#but only that he discoverd america

[cippicat]

Arno, Connor & Shay

Some of the main topics in AC Unity fandom are:

Did Arno knew that it was Shay who killed his father?

Why didn't Arno hunt Shay?

Did Arno and Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor Kenway met each other?

I think that these are very stupid questions, and I will explain you why IMHO.

I think that Arno, at some point of his life, discoverd about Shay Cormac, and that he was the murder of his father Charles Dorian.

Arno was a Master Assassin, and probably a future mentor, and can have access to many resources.

But he never hunted him down. Why ? It's quite easy, and the math will give us answers.

At the end of AC Rogue, Shay is 45 years old, while Arno is only 8 years old.

At the beginning of AC Unity, in 1789, Arno is 21 years old (it's the eve of the French Revolution). At the end of AC Unity, in 1794 (during the Thermidorian Reaction) and during the events of the DLC Dead Kings, Arno is 26 years old.

If Shay Cormac was still alive he would be 63 years old, in 1794. I think that Shay was still alive because of his nephew Cudgel Cormac who he trained to be a Templar spy.

I don't think that Arno found out about Shay so soon...

But if he discovered his identity so soon: how could a man of 63 fight against a young man of 26 (who has a sword of Eden by the way) ?

Shay wasn't like Connor, or Altair or Ezio. He hadn't so much ISU blood inside him.

Arno probably found out about Shay years later the end of Dead Kings, probably during the Napoleonic era. He decided to not hunt him down because he thought that Shay was already dead (which is extremely possible).

Last question.

Did Arno and Connor met each other?

No.

Why?

It's easy. After the end of AC Unity and Dead Kings, Connor was 38 years old, and had a wife and three children. Knowing him, I don't think he would have embarked for France, leaving his family, and the brotherhood, alone in America.

I think that perhaps they exchanged letters because Connor's name was well known in Europe.

[historicalbooknerd]

a look through all the differnt things my american public schooling system had/is making us learn

2nd grade- american colonies, american revolution and civil war

3rd grade- american colonies, american revolution and civil war

4th grade- american colonies, american revolution and civil war

5th grade- american colonies, american revolution, civil war and oregon trail

6th grade- mesopotamia and basic facts about greeks. not much detail goes into either besides what you could find on the wikipedia article

7th grade- american colonies, american revolution, and the constitution

8th grade- the entirety of the american industrial revolution through modern day america. every class only made it to the 1950’s before the school year ended.

freshman- get to choose world history or ap human geography.

sophomore- no social studies class required. most take ap european history or psychology if they are picking a class. this year there is one ap euro class with about 17 students out of a school with a population of around 1300

junior- american history or ap american history

senior- american government or ap american government

ya know, this is probably why americans don’t know shit about literally anything other than america, and even then their viewpoint is filtered through the ideals of the past and not the reality’s of the present. we are not the freest nation in the world, but since america had the title in 1776 and we never learned different, people think that the title stands dispite literally leading the world in most citizens incarcerated per capita.

[bobmccullochny]

History

July 1 1770 - Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history.

1819 - Johann Georg Tralles discoverd the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

1874 - The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.

1881 - The world's first international telephone call was made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1898 - The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba. (Spanish-American War)

1903 - The first Tour de France bicycle race began.

1908 - SOS was adopted as the international distress signal. Three dits, three dahs, and three dits - SOS is the only nine-element signal in Morse code.

1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture area and was dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan actually has the name "Tokyo" - that is, present-day Tokyo is not officially a city.

1963 - ZIP codes were introduced for US mail.

1965 - Maurice Masse, a farmer, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France said he was 'frozen' by aliens while investigating the strange noises they were making.

1971 - The Post Office Department (1792-1971) became the United States Postal Service

1972 - The first Gay Pride march in England took place.

1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman (in Japan).

1980 - O Canada officially became the national anthem of Canada.

1985 - A&E separated from sister channel Nickelodeon.

1984 - The PG-13 rating was introduced by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

1985 - Nike-at-Nite began on Nickelodeon

1991 - Court TV, which later became truTV, began airing in the US.

2007 - Smoking in England was banned in all public indoor spaces.

2007 - The Concert for Diana was held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries, on which would have been her 46th birthday.

[thesuperherooftheday]

THE KRONANS!!! During the time of the great king Gilgamesh, the Kronans AKA the Stone Men of Saturn, invaded Babylon in an attempt to conquer the Earth. They were stopped when a time Traveling Captain America helped thwart their plans. They were next encountered while invading Norway, by lame Amercian surgeon Dr. Donald Blake, while he was on vacation. They trapped him in a cave to keep him from alerting authorities. While in there, he discoverd the Mjoliuer, the fabled hammer of Thor and transformed into the Asgardian Thunder God. He defeated the Kronans after destroying their Mechano Monster with one blow of his hammer. The Kronans are orange, silicon based creatures who have a resemblance to Ben Grimm, the Thing. They weigh approximately 2000 lbs. They have no actual powers, only from their super-strength. They can also be destroyed by a strong enough blow which pulverizes them into pieces of rock.

First appearance Journey Into Mystery Vol. I #83 August 1962. Created byStan Lee, Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber.

[rebootrevolution]

X-Men Novelization (Ch. 27)

Chapter Twenty-Seven

On the other side of the globe, where nighttime spread across Siberia, Charles Xavier’s message penetrated the dreams of a farm boy named Piotr Rasputin. Piotr, just a couple years older than Kitty and Bobby, discoverd his powers almost a year before that dreaming night when Xavier’s voice appeared to him.

He would remember the day he discovered his powers all his life. He was on his family’s farm just outside Ust-Ordynsky doing a watercolor of the landscape. The air was crisp in his nostrils, and the familiar sound of his father’s combine sweeping across the field surrounded him. He was trying to paint around the combine, wanting to capture nature itself, but the dreaded thing kept creeping into his view. In amusement he would smile and call out to his father, but his father could not hear him. Then he saw his little sister, Illyana, walking across the field toward the combine’s path. She had her earbuds in, obsessed with music in those days, and seemed blithely unaware of the swirling blades bearing down on her.

Piotr charged straight through his easel, his legs pumping and burning as he raced toward his sister. Suddenly he was moving faster, and the burning went away as if the running itself was effortless. The next moments were a blur--he grabbed Illyana in his arms and beared down over her, and there was the awful cacophony of machinery twisting and breaking and snapping against an unyielding force. When it was over Piotr let Illyana go, she marvelled at him with saucepan eyes, and when he looked at his hands he saw his own reflection in a sheath of metallic skin.

Piotr’s parents did not understand the change that was happening to him, but they made sure that his life stayed normal after that. The loss of the combine was a blow to their family, but soon they were recouping their losses with the increase in productivity that Piotr supplied them. He could sprint across a field pulling two plows behind him, toss hay bales to the animals from the other side of the farm, and lift the tractors with ease when they needed a tire change.

The Rasputin family tried to keep Piotr’s gifts a secret as long as they could, but there was no escaping the eyes of a government looking for people precisely like Piotr. There was a knock at the door one day, and it was Piotr’s mother Alexandra who answered.

The visitor was a harsh-looking military man named Mikhail Ursus. When the Rasputin family tried relating to the man by saying that Piotr’s eldest brother was also named Mikhail the man simply responded, “I know.”

Ursus was straightforward about his knowledge of Piotr’s abilities. He was straightforward about the government’s desire to recruit Piotr into an elite military force they were assembling, and he was straightforward about his disdain when Piotr declined.

“What if I’m not asking, son?” Ursus responded.

Piotr stared at his feet, his large frame taking up a whole corner of the tiny kitchen, his sister and parents crowded around him. “I only ever wanted to be an artist. I only ever wanted to create. I do not have the constitution of a soldier.”

Ursus’ gaze turned toward the refrigerator. Piotr’s artwork was stuck to the the door with little magnets, the pictures growing in complexity from paper to paper, a result of Alexandra putting her favorites on the fridge ever since Piotr was just a boy. Ursus looked back at the family and saw how they cowered at him--all but the girl, the sister, who stared defiantly, knowing that she should not like the man but not understanding why.

Ursus took pity on them. He said that he would report back that Piotr was not fit for duty, and he ignored all attempts at thanks that the Rasputins offered him. Just before he left he said that he was not lying for them--he was not lying at all.

It was because of Ursus that Piotr’s parents had misgivings when their son came to them one morning and told them about the dream they had. He described a beautiful mansion in America where kind teachers could teach him about himself, about the world, and how to help. His parents saw the look in his eyes and they could tell it was truly what the boy wanted. Piotr’s father dug out a small box from the floorboards and gave it to his son, telling him that they would drive into Irkutsk the next day to get the documentation for Piotr’s passport.

Illyana was angry at her brother for leaving, old enough to remember her brother Mikhail’s disappearance but too young to know why anyone would ever leave home. Piotr embraced her nevertheless, told her for the thousandth time in their lives that she had a head of hay, and promised that he would come back to her.

The towering man who tore a combine to shreds and hurled hay bales a hundred meters at a time came to be known as “Colossus,” but his family would always remember him as their little Piotr.

[janiklandre-blog]

Monday, May 15, 2017

Monday May 15, 2017  9:25 a.m.  alone in the quiet computer room - not yet affected by cyber attack - scary stuff, considering all that is based on computers these days - my typewriter needs cleaning - but still there is paper and pen and I do have carbon paper and could make copies of what I write. All the things in my memory - a man who I believe was what we call a holocaust survivor - at some point I did exchange a few words with him, He was a longer, popping up here and there - and he typed extensive letters to the nyt, filling pages not leaving any margin anywhere, of course non were published but he attached them to a lamp post on the corner of 7th Street and Avenue A. I glanced at them occasionally. Also a form of publishing. I have not seen him in a while. Odd days. The mother's day - I heard some statistic of a billion dollars spent on mother's day gifts - and another story comes to mind: Robert G. graduated from Stuyvesant high school in January, 1946, he was 16 years old and had been admitted to a state university in the Midwest - Minnesota? - that informed him at the last moment that it was filled up with returning solders on the G.I. bill - and impatient to get away from New York he went to some small school in Potsdam,N.Y. His Protestant mother had raised him Jewish - or tried - in Potsdam he fell in love with a Christian girl, their Christian minister and was about to join that church - his mother very upset - when, on mother's day he was running across a street to a florist to have flowers sent to his mother, when a fast car hit him, broke both his legs and changed his life. In his mother's Protestant religion there was a God who punished any disobedience. A mother's day story. I have always been among those who detested the commercial aspect of the holiday - in Europe it was on another day than here, I ignored it and propagated altogether it be ignored. In one of the memoir reviews I read yesterday - also about a mother doing terrible things, she agitated against mother's day,  her son said and yet, was most appreciative when her son called her on mother's day. So, I was waiting for my sons to call and late in the day found an email on my ipad that I am slowly learning to use - one year after buying it. Still those mother's day vibes wer all over the place - from all sides it was coming, Happy mother's day - my friends were busily celebrating their mothers or being celebrated, not one of the called me - then sitting on the bus going to Central Park, my cell phone announcing a text - Happy Mother's day - no name, a 603 number, I text back, who is 603? - Carrol Greene comes the answer. The most vexing - if that is the right word - texting exchange follows - how much he misses me, how he wants to visit me in New York, how he might go to the Philippines to get married - Carrol - my New Hampshire backwoods car mechanic who for years kept my jealopies in great running shape. I wish I was a better writer than I am - reading essays by 18 year olds I find their writing so superior to my writing - the Greene family in New Hampshire are such characters - only in America? It was my New Hampshire friend Stephen W. - I met him in New Hampshire - who discoverd Carrol on his way to the little air port that he used for his one engine cessna. The Greenes are an old family there, Carrol ownes acres and acres, that he covers with cars he buys at auctions and he is in trouble with the local government because these masses of cars are not ecologically sound. In New Hampshire to this day it is legal to drive an uninsured car, Also there are many rural pockets of poverty - and social ills - yet cars are so essential - both farmswhere I stayed were seven miles from the nearest store and the nearest I can get by public transport - an expensive bus - is Concord, twenty miles away from where I want to be. Once upon a time a railroad did run through the township, the rails have been removed but the tracks are still there. Carrol supplied the neediest of the needy with cars, they paid in small installments. I may have been the only customer he ever had who paid him in full, in cash - I most loved a 1998 or so Mercury Topaz for $500. We spent hours together on a hot July day, surrounded by mosquitoes - in an incredibly messy space, taking off all four wheels and replacing the brake pads and making other improvements. Everything worked on this car - in 2007 I wrote it over to Stephen when we drove to the border of Tennessee to say goodbye to his mother - then ddrove back in a day to Vermont - the car did great. I never saw it again. All, long, long stories. I did get to Central Park - was greeted by many more: Happy mother's day - in the nest of the hawk three hatchlings - many telescopes on them - I came to sit next to a Bruce, a professional - a huge camera on a tripod, hooked up to video, in front of him a large ipad recording the video and posting it on face book and possibly also elsewhere - he invited me to watch the action with him on his ipod - that I could do sitting back against the bush with large white blossoms. There was action in the nest galore - Stella, an old timer at her telescope reporting with great excitement - both parents coming and going, bringing food, the little ones fighting over the food. It is a scenario I've been watching since the 1990's - alas so many of my fellow watchers have died - I never had seen Bruce before. Then he showed me on his iphone that the predicted rainstorm was to happen in 10 minutes, huge down pour - I rushed to the boat house. found the last free chair under an umbrella on the patio, it rained a little, I read the nyt book review and when I saw the sun shining returned to the hawk scenario - there were several familiar faces, Carlos, great enthusiast, great photographer, he sends me emails, the 1931 fireboat Bruce - I hope I get to ride it - I talked with Eleanor - then did see a really threatening cloud hidden behind the bush - in front beautiful blue sky - I rushed for the bus, caught a #2 and while on the bus it poured - and stopped raining when I got off the bus. Ate the rest of my delicious Polish food and waited for a friend - she is the daughter of a friend and lives in Berlin - she did not come but a little while ago called on my cell phone and will come to my apartment at 11 - I said I would be there. Another evening that I spent reading - the book review - memoirs, memoirs, more memoirs. I tried my hand at it - was accused of navel gazing, indulgence - sadly never had the skill to get tham out "on the marketz' - still do continue to marvel at all the things people reveal these days and  I am glad for it. I also long have enjoyed documentaries and more and more are made and if only I was a bit more techno savvy I could watch them. Again - I also would have loved to make one. Once again ending of the note on gratitude for this here blog -  I'm enjoying myself writing it - I hope some readers enjoy it - and hallo Carrol, I vividly remember my last visit - three years ago? - have not though too often of you, thank you for thinking of me. Adios

[bobmccullochny]

July History

Trivia for July 1 1770 – Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history.

1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discoverd the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.

1881 – The world’s first international telephone call was made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1898 – The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba. (Spanish-American War)

1903 – The first Tour de France bicycle race began.

1908 – SOS was adopted as the international distress signal. Three dits, three dahs, and three dits – SOS is the only nine-element signal in Morse code.

1943 – Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture area and was dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan actually has the name “Tokyo” – that is, present-day Tokyo is not officially a city.

1963 – ZIP codes were introduced for US mail.

1965 – Maurice Masse, a farmer, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France said he was ‘frozen’ by aliens while investigating the strange noises they were making.

1971 – The Post Office Department (1792 – 1971) became the United States Postal Service

1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England took place.

1979 – Sony introduced the Walkman (in Japan).

1980 – O Canada officially became the national anthem of Canada.

1985 – A&E separated from sister channel Nickelodeon.

1984 – The PG-13 rating was introduced by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

1985 – Nike-at-Nite began on Nickelodeon

1991 – Court TV, which later became truTV, began airing in the US.

2007 – Smoking in England was banned in all public indoor spaces.

2007 – The Concert for Diana was held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries, on which would have been her 46th birthday.