#the book of mormon sweden

[sgtprophet]

ok so mayybee i made two drawings the same dayyyy but blame these boys okay

[amazing-spiderlad]

Obsessed with the swedish book of mormon cast ngl

That's gotta be one of the frutiest looking mckinleys I've ever seen

Also I think everyone needs to see this video. This is the only male cover of Candy Store that matters.

They're in character as well 😭

[aroundtheworldwithphillyfogg]

Fixed: December 5th: Verne makes a detour to dunk on Mormons.

During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran south-easterly for about fifty miles; then rose an equal distance in a north-easterly direction, towards the Great Salt Lake.

Passepartout, about nine o’clock, went out upon the platform to take the air. The weather was cold, the heavens grey, but it was not snowing. The sun’s disc, enlarged by the mist, seemed an enormous ring of gold, and Passepartout was amusing himself by calculating its value in pounds sterling, when he was diverted from this interesting study by a strange-looking personage who made his appearance on the platform.

This personage, who had taken the train at Elko, was tall and dark, with black moustache, black stockings, a black silk hat, a black waistcoat, black trousers, a white cravat, and dogskin gloves. He might have been taken for a clergyman. He went from one end of the train to the other, and affixed to the door of each car a notice written in manuscript.

Passepartout approached and read one of these notices, which stated that Elder William Hitch, Mormon missionary, taking advantage of his presence on train No. 48, would deliver a lecture on Mormonism in car No. 117, from eleven to twelve o’clock; and that he invited all who were desirous of being instructed concerning the mysteries of the religion of the “Latter Day Saints” to attend.

“I’ll go,” said Passepartout to himself. He knew nothing of Mormonism except the custom of polygamy, which is its foundation.

The news quickly spread through the train, which contained about one hundred passengers, thirty of whom, at most, attracted by the notice, ensconced themselves in car No. 117. Passepartout took one of the front seats. Neither Mr. Fogg nor Fix cared to attend.

At the appointed hour Elder William Hitch rose, and, in an irritated voice, as if he had already been contradicted, said, “I tell you that Joe Smith is a martyr, that his brother Hiram is a martyr, and that the persecutions of the United States Government against the prophets will also make a martyr of Brigham Young. Who dares to say the contrary?”

No one ventured to gainsay the missionary, whose excited tone contrasted curiously with his naturally calm visage. No doubt his anger arose from the hardships to which the Mormons were actually subjected. The government had just succeeded, with some difficulty, in reducing these independent fanatics to its rule. It had made itself master of Utah, and subjected that territory to the laws of the Union, after imprisoning Brigham Young on a charge of rebellion and polygamy. The disciples of the prophet had since redoubled their efforts, and resisted, by words at least, the authority of Congress. Elder Hitch, as is seen, was trying to make proselytes on the very railway trains.

Then, emphasising his words with his loud voice and frequent gestures, he related the history of the Mormons from Biblical times: how that, in Israel, a Mormon prophet of the tribe of Joseph published the annals of the new religion, and bequeathed them to his son Mormon; how, many centuries later, a translation of this precious book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who revealed himself as a mystical prophet in 1825; and how, in short, the celestial messenger appeared to him in an illuminated forest, and gave him the annals of the Lord.

Several of the audience, not being much interested in the missionary’s narrative, here left the car; but Elder Hitch, continuing his lecture, related how Smith, junior, with his father, two brothers, and a few disciples, founded the church of the “Latter Day Saints,” which, adopted not only in America, but in England, Norway and Sweden, and Germany, counts many artisans, as well as men engaged in the liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a town built at Kirkland; how Smith became an enterprising banker, and received from a simple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians.

The Elder’s story became somewhat wearisome, and his audience grew gradually less, until it was reduced to twenty passengers. But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith’s bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.

Ten hearers only were now left, among them honest Passepartout, who was listening with all his ears. Thus he learned that, after long persecutions, Smith reappeared in Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of which he became mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief; that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; and that finally, being drawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown into prison, and assassinated by a band of men disguised in masks.

Passepartout was now the only person left in the car, and the Elder, looking him full in the face, reminded him that, two years after the assassination of Joseph Smith, the inspired prophet, Brigham Young, his successor, left Nauvoo for the banks of the Great Salt Lake, where, in the midst of that fertile region, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony, thanks to the polygamy practised by the Mormons, had flourished beyond expectations.

“And this,” added Elder William Hitch, “this is why the jealousy of Congress has been aroused against us! Why have the soldiers of the Union invaded the soil of Utah? Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned, in contempt of all justice? Shall we yield to force? Never! Driven from Vermont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some independent territory on which to plant our tents. And you, my brother,” continued the Elder, fixing his angry eyes upon his single auditor, “will you not plant yours there, too, under the shadow of our flag?”

“No!” replied Passepartout courageously, in his turn retiring from the car, and leaving the Elder to preach to vacancy.

During the lecture the train had been making good progress, and towards half-past twelve it reached the northwest border of the Great Salt Lake. Thence the passengers could observe the vast extent of this interior sea, which is also called the Dead Sea, and into which flows an American Jordan. It is a picturesque expanse, framed in lofty crags in large strata, encrusted with white salt—a superb sheet of water, which was formerly of larger extent than now, its shores having encroached with the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increased its depth.

The Salt Lake, seventy miles long and thirty-five wide, is situated three miles eight hundred feet above the sea. Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000. Fishes are, of course, unable to live in it, and those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber, and other streams soon perish.

The country around the lake was well cultivated, for the Mormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens for domesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and other cereals, luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rose, clumps of acacias and milk-wort, would have been seen six months later. Now the ground was covered with a thin powdering of snow.

The train reached Ogden at two o’clock, where it rested for six hours, Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road; and they spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, “with the sombre sadness of right-angles,” as Victor Hugo expresses it. The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons. In this strange country, where the people are certainly not up to the level of their institutions, everything is done “squarely”—cities, houses, and follies.

The travellers, then, were promenading, at three o’clock, about the streets of the town built between the banks of the Jordan and the spurs of the Wahsatch Range. They saw few or no churches, but the prophet’s mansion, the court-house, and the arsenal, blue-brick houses with verandas and porches, surrounded by gardens bordered with acacias, palms, and locusts. A clay and pebble wall, built in 1853, surrounded the town; and in the principal street were the market and several hotels adorned with pavilions. The place did not seem thickly populated. The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades. There were many women, which was easily accounted for by the “peculiar institution” of the Mormons; but it must not be supposed that all the Mormons are polygamists. They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys. These poor creatures seemed to be neither well off nor happy. Some—the more well-to-do, no doubt—wore short, open, black silk dresses, under a hood or modest shawl; others were habited in Indian fashion.

Passepartout could not behold without a certain fright these women, charged, in groups, with conferring happiness on a single Mormon. His common sense pitied, above all, the husband. It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity. He felt decidedly repelled from such a vocation, and he imagined—perhaps he was mistaken—that the fair ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances on his person. Happily, his stay there was but brief. At four the party found themselves again at the station, took their places in the train, and the whistle sounded for starting. Just at the moment, however, that the locomotive wheels began to move, cries of “Stop! stop!” were heard.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. The gentleman who uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon. He was breathless with running. Happily for him, the station had neither gates nor barriers. He rushed along the track, jumped on the rear platform of the train, and fell, exhausted, into one of the seats.

Passepartout, who had been anxiously watching this amateur gymnast, approached him with lively interest, and learned that he had taken flight after an unpleasant domestic scene.

When the Mormon had recovered his breath, Passepartout ventured to ask him politely how many wives he had; for, from the manner in which he had decamped, it might be thought that he had twenty at least.

“One, sir,” replied the Mormon, raising his arms heavenward —“one, and that was enough!”

[sleepycatten]

Here's alt text for everyone, copied from Samantha's repost on Twitter 💖

Panel 1.

The word Énouement is written in white, against a dark field of stars.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows defines énouement as "the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, where you can finally get the answers to how things turn out in the real world—who your baby sister would become, what your friends would end up doing, where your choices would lead you, exactly when you’d lose the people you took for granted—which is priceless intel that you instinctively want to share with anybody who hadn’t already made the journey, as if there was some part of you who had volunteered to stay behind, who was still stationed at a forgotten outpost somewhere in the past, still eagerly awaiting news from the front."

I think it's such a perfect word.

Leave it to the French.

My name, Samantha Richardson, sits in the corner of the panel, also written in white.

Panel 2: A child is asleep in a dark room. There is a stuffed dinosaur lying on top of them. A Dark Crystal poster hangs on the wall behind them, as well as a childish drawing of a T.rex.

Panel 3: Same scene, but a crack of light, as if from an opened door, falls across the child.

Panel 4: A person dressed in a long green coat and rolled-up pants stands in the middle of the room, which is again dark. The person is carrying a duffle bag. We see dinosaurs, books, and clothing strewn across the floor. The person says, "Hey."

Panel 5: The person sits on the child's bed, and we see now she is a woman with brown hair, grown out from a purple coloring job.

Panel 5: Close up on the woman, who, seeming to speak to the room in general, says, "So, I know how sad you are. I know how you cry yourself to sleep some nights."

"I know how angry you feel."

"How scared."

Panel 7: The woman picks up the stuffed dinosaur, which is green with widely-spaced, thin, purple stripe. She holds it almost timidly.

Panel 8: Close-up on the dinosaur head, which has a plaid white and blue patch sewn onto the neck. The woman says, "I know what the years that are coming are going to be like."

"And I am so sorry."

Panel 9: The woman holds the dinosaur gently to her cheek, and a darkness seems to gather behind her.

Panel 10: The darkness coalesces into a cloud over her head, and the woman buries her face into the dinosaur's back, hugging it tightly.

Panel 11: The woman pulls her face away from the stuffed dinosaur, and the dark cloud appears to break up.

Panel 12: The woman straightens, tears running down her face. The cloud dissipates.

Panel 13: The woman offers a small smile, still crying. She says, "But…"

Panel 14: There is a Boba Fett toy on the floor, a sock, a toy T.rex, and 2 issues of The Uncanny X-men comics, issues 167 and 168. The woman continues, "…You're going to have good times, too. You'll have amazing friends."

Panel 15: More floor. In this panel there is a blue, hard-back cover of The Book of Mormon, and a red scripture-marking pencil. The woman says, "You're going to serve a mission in Portugal. You're gonna fall in love."

Panel 16: The top of a night stand, we see a small plastic sauropod, a green army man with a bazooka, and an orange Swedish Dala horse. The woman's dialog reads: "You're going to visit Sweden. A lot."

Panel 17: Floor again, where a plastic two-headed dragon battles a knight and ranger. More dialog: "And…Dungeons and Dragons. It's totally going to change your life."

Panel 18: The woman is reaching hesitantly towards the child. The woman says, "And there's Jurassic Park, and SO many superhero movies, even if the X-men ones are kinda terrible."

Panel 19: The woman settles the stuffed Apatosaurus back on the child. She says, "You're actually going to wind up liking green beans, if they're not canned. Mushrooms, too."

Panel 20: Close up on the child, who appears to still be sleeping, their hand close to their chin. More dialog from the woman: "You're going to be happy, in your own strange way."

Panel 21: Close up on the woman's hands, half-covered by the green coat's sleeves, but with fingers laced uncomfortably. She says, "Even with all that, our secret is just going to keep on hurting, until the day comes when it just hurts too much to keep it anymore."

Panel 22: Close up on the woman's face, which looks pained. She is pressing the fingers of her left hand hard against her cheek.

Panel 23: We see through the window, which shows the same field of night sky as the first panel. The woman continues speaking. "But it doesn't get us," she says. "We are SO incredibly lucky."

Panel 24: A picture of a family of eight grouped together, except for a boy off to the side. The text reads: Families can be together forever, draw your family. The woman says, "And, oh, sweetie, they love us."

Panel 25: The woman, in profile, smiling. She says, "We finally get to tell them who we are, and they still love us, so, so much."

Panel 26: We see the earth, with the sun breaking over the edge of the atmosphere. The woman says, "And the weight, it just… it just falls off, and the world is just waiting there for us. I don't have the words to tell you how beautiful it is."

Panel 27: Back to the room. The woman is still sitting on the edge of the bed, looking on towards the child's still form. She says, "So… I guess I just wanted to come here to say 'thank you'."

Panel 28: Just dialog. "Thank you for carrying that weight. For being so strong, and so brave for so very long. Thank you for sticking around long enough for me to finally get here. I'm sorry it took me so long."

Panel 29: The woman stands, looking back at the child.

Panel 30: The child, eyes still shut in seeming sleep, says, "Do we still like dinosaurs?"

Panel 31: The woman gives a gentle smirk. looking down.

Panel 32: We see the woman with her hand in her open duffle bag, fishing around for something.

Panel 33: The woman pulls free a stuffed dinosaur.

Panel 34: A shot of the child in bed, eyes still closed. The woman stands next to the bed, holding the dinosaur she has pulled from the duffle bag in one hand.

Panel 35: White txt on a black background, which reads, "Thank you for waiting."

"I love you."

Panel 36: We see the child in bed again, the dinosaur from the woman's duffle bag in their hand. Another sliver of light falls over them, as if from an open door.

Panel 37: The child is still in bed, and the room is dark again. The dinosaur from the woman is gone.

[theestervashti]

"The Rodef." From Esther 9: 1-4.

Chapter 9 begins by suggesting anyone who is experiencing oppression in the world should follow the recipe for revolution identified in the Book of Esther, what is called Marduk or Mordecai, "to crush hardship and bring out the sweetness."

If you are Muslim and homeless and want the AFD arrested for Crimes Against Humanity, Mordecai is your man. If you are Russian and do not want to be one of nearly a million dead bodies so Pooter can escape prison for his crimes, Mordecai is definitely your friend. If you are one of those tards in a ski mask and do not want to die faceless and nameless in Lebanon or Gaza, resistance to the Iranian regime is your way out.

If you are American and a woman and want to be free of abortion bans forever, there are six jail cells waiting in Sweden for those SCOTUS Justices that overturned RVW.

If you live in Afghanistan, castrate them all and watch them bleed out and die in the streets they currently think they own. Use a butter knife if you have to.

Freedom from oppression is not just for Jews, it is a right God gave everybody. But there must be a stand, not just a conversation. A place must have a reputation for not standing for it:

9 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them. 

2 The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them. 

3 And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had seized them.

4 Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.

The Values in Gematria are:

The frame names a time in the month of Adar when it is ideal to make a stand. Torah months are the amount of time it takes to learn the contents foubd ib a day. Societal changes take place in a year.

After we read about the First Day, in which God began the creation, we are allowed one month to figure it out. A Day=406, דאֶפֶסו‎ ‎, depresso, depressed, because one does not understand.

A month is 229, בבט‎‎‎, in a glance.

So the human problems we are meant to overcome are stated in the Days, the moment they pass us by takes place a month later, no matter how long it takes. God thinks this is done the faster the better, obviously.

So an Adar, "the Or" takes place in 12 "Glances" with the following explanation:

An Or=The verb אור ('or) means to be light or to give light; shine. The Bible uses this verb in all the expectable ways (sunlight, daylight etcetera) but often also metaphorically. Many Biblical light-metaphors have been incorporated into our own language, such as the light of understanding or wisdom. Even a lit-up face comes from the Bible (Job 29:24, Numbers 6:25, Ecclesiastes 8:1).

The Number is 3082, ל‎ףב‎, "the development of a heart, of a conscience."

So verse 1 says oppression ends the moment the study of the Torah is recognized as a mandate for mankind to possess a soul. Persons who cannot seem to come by one, like the Mormons do not belong here and they must be put down. The same thing with the Ayatollah and that fucktard in Russia, there is no need to worry about them they have to die.

The values in Gematria for the rest are:

v. 1: The Jews got the upper hand. The upper hand is the Hand of God, it is the Torah. They received it first and have willingly shared its teachings with the planet earth since the beginning. The story of the goddess Esther and also of the god Marduk is ancient. We have never been without a Torah of some kind.

The Number is 12403, יב‎םג, yvmg, "reap God's greatness."

"The familiar adjective μεγας (megas) means great or large and is used pretty much in the same way as the derived English prefix mega-: from greatness of physical size (John 21:11) to largeness in number (Mark 5:11), festive elaboration (Luke 5:29), width of category (Matthew 22:36), effect (Matthew 7:27), joy (Matthew 2:10), social clout (Matthew 20:25) et cetera.

This word occurs 240 times in the New Testament; see full concordance and comes with the following derivations:

The substantively used adjective μεγαλειος (megaleios), meaning great(ness) or glorious(ness). This word occurs only in plural (in Luke 1:49 and Acts 2:11), in the sense of "great things". From this word comes:

The noun μεγαλειοτης (megaleiotes), meaning greatness or majesty (Luke 9:43, Acts 19:27 and 2 Peter 1:16 only).

The verb μεγαλυνω (megaluno), meaning to make great or enlarge. This verb occurs 8 times in the New Testament; see full concordance.

The adverb μεγαλως (megalos), meaning greatly (Philippians 4:10 only).

The noun μεγαλωσυνη (megalosune), meaning greatness or majesty. This noun appears to be an epithet of YHWH (Hebrews 1:3, 8:1 and Jude 1:25 only).

The noun μεγεθος (megethos), meaning greatness (Ephesians 1:19 only)."

One who is oppressed must first realize their captors, the same that tunneled under Gaza, the MORMONs are filth. Turning a tyrant into garbage in the mind is the first step to freedom.

v. 2: The Jews assembled and attacked. Then, organizations and politicians, law enforcement and armies need to clear the world of troublemakers. The Torah says persons that cause strife give up their rights to be human are become details. Erasing a few bothersome details from our future is not at all a sin.

The Number is 10025, ‎חבלב, a roper. A roper or rodef, is to free oneself from one's pursuer from killing the one that is pursued.

v. 3: Fear of pursuit must affect the operations of the government. The Number is 7575, זהזה‎, "This is this."

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You have to make it go away.

v. 4: The movement spread. The Number is 6584, והחד‎, "and the sharp."

"To change society, you have to pursue the wicked and hang them by the neck using the words and the metaphors. Everything that is derogatory must be removed as if by a sharp rock. Then the way must be narrow: Only the veins of an odoriferous tree can be opened."

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.26 (before 1900)

590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 624 – First Eid al-Fitr celebration. 1021 – The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah. 1027 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. 1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt. 1344 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end. 1351 – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights. 1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables. 1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru. 1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands. 1640 – The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe. 1651 – Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José is pushed south by strong winds, subsequently it wrecks in the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew is killed by indigenous Cuncos. 1697 – Safavid government troops take control of Basra. 1700 – William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New Britain, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of New Guinea. 1812 – An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela. 1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston-Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection. 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. 1871 – The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held. 1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada. 1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident.

[starlene]

Linus Wahlgren, Elder Price in The Book of Mormon Stockholm, is doing God's work by posting a whopping ten minutes' worth of clips from a BoM Stockholm proshot on his Instagram story.

Dunno, go watch them or something.

[stolligaseptember]

i just want to say that in the swedish production, kevin and arnold share a bunk bed, and per andersson, who plays arnold, spends nearly five minutes trying to get into the top bunk next to kevin before i am here for you, and i nearly burst a kidney laughing

[gyaszhuszar]

hi i’m fucking crying at the costumes in swedish man up

[sgtprophet]

Day 3!!! THE BEST GD SONG!!!

”Imagine that your brain is made of tiny cats. Take the cats that’s gay and DROWN IT!”

[vaulthunter]

so we went and watched book of mormon here in stockholm a second time and this time i got this video from mckinley!! i told him about how he was getting attention here on tumblr and it really cheered him up! i also gave him the drawing i made for his birthday(which is today) and he really seemed to like it aaaa

[legos-lass]

swedish mckinley reblog if you agree

[revolutionarymusicals]

blonde mckinley is ginger erasure

[galmiahthepigeon]

Swedish McKinley is a feral criminal running loose and he burned down my apartment

swedish mckinley: find the cat that’s gay and DROWN IT!!

kevin, arnold, all the elders, the audience, all of us:

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.26

590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah. On the same day, al-Hakim's designated heir, Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, is arrested in Damascus and brought to Egypt. 1027 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. 1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt. 1344 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end. 1351 – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights. 1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables. 1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru. 1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands. 1640 – The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe. 1651 – Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José is pushed south by strong winds, subsequently it wrecks in the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew is killed by indigenous Cuncos. 1697 – Safavid government troops take control of Basra. 1700 – William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New Britain, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of New Guinea. 1812 – An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela. 1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection. 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. 1871 – The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held. 1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada. 1896 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident. 1913 – First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople. 1915 – The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association. 1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. 1922 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. 1931 – Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland. 1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam. 1934 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced. 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war. 1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces. 1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons. 1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3. 1958 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. 1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City. 1970 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy. 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C. 1981 – Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party. 1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C. 1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market. 1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. 1998 – During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives. 2005 – Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China. 2010 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea. 2017 – Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.

[norwegianbookofmormonfan]

Funny how the Norwegian cast of Book of Mormon now include both one of the Norwegian actors who played an elder in the Swedish production and the Norwegian actor who played an Ugandan in the Danish production of BoM