in their sights.

  19. Posted

    Greg is back.
    Offering practical and sensible tactical advice.

    As for the safety net for sparing?
    If this story were taking place in Los Angeles, there are plenty of studios with everything you need for controlled falling.
    If this story wasn't in the middle of winter, just go out over Lake Michigan out of sight of land and spar at ten meters.  This is safe as long as you know how to dive and the lake isn't frozen.
    Not too far from where I live in Florida, a high school has its own "Big Top" tent with the full range of trapeze, tight rope, catapult, and safety net equipment on site.

    But in the middle of the Mid-West in the middle of winter, this is going to take some effort.
    Wait, the Griffons will be returning soon,  They might have some advice about safely training to fight while flying.

    As for the hare cut?  Could it be that Dan wants to make Elliot and Ellen look less alike?.

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:

    That's wrong from one end to the other! It was regular matter that tried to annihilate her.

    That may be true.

    However, the descendants of Regular Matter were the survivors and they told the story their way.

    The descendants of Dark Matter outnumbered Regular Matter's kids.  But the Dark Matter family wouldn't interact with their Regular neighbors, on a quantum level at least, so they largely ignored each other.

  22. Posted

    July 17

    1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.  I'm certain King Charles will remember his gratitude to the Maid of Orleans if she is ever in distress.

    1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.  It is well known that King George greatly enjoyed the work of GF Handel.  But apparently he thought it was acceptable to treat other musicians like freight by loading them on barges.

    1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.  Why has this man not been Canonized?

    1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.  As Sophia of Hanover was a descendant of King James VI & I, they could have reclaimed the Stuart name.  But instead chose to name the family for the old castle outside London where they liked to spend the weekends.  Meanwhile, an Ontario city just north of Lake Erie for a moment is allowed to believe it could become known as something other than Detroit's Canadian Suburb.

    1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.  This was after the Tsar had already been forced to abdicate.  And the character assassination of Nicholas would be continued by the historians of the Soviet Union.  Apparently, the Revolutionaries remembered the lesson of Rasputin and were determined to make sure the last Tsar died and would stay dead.

    1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.  Apparently Karma doesn't provide protection from three torpedoes.

    1938 – After flying from Long Beach, CA to New York, Douglas Corrigan files a flight plan to return to Long Beach.  He then took off from Brooklyn only to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland.  Thus becoming known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.  For the rest of his life, this experienced aircraft pilot, builder, and mechanic, who had modified his plane for a trans-Atlantic flight, continued to claim his misreading of the compass was completely accidental.

    1944 – World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery. in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was strafed by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.  The Field Marshal's death in a few months were a result of these wounds.  Certainly not because someone accused of trying to kill Hitler implicated Rommel in the plot, forcing the Marshal to commit suicide to protect the rest of his family.

    1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany and set the terms for the surrender of Japan.  They are able to reach a workable, if not ideal, solution.  This would not be a common occurrence in the future.  Both the Americans and Soviets found it more useful to treat each other like  suspicious monsters for the next forty years rather than seriously negotiate.

    1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.  A Mickey Mouse operation if ever there was one.

    1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.  This was a test of a Nuclear Warhead in an Artillery Shell.  Apparently the AEC could not find volunteers to throw Nuclear Hand Grenades.

    1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.  The spacecraft designed to go to the moon is asked to traverse an even wider gap.

    1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.  This became the first of the boycotted Olympics.  Because the Olympic Games should be known for political grandstanding and not the athletic achievements of people like Nadia Comăneci.

    1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.  Technically, the legal age to purchase alcohol is still a state matter. But if the state does not enforce the federal mandated minimum of 21, that state's Federal Transportation Budget will be cut.  Very subtle way around separation of powers.

  23. Posted · Edited by Pharaoh RutinTutin
    Posted before I was finished writing

    1 hour ago, ChronosCat said:

    EDIT: I don't know what I did, but somehow when I was in the middle of working on the post, it posted itself...

    Glad to know this happens to other

    Edit:  people

     

  25. Posted

    France

    Why should a French victory seem like a disappointment?

    They have won it before.  They will be hosting the next Women's World Cup.

    And no one has a more violent National Anthem.

    But even with all that, a French championship still feels some how incomplete.

    Or is that just my impression?