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  1. Posted

    May 12

    907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.  Although to be fair, 300 year old Tang wouldn't be served to Astronauts on even the most severe NASA budget cuts.

    1689 – King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.  Did England and France really need that much pretext to start a war?

    1820 – Birth of Florence Nightingale.  She would become notorious for spreading the radical idea that the sick and injured would have a better recovery in clean and comfortable surroundings.  By coincidence, she was born on what would become International Nurses Day.

    1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California.  It is difficult to make a comment about this in good taste.

    1937 – Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.  At just over six months since his ascension, this was one of the more rapidly occurring British coronations in several hundred years.  It was as if Westminster had been preparing a coronation for someone else and just needed to change the names on the Arch Bishop's cue cards.

    1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.  Was there any advantage (technological, military, economic, moral, or social)  that the German Government did not waste in WWII?

  2. Posted

    20 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    1310 – Philip IV of France has fifty-four members of the Knights Templar burned at the stake, ostensibly for heresy.  Certainly not because France was heavily indebted to the Templars.

     

    19 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    *looks uneasily at the National Bank, then turns a suspicious gaze on Parliament*

    Are you worried that the Politicians might execute the Bankers?

    Or that the Bankers might execute the Politicians?

    Or do you worry that neither will be executed?

  3. Posted

    5 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    ...killing off an important supporting character, replacing her with an evil double and then just forgetting about it, it gets a little harder to swallow. It would seem that the whole plan of the evil double was to murder her twin, take over her life and then continue it with no further effect on any of the events in the story

    Shhh... You'll give away our entire plan.  Or have you forgotten that you are a duplicate who replaced the original Hack, and was then supposed to forget that you are the duplicate?

  4. Posted

    May 11

    330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.  Istanbul was Constantinople.  Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople...

    1310 – Philip IV of France has fifty-four members of the Knights Templar burned at the stake, ostensibly for heresy.  Certainly not because France was heavily indebted to the Templars.

    1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.  If only British food was edible.  The rebels might have let the imperialists keep the Delhi.

    1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.  Despite the name of their award, they have nothing to do with hot dogs.

    1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.  War Crimes Barbie becomes the worst selling doll ever.

    1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.

    1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.  All hail our electronic overlord.

    1998 – To celebrate the third anniversary of the extension of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.

  5. Posted

    The crater in the parking lot had always been there.
    The impacting Uretronic just moved some pavement out of the way to make it more visible.

    It is unfortunate that the record of this battle is in still pictures and not high speed video.
    For example, the way Magus landed on the Golem.  While the snapshot looks impressive, how are we to know if he actually managed to stick the landing?  This could be the difference between Gold and Bronze.

  7. Posted

    12 hours ago, Illjwamh said:

    1774 - Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, become king and queen of France. They will come to regret this.

    This is how I learned about the French Revolution.

    And you forgot to mention

    1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.  Tell it to the Marines!

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  11. Posted

    19 hours ago, partner555 said:

    Why the hell did ancient Uryuoms not like humans?

    Why don't humans like humans?  One hundred words or fewer, please.

    Modern English is even older than Shakespeare (ca. 1600).
    Even Chaucer's Middle English (ca. 1400) can be understood by Modern English speakers if they know some archaic words and grammar.

    Old English is the collection of dialects south of Scotland and east of Wales from the era after the Romans abandoned the place, through the era when those annoying Jutes were "peacefully" colonizing Britain, up to to the era when the French speaking Vikings were not so peaceful about it (pre 1100).

    If there were still living populations speaking the various dialects we now call Old English, we almost certainly wouldn't lump them all together as a single language.  I would not be surprised if the ancient forms of Uryuomco were similarly diverse.

  13. Posted

    There was no paper (or similar) trail for Pyramid construction.

    Every record of how to build it, along with every human who knew anything useful about how to build it, was either destroyed or sealed into the tomb along with the primary resident.

    What an honour.

  15. Posted

    The conflict involving the Uryuoms, Humans, Magic, the Library, and the Hecka Figure (possibly the current holder of the Mantle of Hecka, more likely a predecessor) was over a VERY long time ago.

    But if the Golem was unaware of the passage of time while deactivated and crated, then it would not be unreasonable for it to take the reactions of some scared, magic using teens as the delaying tactics of light infantry or guards who need only slow their enemy down while summoning reinforcements.

    Stopping to talk with anyone in the warehouse at this point would probably be about the least plausible course of action for the Golem.

    If the Golem presses the attack, Elliot, Ellen, Magus, and Kevin(?) might be able to defend themselves.  Possibly even damage the Golem further.  But I doubt they could deactivate it intact or convince it to surrender and submit to questioning.

    On the other hand, if the Golem does attack, the mile wide crater is, perhaps, among the best possible outcomes.

    The long term threat is if the Golem decides to retreat at this point.  It will look for its commanders or allies.  And who out there would be in a position to know the ancient Golem's language and repair the damaged brute?

    Voltaire is about to get a henchman.

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  18. Posted

    May 3

    1715 – A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.  This was better than his prediction for a certain comet's return which was only accurate within one year.

    1921 – The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.  Certainly this will end all conflict on the Emerald Isle.

    1935 – Birth of Ron Popeil, American businessman.  But wait, there's more!  He founded the Ronco Company.  Now how much would you pay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BX56syrmWQ

    1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  Many Americans seem to forget or ignore the "Fiction" part.

     

    1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.  This wasn't the first time a major sports franchise had moved.  It would not be the last time.  But some how, this became the great tragedy that future generations would continue to lament.

    1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.  Try to remember.

    1960 – The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  Try to remember.

    1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.  Civilization officially comes to an end.

  19. Posted

    If the green hair is just a cosmetic effect, then it really doesn't matter to the story because there are so many ways of dealing with this situation that have already been established.

    No, for Dan to make a point about green hair at this point in the comic, it can only mean one thing.

    Ellen can now perform photosynthesis.

  20. Posted

    14 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

     "If I won the $500 million Powerball, the first thing I'd do...."

    After taxes and the practical, predictable, boring stuff I would buy $100,000,000.00 in scratch-off lottery tickets.

    You gotta spend money to make money.

  24. Posted

    First, apparently the Ashley Eek is the most effective alarm yet devised.  I hope they never get that bottled up.  What would happen to those of us who enjoy sleeping late?

    Do we want the Golem to survive now that it remembers its mission, purpose, or instructions?  Can we get that information before the Golem components get scattered across the pavement?

    And finally, floating female Elliot looks like she is dancing the Hokey-Pokey.  Right foot in and all that.  Why has Magus not yet joined in?  Does he not know that's what it's all about?

  25. Posted

    April 29

    1380 – Death and Feast Day of St Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church.  She was a terrible disappointment to her family.

    1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.  The overwhelming opinion on both sides is that the place is for the birds.

    1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Vasteras.  Why were the sons of Vikings fighting each other in the first place?  Isn't that what the rest of Europe is for?

    1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.  Ricardo Montalbán is found in cold sleep.

    1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in the Berlin Führerbunker.  For a wedding present, U-286 torpedoes the Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) outside the Kola Inlet.  The news does not get better for Herr Schicklgruber.

    1945 – World War II: The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.  The rest of the German army in Italy surrenders to the Allies.  Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.

    1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.  65 years later and 3D Television is still experimental and/or an expensive novelty.

    1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.  He will get a rematch and reclaim his championship.

    1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.  Because turning over records that you have edited will certainly answer all your critics' questions and get the press and Congress off your back.