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Ukraine Daily summary - Tuesday, January 14 2025
The question isn't if China will turn on Russia, but when -- Putin has failed to meet any of his strategic objectives in Ukraine -- Bryansk chemical plant hit in aerial attack, Russian media says -- Russia's federal budget won't fund anti-drone systems at civilian airports -- Everything we know about the North Korean POWs captured by Ukraine -- and morehttps://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Tuesday,%20January%2014%202025/
A lot of people who know will put #BlueLEDs as fundamental #tech next to #Diesel & #Steam #Engines, #ScrewPropellers, #FiberopticCables and #GunPowder...
A man blowing up another man's head with #gunpowder - an illustration to Samuel Clarke, 'A Generall Martyrologie' London, 1651. (British Museum)
Vamos de história, afinal hoje é 5 de novembro!
Lembrai, lembrai do cinco de novembro
A pólvora, a traição, o ardil
Por isso não vejo como esquecer
Uma traição de pólvora tão vil
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd (or by God's mercy*)
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!
Oct 1605: Ambrose Rookwood #Gunpowder conspirator went up to #London #otd wearing a 'new Hungarian horseman's coat, lined all with velvet & other apparel exceeding costly' #FashionableConspirator
A quotation from Morley, Christopher:
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Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while …
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/morley-christopher/72339/
From a boy setting off small explosions in his living room to the creator of world-famous pyrotechnic events, multidisciplinary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has always been drawn to gunpowder.
Ukrainian #drone hits gunpowder plant in Russia
The Tambov #gunpowder plant is one of the largest industrial facilities in Russia that manufactures ammunition for the army, including gunpowder for small arms cartridges.
Its production has been reportedly increased by a third since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The plant was put on the U.S. sanction list in 2023.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drone-hits-gunpowder-plant-in-russia-source-says/
Matches, fireworks and gunpowder - SULPHUR album
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1044 - 1880 - Gunpowder changed the world and how warfare was conducted, but it didn't have the immediate impact that one might assume. So let's explore its emergence and development in this dedicated episode of the History of the World podcast.
29 Apr 1696: Ambrose Rookwood, great grandson of Ambrose Rookwood #Gunpowder Plotter implicated in a conspiracy to murder William III is executed #otd (BM/GAC) #runsintheblood
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/8FZEiz4igIb
#genghiskhan #mongolempire #ogedeikhan #russia #hungary #gunpowder #goldenhorde #chagatai #ilkhanate #yuandynasty #kublaikhan #mongols #history #worldhistory #medievalhistory
1227 - 1635 - The death of Genghis Khan meant that his descendants would have to share the spoils of the massive empire that he had created. The culture of leadership that he created meant that the Mongols would influence many areas of the world before their ultimate exhaustion.
Ukraine Daily Summary - Friday, March 15
Russian reconnaissance troops forced to retreat after failed attempt to cross Dnipro -- Anti-Kremlin militias warn of new attacks, again call on civilians to evacuate -- Russia believed to have jammed signal on plane carrying UK defense minister -- Russian March 13 attack on residential building in Sumy kills 3, injures 12 -- and more
https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20Summary%20-%20Friday,%20March%2015/
Today in Labor History January 31, 1606: Guy Fawkes jumped to his death moments before his execution for treason. Guy Fawkes belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Fawkes, who had converted to Catholicism, also fought in the 80-Years War for Catholic Spain against the Dutch. He later traveled to Spain seeking support for a Catholic rebellion in England. The English tortured him into confessing the names of his co-conspirators. Brits have celebrated Guy Fawkes Day ever since, usually accompanied by fireworks and burning effigies, traditionally the pope, but recently they’ve burned effigies of Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Margaret Thatcher, instead. James Sharpe, professor of history at the University of York, called Fawkes "the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions." Numerous historical novels and children’s books have been written about Fawkes, including William Harrison Ainsworth's 1841 historical romance “Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #guyfawkes #conspiracy #gunpowder #plot #catholic #spain #england #liztruss #rishisunak #margaretthatcher #fiction #historicalfiction #books #novel #author #writer @bookstadon
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This meme, and several others like it, are going around my friends list at the moment. A lot of the people sharing it are fellow #veterans, and I know why: it’s an idea with strong appeal to those of us who were carefully trained in the capability for great #violence, and then given the tools to put that training to use. It does things to your head, and one way to deal with those things is to convince yourself that it made you meaningfully better in some way.
Unfortunately, it’s crap.
First of all, practically everyone is capable of great violence, and has been since the invention of #gunpowder. You don’t have to be a hulking armored #knight to mow down your enemies, or those you imagine to be your enemies. All you need is a working index finger. Sir Kittenfeeder isn’t as special as you think he is.
(On the whole I think this is a good thing, although the ways in which it’s … not good … are dramatic and horrible and in front of our faces with grotesque frequency. That’s a different conversation.)
Second, yes, there are other levels of violence than the worst, and I think all in all it’s good to have some familiarity with them. But there are matters of scale. Once upon a time I was at least a competent martial artist. I could have trained much harder than I did, every single day for my entire young adult life, and still never have been as good at it as the people born with the capacity to reach the top.
A very good but perhaps somewhat overenthusiastic #kickboxing coach told me I had the potential to be a pro. Some sparring sessions with actual pros—not champions, just those who were good enough to make a little money at it—demonstrated otherwise. Man’s gotta know his limitations.
Third, and perhaps most important … if you go around thinking all day about how capable of great violence you are, you are not peaceful. Oh, you may want to be. You may convince yourself and others around you that you are. If you and they are very lucky, you’ll live your whole life without ever doing anything to break that peace. But you probably won’t—and most likely those closest to you will pay the price.
The capacity to do violence, and the choice of whether or not to exercise it, are pretty much orthogonal. There are dangerous violent people, dangerous peaceful people, harmless violent people, and harmless peaceful people. We may fear and loathe the first, admire the second, pity the third, and not think much at all about the fourth because it’s most people’s default state most of the time. Good thing, too, because otherwise none of us would be here.
But any one of us can be any of the above, in different contexts at different times.
Absolutely, cultivate the capacity for violence if you want. In certain times and places, it’s useful. Other times, it’s at least good #exercise, and can lead to considerable self-improvement. Even as old and busted as I am, I still entertain thoughts of getting back into some kind of training one of these days. I miss it, and it did a lot to make me who I am.
Just remember it doesn’t make you any better as a human being. Doesn’t make you any worse, either. It’s simply part of who you are, and it’s up to the people around you to determine how good that is.
Oh yeah, and stop bragging, because that’s not a good look for anybody.
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