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I’m back with more holiday book shopping ideas! Let’s see what we have today: For the young entrepreneur: Ryder K The Mini Boss: The Littlest Hands, Yet the Biggest Dreams, by Cheyenne Davis, Margaret Bowdre, & Ryder K Wharton/Illustrated by Niles Britwum, (Nov. 2024, Kingston Imperial), $16.99, ISBN: 9781954220782 Ages 5-9 Many will recognize 7-year-old entrepreneur and her mother, Cheyenne…

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she's still being referred to as 'your highness' by the king's party after the second succession act has passed...?

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“Japanese Action in Manchuria Defended Very Successfully,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 17, 1933. Page 2. ---- “Resolved that this house approve Japan's activities in Manchuria” was the subject of the Intercollegiate Debate between Ottawa University and Queen's last evening at Convocation Hall. In the opinion of the Judges, Father C. J. Keating, Col. W. B. Megloughlin and Dr. D. A. Mackenzie-McNaughton, E. H. Gilmour and John Parlor of Queen’s, upholding the affirmative, were declared winner over Mr. Dougaid, and Mr. McDonald of Ottawa University, who upheld the negative. 

As first speaker for the affirmative, Mr. Gilmour stated that Japan activities in Manchuria were a benefit not only to the rest of the world but expressly to China herself. Japan’s rights were legal, having been granted to Japan by international treaty rights which had been overlooked too easily through the sinister influence of Chinese propaganda. Japan had a moral and legal right to her occupation of Manchuria, stated Mr. Gilmour. With a population of 70,000,000 people to feed, Japan must have an outlet and Manchuria was the logical solution. The history of Manchuria was one of Japanese investment and enterprise, Mr. Gilmour emphatically declared that by virtue of her government and development, China was not a sovereign nation— China did not have the first principle of sovereignty: good order and the power to maintain that order. 

The first negative speaker, Mr. McDonald, said that the province of Manchuria was racially and historically a part of China. The inhabitants spoke one dialect and in custom and manners they were one. Great Britain and the United States both considered Manchuria as a Chinese possession. The fact that 96 per cent of the population in Manchuria is Chinese was proof enough to establish ownership. “China, too.” said Mr. McDonald, ” needs an outlet.” Japan has broken five major treaties: the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905, the Sino-Japanese Treaty, the Nine Power Pact of 1922, the League Covenant, and the Pact of Paris. By these treaties Japan had agreed to evacuate Manchuria with the exception of a small territory to withdraw troop from this province to respect the territorial integrity of China- all of which she has disregarded. 

Mr. Parker,  the second affirmative speaker, showed that China is guilty of systematic persecution of the Japanese in Manchuria and that by a treaty of 1930, Japanese citizens were to be allowed to settle in certain districts. Conclusive proof showed that not only were the Japanese residents repeatedly threatened but likewise the owners, should they lease the land to Japanese citizens. The affirmative objected to Chinese boycott only when it was an instrument of national policy. Mr. Parker told of the chaotic internal condition of China and said the parts when the Japanese Government has influence were undoubtedly the best ordered. 

The last speaker, Mr. Dougald, replied to the question of the boycott by saying that the Chinese boycott was the sequel to the Japanese massacre of Chinese citizens. Japan’s only excuse for warfare was the ultimate-control of China by first getting Manchuria. Her plea of self-defense was only a petty subterfuge - she was ready at the slightest provocation for military aggression. The decision of the Judge brought the debate to a close.

[AL: Not a surprise that the ‘affirmative’ side of the debate, which deploys pro-setter colonialism arguments that would be familiar and celebrated by Canadians (especially the elite judges, military, prison and medical officers) won this exchange, even as the League of Nations condemned Japanese aggression in China.]

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Charles, Prince of the Isle (1828-1875)

read about him below!!

The long-awaited prince was born in 1828 to Queen Mary III and her husband, Prince Charles, the Earl of Statford. Queen Mary showered her son and heir in love and attention while ignoring her older daughters. Prince Charles recieved an extensive education which was overseen by his father. The young prince was intelligent, bright, and cheerful despite being sickly most of his life. After his father's death in 1847, the prince spent more time with his family, with his mother heavily relying on him during her mourning period. Charles attended the Imperial University of Windenburg from 1848-1850.

In 1852, Charles became engaged to Princess Sophie Alexandrine of Mannheim, his distant relative. Charles fell in love with her the previous summer while she was visiting relatives in San Myshuno. His mother, Queen Mary wanted her son to marry a bride from a country which had more prospects. Sophie Alexandrine was a minor princess whose second-cousin was the Grand Duke of Mannheim, who ruled a small insignificant country. The princess also lacked a dowry and was a few years past the marriagable age of the era (She was almost 25) . Despite this, Mary allowed her son to propose after months of convincing. Sophie Alexandrine arrived in Windenburg two months before the wedding was scheduled and resided with her relatives who had grace and favour apartments at Kingston Palace. The Prince would visit his future bride almost every single day with the company of a chaperone. The couple enjoyed long walks and playing music together, with the prince playing piano, and the princess playing the harp. A month before the wedding, Sophie Alexandrine suffered from a fever which would result in her death. Charles was devastated from the death of his betrothed and would never be the same again. The prince demanded that Sophie Alexandrine have a funeral as if she was a Princess of the Isle, which Queen Mary agreed with. The Princess was buried at the Royal Burial Ground in San Myshuno, despite not yet being a member of the royal family. The court remained in mounring for eight weeks.

Queen Mary described her poor son as "a shell of his former self". The Prince refused to eat anything for days at a time and would never leave his apartments for months. The prince began to lose a considerable amount of weight causing Queen Mary to worry for her son. As the years went by, Charles gradually recovered from the death of his fiance. Most Windenburgians assumed that Charles would never marry and would later be succeeded by his younger brother, Edward who had gotten married in 1857. In 1863, Prince Edward became gravely ill with the Bricehster Flu, remaining bedridden for weeks. Prince Edward eventually recovered, but the Queen used this situation to urge Charles to marry. After two months, the Prince eventually relented and allowed his mother and sisters to find a potential bride. After rejecting many suitors, Princess Odette suggested her husband's cousin, Infanta Maria Christina of Selvadorada. The bride was beautiful and well educated, and like her husband enjoyed music. After meeting twice in Champes Les Sims, the couple became engaged that year.

In 1863, at the age of 35, the Prince was married to Infanta Maria Christina of Selvadorada. The Prince's mood initially became better after his marriage to the infanta, however Maria Christina gave birth to a stillbirth daughter on the anniversary of Sophie Alexandrine's death, leaving the Prince in a state of severe depression. In 1866, Maria Christina gave birth to a daughter, Princess Alexandra who would later on become Queen Alexandra II. Charles was delighted by the birth of his daughter and would spend an extraordinary amount of time with her. In 1869, Maria Christina suffered from a difficult pregnancy which would result in her death. Maria Christina gave birth to twins, Prince Henry, and Princess Charlotte. Maria Christina died in labor, and her son would die the next day. Charles was heartbroken after the death of his wife and son, and secluded himself away from court. Charles would never return, and spent most of his time at Dunkeld Palace in Victoria. The Prince rarely saw his children as they reminded him of his deceased wife.

In 1870, the Prince was remarried to Princess Adelaide of Brichester, a cousin of his first wife. Although Charles never wanted to marry again, his overbearing mother encouraged the match and stressed the importance of having a mother figure in her granddaughters lives. The prince ignored his new wife and continued to live seperately from her in Victoria. In the absence of their father, Princess Adelaide raised Alexandra and Charlotte herself, overseeing their education and wellbeing. In 1875, Charles succumbed to a fever and died alone at his lodge in Victoria. His daughter, Alexandra became heir to the throne and would succeed her grandmother, Queen Mary II, as the new Queen of Windenburg in 1885.

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Rip of the week: 21/10/2024

Through the Bad Apples!!

Season 8 No Album Release Bad Apple!! (UK Version) - Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story

Ripped by Ellie53 (@ellie53real)

While the SiIvaGunner channel comes with a lot of repeating gags and bits, the ways in which they employ these can vary a fair bit. The channel's foundational meme, the ever-present funny Flintstone man Grand Dad which I wrote about on Waluigi Pinball (Beta Mix), is a simple leitmotif of just 15 notes, which makes it incredibly flexible; it can be employed as a standalone joke as practice for greenhorn rippers, or be wormed into the middle of more complex project. Memes like We Are Number One meanwhile have a very funny sound to them, yet require a lot of time and care to get to sound as good as rips like Robbie's Rotten Mine or Ska Cha Cha (Rotten Mix). And then, on the side of the spectrum completely opposite to Grand Dad, we have the jokes that feel more like a complete and total flex on the part of the ripper employing them. These "bits" are the ones that aren't necessarily reoccurring due to being funny, but rather due to being bangers with a complexity inherent to their composition, which makes any rip employing them feel like a big event. The main example would be Final Fantasy VII's One Winged Angel as featured on rips like I will Never be a Redneck, yet perhaps just as impressive are rips utilizing Dragonforce's legendary Through the Fire and Flames; rips like, indeed, Through the Bad Apples!!.

Made legendary through Guitar Hero III, Through the Fire and Flames is a song known far and wide across the internet; a piece of mainstream music that pierces through to the most shut-in of nerds due to the gaming legacy tied to it. It was the ultimate challenge for play in the ultimate Guitar Hero release, an absolutely unmissable part of pop culture of the 7th generation of gaming, and of course an absolute shredding banger in its own right. It's a natural fit for the SiIvaGunner channel, and ever since around ~Season 5 or so it's seen a pretty notable uptick in appearances - you may remember my writing of the legendary Through the F​-​F​-​Fire and the F​-​F​-​Flames, championing its ripper for his incredible ambitions and efforts made to make the rip feel as complete as it does. Its the typical fun of SiIvaGunner arrangement rips, the age-old question of how to transfer one song's intensity into the framework of a different song or video game's sound; Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement), FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE, and of course medley rips like SNES Mini Circulation all show just why it's such an appealing prospect. And so, we've seen a fair few rips aiming to do just what Through the F​-​F​-​Fire and the F​-​F​-​Flames did: take the legendary song and rearrange it in the style of a different game.

In large part, that is what Through the Bad Apples!! also does to great effect, imbuing the track with the distinct sound of the Touhou franchise. You can read the entries on W.E. Are Number One? and Beautiful! ~ Curveball of Sean Kingston to learn more about it, but to keep it concise it's a sound that I very much admire and enjoy despite having very little knowledge of the Touhou series as a whole. One Touhou song I'm most DEFINITELY aware of, however, is Bad Apple!! - perhaps the series' most virally spread anthem, and one that I officially fell in love with all the way back in Season 3 of SiIvaGunner through Imperial Touwer. It is, in many ways, a song just as legendary and known to the video game mainstream - if not moreso - as Through the Fire and Flames. And so, in some sense, it was only logical for Through the Bad Apples!! to instead flip things on its head.

Indeed, the rip isn't an arrangement of the Dragonforce track kept to the soundscape of Touhou 4; uniquely, it's instead the other way around, an arrangement of Bad Apple!! using the instrumental sound of Through the Fire and Flames. Upon relistening to Through the Fire and Flames a few times before writing this post, I had forgotten just how video game-y the original track actually already sounds, with a chirpy synth accentuating several key moments of the performance that just oozes 90s video games. As a result, the two tracks feel closer to one another than you'd once think; and Through the Bad Apples!! as a result manages to feel less like a straight interpretation of one into the other, and more like an even blend of the two sounds.

I'm yet to cover much of what Ellie53 has done on SiIvaGunner before this post, but she's been a constant presence on the channel since the tail end of Season 5, no doubt soon becoming aware of the rising prominence of Through the Fire and Flames rips. She's also tinkered around with Bad Apple!! in particular with Maçã Ruim!! back in Season 7; and so, I suppose it only makes sense that one would eventually put the pieces together and try their hand at mixing the two into one. Through the Bad Apples!! feels WELL worth the wait and is a shining example of Ellie53's growth as a ripper, and I'm hopeful that Through the Fire and Flames sticking around on SiIvaGunner for the foreseeable future can continue to inspire rippers just like Ellie53 to keep finding new ways to experiment with its sound.

Long live Dragonforce!

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Isla Kingston, breton, main Vestige, magsorc

My babygirl I've had since the start of ESO who's had too much stuff happen to her to list it all out so I guess like. summary? (spoilers for like all of eso and dlcs)

orphan raised in the imperial city until she left as a teenager right before the soulburst. met the boy who would be the breton hero and adventured with him. had a small falling out that ended with her getting killed and vestige'd and him going to war

does the main quest and DC, falls for darien and gets with him, loses him after the main quest but was pregnant with his kid and names the daughter Phoebe. continues on with all the alliance storylines and dlcs being an absent mother until summerset. elopes with darien, tells him about the kid, loses him again and swears off being a hero because people close to her always die.

abnur drags her back for elsweyr, she reunites with the breton hero sebastien but he isn't ready to return to normal life yet after the trauma of dying, she tries to retire again after abnur dies. comes back Again after undaunted stuff leads her back into being a hero. keeps going with heroing until deadlands where she finally snaps about losing people and never having her boundaries respected (really hates daedra from her upbringing and history, and despises lyranth now).

contacts seb for help after she says she cant do it anymore without someone who can understand the real her, he finally comes out of hiding and announces he isnt dead. his godfather emeric gets him a job working with lady arabelle. they both do high isle and galen together.

seb steps in for her to do the main quest in necrom because she refuses to make a deal with mora and step into apocrypha and he didnt want to force her to break that boundary yet again. they do west weald together as a couple

pics of her various outfits through the years below the cut

baby isla, main quest through clockwork city, 19-22

summerset isla, 23

elsweyrs isla who just wanted to retire but abnur ruins everything, 27

greymoor "akatosh please let me retire" and markarth "no i didnt call you dad, verandis" isla, 29

blackwood "i swear if lyranth betrays us im going to fight you all" isla, 30

deadlands "what did i fucking tell yall, also i hate the deadlands" isla, 30

high isle and galen "what do you mean you send people to an island that explodes them, emeric?" isla, 31.

necrom "nope im not fucking making a deal with hermaeus mora- dammit seb" isla, 32

and most recently, west weald "aedric girl autumn" isla, 33

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Julius Scott’s legendary study tells [...] of the unrest of “masterless” communities, as he terms them, in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean and its implications for the Atlantic World. This unrest was undergirded by what he terms a “common wind” of seditious political news circulating through an increasingly mobile and interconnected region. He deftly sets the context [...] to imperial tensions that culminated in uprisings and revolutions within [...] the French, British, and Spanish Empires. [...] He builds what is this field-defining work from a triangulated analysis of three central hubs of the colonial Caribbean in terms of [...] prosperity in the plantation economy, and political importance to these aforementioned empires: Saint-Domingue [Haiti], Jamaica, and Cuba. But he also explores similar occurrences within [...] Martinique and Guadeloupe for the French, Venezuela and Trinidad for the Spanish, and Dominica and Grenada for the British. He also includes [...] the engagement of the newly formed United States in this network, reinforcing the broader Atlantic impact of the common wind’s radical currents.

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Chapter 1 explores the upheaval afoot in the mid-1700s colonial Caribbean through a closer look at the movements of a range of actors including enslaved runaways, military deserters, contraband smugglers, free people of color, and poor whites hustling in the islands’ urban centers and surrounding countrysides.

A variety of settings - including the fringes of plantations, maroon settlements, town-based markets, taverns, hospitals, barracks, and wharves - might presumably, if read with the archival grain, illuminate the map of state control. Instead, in Scott’s analysis, these represent the contours of the working class’s unlawful movements and ultimately their fraying of the colonial order, anticipating what Stephanie M. H. Camp [...] would aptly name [...] the “rival geography” of slave society.

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Chapter 2 shows how sailors’ illicit forms of mobility [...] blurred the bounds between land and sea in this narrative of popular dissent. Their movements [...] as social beings and political dissidents bled into and helped sustain similar kinds of illicit commerce and socializing [...]. Chapters 3 and 4 demonstrate how the common wind consistently blew subversive ideas into and around the Caribbean, much to officials’ chagrin. Scott here homes in on the politically volatile era from the late 1770s through the late 1790s, which saw declarations of war, drastic changes in slavery policy [...] and the emergence of U.S., French, and, most significantly, Haitian revolutionary uprising. [...] [E]nslaved communities everywhere in the region followed as intently as they could as the campaign of the enslaved rebels in Saint-Domingue began in 1791. [...] Political news, no matter how hard officials in the colonies and the metropoles tried to block it, spilled into all levels of society [...]. What flowed through all of these channels animated questions about master-slave relations, mercantilist policy, individual rights [...]. Scott carefully traces the influence of the unfolding Haitian Revolution on well-planned but eventually thwarted uprisings of enslaved people in the Venezuelan port city Coro, the Dutch colony of Curaçao, and the parish of Pointe Coupee in then Spanish Louisiana, all in 1795. He also illuminates the multiple instances of inspiration in the 1790s evidenced in enslaved communities throughout the United States [...].

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Essentially Scott reveals that the Age of Revolutions cannot be understood without comprehending black resistance in times of war and peace. The tale of Phebe, one of many enslaved Jamaican female runaways who became an itinerant higgler hiding in plain sight in urban spaces like Kingston, or the story of the 1790 mutiny of four enslaved sailors who overtook the Saint Kitts sloop the Nancy with respective origins in the Caribbean, West Africa, and the U.S. South, which Scott called a “microcosm” of the Atlantic, are but two of multiple narratives he includes to show that enslaved people [...] actively built and sustained those circuits via their multilingualism, their savvy, and above all their dedication to achieving a state of masterlessness [...].

This could be achieved not just through formal manumission processes, but through running away and re-creating new lives and livelihoods [...]. The [...] knowledge that these dissidents obtained in their labors allowed them to escape to lives not “off the grid,” but rather in the centers of commercial and state activity, ensconced in communities of opposition and poised to obtain news that prepared them well for their next moves in their albeit precarious existence. [...]

Scott complicates earlier framings of the oppositional working class as strictly of European origin [...]; [...] Scott’s unpublished dissertation [...] influenced the interventions made in Linebaugh and Rediker’s The Many-Headed Hydra [...] years later. [...] He centers enslaved people within the revolutionary Atlantic not just as workers [...] but also as strategic thinkers, and he does so long before it was popular to do so in this field of history. [...] [H]e demonstrates how so many ordinary enslaved women and men regularly engaged in quotidian forms of fugitivity across various imperial territories of the Caribbean [...]. The dissertation also came several years in advance of the still pivotal call advanced by Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s 1995 Silencing the Past, about the denied centrality of the Haitian Revolution to the Age of Revolutions in its time and in retrospect. Scott’s work undeniably influenced many Atlantic historians [...]; it is also a genuinely exciting read.

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All text above by: Natasha Lightfoot. "The Common Wind: A Masterful Study of the Masterless Revolutionary Atlantic". The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 3, pages 926-930. June 2020. At: doi dot org slash 10.1093/ahr/rhaa230 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

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Happy Birthday, Haile Selassie I, Negusa Nagast , Seyoume Igziabeher, By the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Elect of God,

RAS TAFARI!

In Jamaica, Shortly after the coronation of the Emperor Haile Selassie I, belief in the divinity of Haile Selassie began. A black king had risen in the east, a messiah had come to deliver his people. The legend of Emperor Haile Selassie grew after years of personally fighting and eventually defeating a European colonial power.

One hundred thousand Rastafari from all over Jamaica descended on Palisadoes Airport in Kingston to greet Haile Selassie when he visited Jamaica on April 21, 1966. Clouds of Ganja smoke covered the scene. Selassie started down the stairs, but returned, uneasy with the commotion as the crown rushed the tarmac. A well-known Rasta leader, Ras Mortimer Planno was recruited to negotiate the emperor's descent. Planno was able to calm the crowd and help the emperor exit the plane. This event is commemorated by Rastafari as Grounation Day every year on April 21.

At the time Bob Marleys new bride, Rita had relayed to Bob how she had seen stigmata on the hands of the Emperor as he walked the stairs down from his plane. This greatly contributed to Bob's conversion to Rasta and its subsequent global exposure.

On the flight to Jamaica he was asked if he would deny being god to the Rasta. He replied, "Who am I to disturb their belief?"

Jamaican authorities would have liked Selassie to deny divinity to the Rasta. This didn't happen and Selassie actually gave gold medallions to the Rasta leaders, the only gifts of the trip. This after famously giving away lions on his trip to Europe.

In a 1967 CBC recorded an interview with Haile Selassie in which he denied his alleged divinity. On being told, "There are millions of Christians throughout the world, your Imperial Majesty, who regard you as the reincarnation of Jesus Christ," Haile Selassie replied in his native language,

"I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I will be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that a human being is emanated from a deity."

After his return to Ethiopia he sent an Archbishop to the Caribbean help draw Rastafari and other West Indians to the Ethiopian church. People resented the former colonial churches and were interested in establishing the Ethiopian Church in the Caribbean. The Emperor obliged and the church exists to this day.

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OC Halloween Challenge 2023

Day 4 - Twisted

What if meeting Mattheo had led Juliette down a dark path after all? (This draws inspo from my previous Bonnie and Clyde AU headcanons)

- Following the death of her boyfriend, Cedric, Juliette had become a shell of herself. All that remained was untethered anger

- Mattheo, having grown to almost crave the sense of power that being so feared gave him, only saw that the person he wanted was in a vulnerable position, easy to manipulate. Nobody could get through to him once he set his sights on what he wanted

- It was almost too easy. Juliette had a legacy to uphold and Mattheo had the ability to promise that fame to her and more

- Her excellent potions skills come in handy. She invents a serum that works almost like the imperious curse

- She met the Dark Lord the summer before her seventh year after leaving home

- Though she did not return to Hogwarts with the dark mark, she soon become as feared as Mattheo. She was a dark princess, no longer underestimated. Despite Mattheo’s promises, she left the quidditch team. She had higher ambitions now

- She received the dark mark on graduation night, given to her by Mattheo himself

- Her first kill during the battle of Hogwarts was childhood friend, Kingston Chance

- She is killed by none other than Owen Bishop during the last hours of battle

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The absolute clusterfuck journey of the Russian Baltic Fleet around the world to fight in the Russo-Japanese War, culminating in them being sunk at the Tsushima Straights before even reaching Port Arthur. It's a tragedy, but also really funny how dismal the performance was.

The ship was infamous for its actions during the voyage of the Second Pacific Squadron, where it precipitated the Dogger Bank incident.[1] It also was involved in numerous other incidents including misidentifications of neutral vessels as Japanese torpedo boats and mistakenly firing at [and hitting] the Russian cruiser Aurora [killing one Russian sailor and an Orthodox priest]. While stopping in Madagascar several ships in the fleet acquired several local predatory animals, Kamchatka being no exception. The ship was lost with all hands when it was sunk in 1905 during the Battle of Tsushima to Japanese shell fire.

The Dogger Bank incident:

The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats[1] and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée.[2] Two British fishermen died, six more were injured, one fishing vessel was sunk, and five more boats were damaged.[3] On the Russian side, one sailor and a Russian Orthodox priest aboard the cruiser Aurora caught in the crossfire were killed.[3]

Short video with more random "comedy" bits:

Long video by Drachinifel, which goes into more detail about the many, many clusterfucks (disproportionately caused by the Kamchatka). Watchable at least 1.5x (he speaks slowly) and still okay at 2x.

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Internships vs. Part-Time Jobs: Which One is Better for Your Career?

Choosing between an internship and a part-time job can be challenging for students and young professionals. Both options provide valuable work experience, but their impact on career growth varies. Understanding the differences can help you make an informed decision.

1. Understanding Internships and Part-Time Jobs

Internships are short-term work experiences designed to provide hands-on training in a specific field. They may be paid or unpaid and often align with a student’s academic studies.

Part-time jobs involve consistent work with a fixed schedule, usually offering financial compensation. They are common in retail, customer service, and administrative roles.

2. Skill Development and Learning

Internships focus on industry-specific skills, allowing students to gain experience related to their career goals. They offer mentorship, networking opportunities, and exposure to professional environments.

Part-time jobs develop transferable skills such as communication, time management, and teamwork. These skills are valuable but may not be industry-specific.

3. Career Advancement Opportunities

Internships can lead to full-time employment in the same organization. Employers often hire interns who have demonstrated potential and dedication.

Part-time jobs provide steady income but may not always contribute to long-term career growth unless they are in a relevant field.

4. Networking and Industry Exposure

Internships offer direct access to industry professionals, increasing the chances of building strong professional connections.

Part-time jobs involve limited networking opportunities, as they are usually not industry-focused.

5. Financial Benefits

Internships may be unpaid or offer a stipend, making financial sustainability a challenge for some students.

Part-time jobs provide regular income, helping students cover expenses while studying.

6. Workload and Time Management

Internships often require flexible hours but may demand significant commitment, especially during peak learning periods.

Part-time jobs have fixed schedules, which can sometimes clash with academic responsibilities.

7. Which One Should You Choose?

If your goal is career advancement, an internship is the better option as it provides relevant experience and networking opportunities.

If you need financial stability, a part-time job is ideal for earning a steady income.

If possible, consider combining both, working part-time while completing an internship to gain the best of both worlds.

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Conclusion

Both internships and part-time jobs have their unique advantages. The right choice depends on your career aspirations, financial needs, and available time. Prioritizing experience that aligns with your future career goals will help you gain a competitive edge in the job market.

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Did Anne Boleyn plot Princess Mary’s death?

Only according to Chapuys, as far as I’m aware. There are some other contemporaries that say this, but they directly cite the ‘Imperial ambassador in England’ as their source.

 She said, the day before she was executed, and when they came to lead her to the scaffold, that she did not consider that she was condemned by Divine judgment, except for having been the cause of the ill-treatment of the Princess, and for having conspired her death.

But, you know, the above is his letter to Granvelle (where he tended to send his more unsubstantiated reports, vs his direct letters to the Emperor… I think the assumption here has been his source was Lady Kingston, but since he doesn’t suggest the identity of the source, we don’t truly know) ; and the context is that he has been reporting that Anne has been plotting her death by poison or other means since 1533 (‘give her too much dinner), it makes sense he would have a vested interest in vindicating his own earlier reports. And he can have the final word, since, at the time of this report, she’s dead. There’s another later, secondary account that Lady Kingston, when she was visiting Mary that month, personally delivered a final message from Anne seeking her forgiveness.

It’s been suggested that during her trial, one of the accusations was that she had attempted or plotted to poison Mary (I can’t recall atm if there is a primary source substantiating that, or if it’s speculation based on Henry reportedly believing so via Chapuys, again), but given she ‘cleared herself of the same’ (ie, all accusations), it doesn’t sound like she admitted any such thing. ‘Ill-treatment’ could compass… much, I could see Anne expressing regret about her less ‘Christian’ actions towards her stepdaughter, perhaps with the knowledge that her brother had died, that she would soon die, and Mary would thus be Elizabeth’s most powerful family member save the King, in hope that this expressed remorse would be passed onto her; that she would not vent her hatred for her onto her half-sister. Melita Thomas has speculated that this report is true, but that it referred to Anne wishing for her stepdaughter to be executed for her defiance of the statutes of the realm compassing Henry’s authority over the Church of England and herself and Elizabeth’s legitimacy, not any actual plots to poison her.

She might have confessed to having wished her dead and desired to be shriven; but I don’t know if this is something she would have spoken of on her final walk, it seems more like something for the confessional (and Chapuys does speak earlier of what she confessed in front of William Kingston, but doesn’t include this, so… things that make you go hmmm).

I know it’s become common to take Chapuys at face value about the Boleyn executions and their final days, but he’s also the only person that claimed George ‘denounced his heresies’ on the scaffold. I believe it does speak volumes that he believed in their innocence (insofar as what they were actually charged with— or really, more like the Crown’s failure to prove its case); but otherwise I don’t necessarily lend more credence to his reports in these matters as I do to his at other times.

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"The first public reference to Klan activity in Canada appeared in the Montreal Daily Star, which announced the organization of a branch of ‘the famous Ku Klux Klan’ in Montreal in 1921, and reported that ‘a band of masked, hooded and silent men’ had gathered in the northwest part of the city behind the Mountain. In 1921, the Klan set up an office in West Vancouver, and British Columbia newspapers began to publish solicitations for Klan membership. KKK crosses were sighted burning across New Brunswick: in Fredericton, Saint John, Marysville, York, Carleton, Sunbury, Kings, Woodstock, and Albert. James S. Lord, the sitting member of the New Brunswick legislature for Charlotte County, becamea highly publicized convert. Later the Klan would infiltrate Nova Scotia, burning ‘fiery crosses’ on the lawn of the Mount Saint Vincent Convent, and in front of St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church at Melville Cove near Halifax’s North-West Arm.

Reports of Klan activities surfaced in Ontario as well, where white American organizer W.L. Higgitt began a tour in Toronto in 1923. In the summer of 1924, a huge Klan gathering took place in a large wooded area near Dorchester. Cross-burning, designed to intimidate the village’s few Black residents, was carried out with great pomp and ceremony. In Hamilton in 1924, police arrested a white American named Almond Charles Monteith in the act of administering initiation rites to two would-be Klanswomen. Monteith was later charged with carrying a loaded revolver. Along with the revolver, police confiscated a list of thirty-two new members (‘some of them prominent citizens’), correspondence regarding thirty-six white robes and hoods, and a $200 invoice for expenses for ‘two fiery crosses.’ Monteith denied any involvement in recent cross-burnings on Hamilton Mountain, and was convicted on the weapons charge. The day after Monteith’s conviction, the arresting officer received a letter bearing a terse message: ‘Beware. Your days are numbered. KKK.’ Monteith’s conviction did nothing to put a crimp in the Klan’s membership drive. Between four hundred and five hundred members paraded through Hamilton in a KKK demonstration in the fall of 1929.

By June 1925 there were estimates of eight thousand Klan members in Toronto; headquarters were installed in Toronto’s Excelsior Life Building. The summer of 1925 witnessed hundreds of crosses burned across Chatham, Dresden, Wallaceburg, Woodstock, St Thomas, Ingersoll, London, and Dorchester. A group of hooded Klansmen tried to proceed en masse through the chapel of a London church to show their appreciation of the anti-Catholic address that had been delivered to the congregation. At a rally of more than two hundred people at Federal Square in London, J.H. Hawkins, claiming to be the Klan’s ‘Imperial Klailiff,’ proclaimed:

‘We are a white man’s organization and we do not admit Jews and colored people to our ranks. [ … ] God did not intend to create any new race by the mingling of white and colored blood, and so we do not accept the colored races.’

More than one thousand showed up at a similar rally in Woodstock.

At what was billed as the ‘first open-air ceremony of the Klan’ in Canada, two hundred new members were initiated at the Dorchester Fairgrounds in October 1925, in front of more than one thousand avid participants. The ‘first Canadian Ku Klux burial’ took place in London the next year, as robed and hooded Klansmen, swords at their sides and fiery crosses at hand, showed up to perform a ritual at the graveside of one of the Drumbo Klan. Ontario chapters sprang up in Niagara Falls, Barrie, Sault Ste Marie, Belleville, Kingston, and Ottawa. New headquarters appeared in a Vancouver mansion in 1925, and local chapters called ‘Klaverns’ sprang into existence in New Westminster, Victoria, Nanaimo, Ladysmith, and Duncan. Klan bonfires lit up Kitsilano Point. By 1928, the Vancouver Klan was soliciting signatures for a petition to demand that Asian Canadians be banned from employment on government steamships. A ‘Great Konklave’ was held in June 1927 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where an estimated ten thousand people stood by as hooded Klansmen burned a sixty-foot cross and lectured to them on the risks of racial intermarriage. Demanding an immediate ban on marriage between white women and ‘Negroes, Chinese or Japanese,’ the Klan proclaimed: ‘one flag, one language, one race, one religion, race purity and moral rectitude.’ The Saskatchewan group would later disaffiliate from Eastern Canada, to create an entirely separate western wing that was credited with signing up 25,000 members. In Alberta, ‘Klaverns’ came into existence in Hanna, Stettler, Camrose, Forestburg, Jarrow, Erskine, Milo, Vulcan, Wetaskiwin, Red Deer, Ponoka, Irma, and Rosebud. Alberta membership peaked between 5,000 and 7,000, but the Klan newspaper, The Liberator, produced out of Edmonton, purported to maintain a circulation of 250,000. Nor were the activities of the Klan restricted to rallies and cross-burnings. In 1922, the Klan was linked to a rash of torchings that wreaked more than $100,000 damage upon three Roman Catholic institutions: the Quebec Cathedral, the rest-house of the Sulpician order at Oka, Quebec, and the junior seminary of the Fathers of the Blessed Sacrament in Terrebonne. In 1922, threatening letters signed by the Klan were delivered to St Boniface College in Winnipeg. Before the year was out, the college burned to the ground, causing the death of ten students. In 1923, similar letters, signed by the Klan, were sent to local police and Roman Catholic authorities in Calgary. In Thorold, Ontario, the KKK intervened in a local murder investigation in 1922, issuing a warning to the town mayor to arrest an Italian man suspected of the crime by a specified date or face the fury of the Klan. The letter continued: ’The clansmen of the Fiery Cross will take the initiative in the Thorold Italian section. Eighteen hundred armed men of the Scarlet Division are now secretly scouring this district and await the word to exterminate these rats.’ In 1922, the Mother Superior of a Roman Catholic orphanage in Fort William received a letter signed ‘K.K.K.’ threatening to ‘burn the orphanage.’ The mayor of Ottawa was mailed a vitriolic letter, demanding he pay more attention ‘to Protestant taxpayers’ or the Klan would take ‘concerted action.’ Two Klansmen stole and destroyed religious paraphernalia from the tabernacle of the St James Roman Catholic church near Sarnia. The Ancaster Klan attempted to intimidate the African Brotherhood of America from erecting a home for ‘colored children and aged colored folk.’

The Belleville Klan visited the office of the Belleville Intelligencer, demanding that the manager dismiss a Catholic printer employed by the paper. The Sault Ste Marie Klan launched a concerted campaign to force the big steel mills to fire their Italian workers. A rifle bullet was fired at George Devlin during a wedding reception in Sault Ste Marie, with a blazing cross left behind to claim responsibility for the act. In 1924, local Klansmen surrounded the Dorchester home of a white man believed to be married to a Black woman. Threats were made to burn a cross outside the house of a white Bryanstown resident reputed to be involved with a Black woman. In 1927, several crosses were burned on the lawn of a white family believed to be running a brothel in Sault Ste Marie. The family was forced to flee their home.

Klan activities were also responsible for the removal of a francophone Roman Catholic postmaster in Lafleche, Alberta. The Alberta Klan promoted boycotts of Catholic businesses. The Drumheller KKK, which boasted a membership embracing forty of the town’s most prominent businessmen and mine owners, burned a cross on the lawn of a local newspaper columnist after he wrote a satirical comment about the Klan. Alberta Klansmen used bullets and flaming crosses to try to intimidate members of the Mine Workers Union of Canada during their bitter labour dispute in the Crow’s Nest Pass. Lacombe Klansmen wrote to the editor of the Alberta Western Globe after he opposed the Klan, threatening ‘severe punishment including the burning of his house and business to the ground.’ The same group kidnapped, and tarred and feathered a local blacksmith.

Throughout these activities, white police and fire marshals stood by, often present at the incendiary meetings and cross-burnings, content to reassure themselves there was ‘no danger.’ Despite the widespread evidence of lawlessness, Klan authorities tended to claim official disengagement whenever there was property damage or personal injury. Eschewing responsibility, they insisted that their organization had nothing to do with such events. Remarkably, the authorities largely respected these assertions of innocence, concluding that, without definitive proof that would tie named Klan officials to specific threatening letters or violent deeds, nothing further could be ascertained. Apart from the arrest and conviction of Almond Charles Monteith for possessing an unauthorized revolver, the only Klan event that attracted legal attention was the dynamiting of St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Barrie, Ontario, in 1926. On the evening of 10 June 1926, a stick of dynamite shattered the stained-glass windows and blasted a four-foot hole through the brick wall of Barrie’s St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church. Buffeted about by the explosion, Ku Klux Klan flyers were scattered throughout the street, strewn among the brick, glass, and wooden debris. Barrie was a major stronghold of Ku Klux Klan activity, and organizers had drawn a crowd of two thousand to watch hooded Klansmen conduct a ritual cross-burning on a hill outside of Barrie several weeks earlier. At that ceremony, thirty-year-old William Skelly, a shoemaker who had emigrated one year earlier from Ireland, swore fealty to the tenets of the Klan, to uphold Protestant Christianity and white supremacy. He was initiated as a member in good standing. It was Skelly whom the police arrested for the bombing days later.

Skelly voluntarily admitted his Klan membership to the police, and confessed that, the night before the bombing, Klan members met to discuss ‘a job to be pulled off.’ There was a drawing of lots, and when Skelly drew the ‘Fiery Cross,’ he realized he was the designated man. Skelly claimed that he was intimidated by fellow Klansmen, who ‘made [him] drunk with dandelion wine and alcohol,’ and forced him to carry out the deed under threat of bodily harm. In fact, he told the police, he had joined the Klan in the first place only because he ‘had had considerable difficulty in securing steady work,’ and was told that, if he joined, the Klan ‘would look after him,’ finding him employment. Skelly also implicated two other Barrie Klan officials, Klan ‘Kleagle’ William Butler and Klan Secretary Clare Lee. Criminal charges of causing a dangerous explosion, attempting to destroy property with explosives, and possession of explosives were laid against all three white Klansmen.

This time the Ontario attorney general’s office issued an official statement that ‘no group can take into its own hands the administration of the law.’ The white deputy attorney general, Edward J. Bayly, became involved personally when he made arrangements for a leading white Toronto barrister, Peter White, KC, to prosecute the trio on behalf of the Crown. Skelly, Butler, and Lee were all found guilty at a jury trial in October, and sentenced to five, four, and three years, respectively. Officials from the Toronto headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan denied all responsibility, claiming throughout that Skelly ‘acted on his own initiative,’ despite all the evidence to the contrary." - Constance Backhouse, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. pg. 183-193.

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Famed Hobgoblin Spurs Jamaican Covering

In 1690, Jamaica was embroiled in a covering sparked by an elite hobgoblin known as "The Devil of Spanish Town." The hobgoblin was said to be an unnaturally large and formidable creature, that roamed the streets of Jamaica's capital. When the hobgoblin emerged on the nights of full moons, the citizens of Spanish Town were driven to flee their homes.

This fear of the creature reportedly drove several of the natives of Jamaica to appeal to British forces for help. The British responded to the Hobgoblin’s terrifying presence by laying siege to Spanish Town and capturing the creature.

News of the capture spread throughout the Caribbean, and some people began to speculate that the British had saved Kingston by capturing the fearsome hobgoblin. The fear of the hobgoblin allegedly caused widespread panic among the citizens of Spanish Town, leading to the covering and its subsequent obliteration.

The event led to the fortification of the British presence in Jamaica, and the Hobgoblin of Spanish Town became a symbol of British resilience and military might. The capture of the hobgoblin also marked the end of the first major British military engagement in the Caribbean, which set a precedent for further expanding Britain's influence throughout the region.

The capture of the hobgoblin is remembered as a milestone in Jamaican - and Caribbean - history, as it signaled the start of a new era of militarism and imperialism. Although the event has largely disappeared from collective memory, the Hobgoblin of Spanish Town has become a symbol of British dominance in the Caribbean.