#arbedo

[germanpostwarmodern]

Chiesa San Giuseppe (1967-69) in Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland, by Giampiero Mina

[worldsandemanations]

Chiesa San Giuseppe (1967-69) in Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland, by Giampiero Mina

[goldenrodgal]

[[Attachment: an audio clip of a segment from the Goldenrod Variety Show: Silver Conference Special.]] 

[[Buena starts. “This next battle will close out a whole bracket, folks!”

“This next battle will pit one of Goldenrod’s up-and-coming trainers, Mina Arbedo-Sasaki, against one of Olivine City’s sweetest new media personalities, Cookie Caramella,” Krystal continues.

“To recap, their third opponent forfeited their spot in the tournament after losing to Cookie.” Pryce seems slightly disdainful of the unnamed Dragon Trainer. “With Mina receiving a point for her opponent’s departure, either of these fine young trainers could make it to the top 16.”

“COME ON GOLDENROD!!!” Whitney hollers. “TAKE HOME THE CUP!!!”]]

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.30 (before 1930)

296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus. 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons. 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery. 1598 – The Spanish-held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. 1632 – The University of Tartu is founded. 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory. 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution. 1703 – The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force. 1758 – Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia. 1794 – Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. 1805 – Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized. 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation". 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4. 1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1900 – A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured. 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. 1908 – The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia. 1912 – The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan. 1916 – World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France. 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States. 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

[china70]

Nei, doch nöd bi eus I de schwyz, oder??

[deuceswildrockandroll]

UPCOMING SHOWS 2024

July 24 Camping Pedro, Agde (F)

July 31 Le Copacabana, Vias Plage

August 2 Villa Sepia, Mont Blanc (F)

August 6 La Koirium, Vias (F)

August 7 Tourb'art Café, Tourbes (F)

August 11 Camping Pedro, Agde (F)

August 13 L'escale, Grau d'Agde (F)

August 14 Le Copacabana, Vias Plage

August 15 Blablah Café, Pézenas (F)

August 16 Cinq Heures Quarante, Sommières (F)

August 24 Private Party (CH)

August 26 Private Party (HR)

September 26, Kleiner Wassermann, Basel

September 27 Smuggler's Pub, Oberwil

December 30, Private Party, Thun

PAST SHOWS 2024

January 26 Passbartout, Unterägeri

February 1 2. Faisse, Rheinfelden

February 9 Private Party, Basel

February 17 8Bar, Basel

February 24 S'Dörfli, Münchenstein

Febuary 29 Café du Commerce, Biel

March 1 Passbartout, Unterägeri

March 22 Smugglers Pub, Oberwil

March 8 Private Party (D)

March 10 Private Party (CH)

March 28 Oliver Twist, Sissach

April 25 Private Party

April 26 Noon Cafe, Laufen

April 27 Flohmarkt, Stein

May 10 WunderBar, Therwil

May 24 Kiosk-Art, Neuchatel

May 25 Restaurant Tipo, Aesch

May 31 Private Party, Zurich

June 1 8Bar, Basel

June 5 Keck Kiosk, Basel

June 6 Tschuppi's Wonderbar, Luzern

June 8 Chateau Boheme, Fribourg

June 14 La Spaggietta, Arbedo (Ti)

June 21 Tellplatz 3, Basel

June 28 Summer Blues, Basel

July 5 Noon Cafe, Laufen

Past Shows 2023

February 15 Bar King, Neuchâtel

March 17 Tschuppis Wonder Bar, Luzern (CH)

May 5 Schall und Rauch, Basel

May 6 Irsinn Bar, Basel

May 13 Friendship, Basel

May 20 Thunderbash, Lenzkirch (D)

May 27 Créations Frogaroo, Ailloncourt (F)

June 15 Private Party

June 24 Eldorado Bar, Biel

July 1 Café Flore, Basel

July 21 La Bodega, Marseillan Plage (F)

July 29 Shenanigans, Vias (F)

August 3 La Tamarissière (F)

August 4 Villa Sépia, Montblanc (F)

August 6 La Tamarissière (F)

August 9 Le Tourb'Art Café, Tourbes (F)

August 11 Les 2 Ramiers, Sète (F)

August 12 Shenanigans, Vias (F)

August 17 Private Party (F)

August 18 Rock Den Rumpel, Rheinfelden

August 19 Rock Den Rumpel, Rheinfelden

August 23 Café Bar La Strada, Birsfelden

August 25 Piazza Bar, Rheinfelden

August 26 Restaurant Lehnhof, Altdorf

September 1 Roxy Bar, Birsfelden

September 2 Marina, Basel

September 8 Hard Rock Hotel, Davos

September 9 Private Party

September 12 Rhygass Fescht

September 29 Oliver Twist, Sissach

October 6 Rock den Rumpel, Rheinfelden

October 7 Rock den Rumpel, Rheinfelden

October 20 Wunder-Bar, Therwil

October 21 Private Party

October 27 Piazza Bar, Rheinfelden

November 18 Café Flore, Basel

December 2 Private Party

December 5 Les 3 Singes, Mulhouse (F)

December 8 Roxy Bar, Birsfelden

December 16, 17 Sports Bar, Stoos

December 22 Piazza Bar, Rheinfelden

December 31 Sports Bar, Stoos

PAST SHOWS 2022

August 3 Keck Kiosk, Basel

August 27 Klybeckfest, Basel

September 17 Château Bohème, Fribourg

October 8 Army Vets MC, Müllheim (D)

October 14 OliverTwist Pub, Sissach

October 15 8Bar, Basel

October 22 SommerResidenz, Basel

October 28, 29 Carnival of Carnage, Allschwil

November 3 Kleiner Wassermann, Basel

November 4 Piazza Bar, Rheinfelden

December 3 Schall und Rauch, Basel

December 10 L'Art dans la Grange, Ailloncourt (F)

December 17 Phoenix Rockkeller, Muttenz (CH)

December 30, 31 Sports Bar, Stoos (CH)

[illustratus]

Battle of Arbedo

[chocolaarbedo]

Rose rosse per te! Così dice una canzone. Rose per San Valentino. Un dolce regalo!...#rose #regalo #cioccolato #rosedicioccolato #chocola #sanvalentino #arbedo https://www.instagram.com/p/CKTB4wzBuow/?igshid=99p94i7nulyk

[gfrino]

Va? Va? Vatema!!!! Adesso online!

Va? Va? Vatema!!!! Adesso online!

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[artstreetecture]

Chiesa di San Giuseppe

Street view Chiesa di San Giuseppe - 1969 by Giampiero Mina Browse our interactive map

[lifestyleofluxe]

[techmomma]

there’s a bunch of goofy context to this but basically I made this as a mascot for one of the admin chats at work. Arbedo the Torpedo. He lives in my nightmares now.

The cutest li’l weapon of mass destruction out there, tee-hee!

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/artofwarinmiddle00omanuoft/page/n7/mode/2up

CHAPTER I. THE TRANSITION FROM ROMAN TO MEDIAEVAL FORMS IN WAR (A.D. 378-582). Disappearance of the Legion. Constantine's reorganization. The German tribes. Battle of Adrianople. Theodosius accepts its teaching. Vegetius and the army at the end of the fourth century. The Goths and the Huns. Army of the Eastern Empire. Cavalry all-important . . . 3-14

CHAPTER II. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (A.D. 476-1066). Paucity of Data for the period. The Franks in the sixth century. Battle of Tours. Armies of Charles the Great. The Franks become horsemen. The Northman and the Magyar. Rise of Feudalism. The Anglo-Saxons and their wars. The Danes and the Fyrd. Military importance of the Thegnhood. The House- Carles. Battle of Hastings. Battle of Durazzo 15-27

CHAPTER III. THE BYZANTINES AND THEIR ENEMIES (A.D. 582-1071).

1. Character of Byzantine Strategy. Excellence of the Byzantine Army. Scientific study of the art of war. Leo's ' Tactica.' Wars with the Frank. With the Turk. With the Slav. With the Saracen. Border warfare of Christendom and Islam. Defence of the Anatolic Themes. Cavalry as a defensive force. Professional and unchivalrous character of Byzantine officers . . 28-38

2. Arms, Organization, and Tactics of the Byzantines. Reorganization of the Army of the Eastern Empire By Maurice. Its composition. Armament of the Horseman, A.D. 600-l000. Armament of the Infantry. Military Train and Engineers. The Officers. Cavalry tactics. Leo's ideal line of battle. Military Machines and their importance . . 38-48

CHAPTER IV.THE SUPREMACY OF FEUDAL CAVALRY (A.D. 1066-1346). Unscientific nature of feudal warfare. Consequences of head-long charges. Tactical arrangements. Their primitive nature. Non-existence of strategy. Weakness of Infantry. Attempts to introduce discipline. Rise of Mercenaries. Supreme importance of fortified places. Ascendency of the defensive. The Mediaeval siege. Improvement of the Arts of Attack and Defence of fortified places. General character. The Crusades ... . 49-61

CHAPTER V. THE SWISS (A.D. 1315-1515).

i. Their Character, Arms, and Organization.

The Swiss and the Ancient Romans. Excellence of system more important than excellence of generals. The column of pikemen. The halberdier. Rapidity of the movements of the Swiss. Defensive armour. Character of Swiss armies 62-69

2. Tactics and Strategy.

The 'Captains' of the Confederates. The Echelon of three columns. The 'Wedge' and the 'Hedgehog' formations 70-73

3. Development of Swiss Military Supremacy.

Battle of Morgarten. Battle of Laupen. Battle of Sempach. Battle of Arbedo. Moral ascendency of the Swiss. Battle of Granson. Battle of Morat. Wars of the last years of the fifteenth century 73-87

4. Causes of the Decline of Swiss Ascendency. The tactics of the Swiss become stereotyped. The Landsknechts and their rivalry with the Swiss. The Spanish Infantry and the short sword. Battle of Ravenna. Fortified Positions. Battle of Bicocca. Increased use of Artillery. Battle of Marignano. Decay of discipline in the Swiss Armies and its consequences 87-95

CHAPTER VI. THE ENGLISH AND THEIR ENEMIES (A.D. 1272-1485). The Long-bow and its origin, Welsh rather than Norman. Its rivalry with the Cross-bow. Edward I and the Battle of Falkirk. The bow and the pike. Battle of Bannockburn and its lessons. The_French Knighthood and the English Archery. Battle of Cressy Battle of Poictiers. Du Guesclin and the English reverses. Battle of Agincourt. The French wars, 1415-1453. Battle of Formigny. Wars of the Roses. King Edward IV and his generalship. Barnet and Tewkesbury. Towton and Ferrybridge . 96-123

CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSION. Zisca and the Hussites. The Waggon-fortress and the tactics depending on it. Ascendency and decline of the Hussites. Battle of Lipan. The Ottomans. Organization and equipment of the Janissaries. The Timariot cavalry. The other nations of Europe. Concluding remarks . . 124-134

[goldenrodgal]

[[an embedded video, taken from a real-ass video camera]]

[[A black screen. A man's voice can be heard, swearing quietly as he struggles to get the "damn cap" off the camera. He doesn't seem to notice he's recording.

"And after the break," an announcer says, "Our next semi-finals challenger will face her greatest challenge yet! Can Mina Arbedo-Sasaki possibly defeat-"

"Hey," says a woman's voice, recognizable as Sadie's. "Is that little green light supposed to bli-"]]

okay wow, glad we tried to test filming before mina's match at 7. this camera is so old, the cap just kinda fused to the lens.

i'll tell y'all how it went after, with highlights from the professionals.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.30

296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus. 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons. 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery. 1598 – The Spanish held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. 1632 – The University of Tartu is founded. 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory. 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution. 1703 – The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force. 1758 – Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia. 1794 – Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. 1805 – Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized. 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation". 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4. 1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1900 – A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured. 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. 1908 – The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia. 1912 – The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan. 1916 – World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France. 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States. 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country. 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners. 1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood. 1960 – Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). 1963 – Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo. 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God. 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system. 1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins. 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. 1989 – A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. 1990 – East and West Germany merge their economies. 1994 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board. 2007 – A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before. 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. 2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona. 2013 – Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. 2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths. 2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). 2021 – The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.

[griffinrampant]

Swiss National Day

The Swiss national coat of arms is exceptional. Not only is it clean and straightforward, but it’s so iconic that when the first international organization to nurse wounded soldiers was founded, they got their symbol (and name) from swapping the Swiss arms’ tinctures. It’s so famous that I feel a little ridiculous linking to it and giving its classic blazon of gules a cross couped argent. It’s so famous that the actual charge of a cross couped is sometimes known as the “Swiss cross.”

It’s not entirely clear which came first, the flag or the arms, but it kind of looks like the flag wins this one. The first documented use of the flag is from the Battle of Arbedo in 1422, while the first use of the arms (i.e. the design specifically on a shield) was on coins minted in 1533. It is possible that the arms were used in the Battle of Laupen in 1339, but I can’t find any direct evidence of that. This makes a certain amount of sense to me; arms tended to be personal, but flags aren’t necessarily as exclusive. The white-cross-on-red device seems to have originated as a symbol for the Old Swiss Confederacy that could be used by any of the member cantons, as opposed to the arms of a specific family. 

The Confederacy knew a good thing when it saw one, and the Swiss cross keeps showing up over the next 250 years, until - you probably know what’s coming - Napoleon. I acknowledge that he was probably the most brilliant general of his day, and an excellent politician and administrator, but the man had terrible taste in heraldry. From 1798 through 1803, the cross was supplanted by a seal depicting William Tell. I can’t decide if it got better or worse from 1803 through 1814; the Napoleonic Swiss Confederation used a plain shield with “XIX. Kantone” written on it, which is just kind of sad.

Mercifully, after the fall of the French Empire, the Federal Diet of Switzerland had the good sense to go back to the classic design, and it’s stuck around ever since. There was a brief kerfluffle in the late 1800s over whether the cross should be made up of five equal squares, or have a height/width ratio of 7:6, so the arms of the cross are slightly higher than they are wide. The 7:6 ratio was officially established in 1889, the same year the Federal Council published a history of the arms.

One final thing I want to mention: it’s fairly common to see heraldic arrangements of several coats of arms of component states surrounding the arms of the larger organization. The Holy Roman Empire did this a lot, and it also comes up occasionally in modern heraldry, with, say, the arrondissements of Paris surrounding the Parisian coat of arms, or the German national arms in the center of its states. The cantons of Switzerland are no exception. There are some records from the early sixteenth century showing the canton arms around the arms of the Holy Roman Empire, but 1547 marks the first recorded use of the Swiss cross as the central arms. I think that’s a pretty good marker of when the iconic white cross became widely accepted as a collective symbol.