Sunday, February 11, 2007
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRIANNICA POST
snippet continued from AURELIUS entry(refer to previous EB post), his son COMMODUS(shit hole eh?) was a bad seed. sensualist, BUFFOON and TYRANT. ahh, like georgie jr! why do great men have such shitty spawn?
AURORA POLARIS-not so good, but back then they had some interesting theories and observations. such as-dark bank of clouds below them. of course we know that is because they start high in the atmosphere, so it is an optical illusion. and i have seen stars or planets below northern lights. i actually saw them last time i flew to denmark.
AUSTIN, Jane-most of her books were written earlier than published. some amusing observations from the entry. it says-it is probable indeed that her admirers will always be few in #.
and then says-her works are entirely wanting in certain elements-such as depth of feeling and bredth of sympathy.
idiots.
AUSTRALASIA(Australia)-the mao seeemed different in it's 'states'. north/south/west australia? alexandraland? the history section seem mostly about explorers going here and there '1st'.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-more interestng as i recently had a good ebay encounter with a prague illustrator/cartoonist. the map was way WAY different. some 'provinces' i had never heard of. carithia, styria, camiola,istria, dalmatia(oh, actually there on a 80's national geographic map!), silesia, galacia, goritz. some i did recognize thru the different spelling, servia and budapesth. oy, the history was a bundle of battles and leaders invading and the 30 years war and the 7 years war.
autria was confederacy of 5 countries, hungary, bohemia, galacia, ilyria, and dalmatia, 1 duchy-styria, 1 malgravite-moraravia, 1 country-tyrol, and divided into provinces(crown-lands) at 'present'18,14 in ustria proper, 4 in hungary.
there record keeping was quite thorough. births, still births, illigitamate, in 1869, 28 men and 40 women over 100 years old. counted suicides as well.
they did mention czechs and slovaks in the race section.
30 years war- protestants vs catholics. big names-Tilly and Wallenstein.
king charles, i actually have a 1719 coin of his era, but it says carol IV. father of Maria-theresa(mother of marie antoinette). Prussian king Frederick II bad. 7 years war 850,000 dead for basiclly nothing. Maria-Theresa basicaly the ruler for 40 years.
snippet continued from AURELIUS entry(refer to previous EB post), his son COMMODUS(shit hole eh?) was a bad seed. sensualist, BUFFOON and TYRANT. ahh, like georgie jr! why do great men have such shitty spawn?
AURORA POLARIS-not so good, but back then they had some interesting theories and observations. such as-dark bank of clouds below them. of course we know that is because they start high in the atmosphere, so it is an optical illusion. and i have seen stars or planets below northern lights. i actually saw them last time i flew to denmark.
AUSTIN, Jane-most of her books were written earlier than published. some amusing observations from the entry. it says-it is probable indeed that her admirers will always be few in #.
and then says-her works are entirely wanting in certain elements-such as depth of feeling and bredth of sympathy.
idiots.
AUSTRALASIA(Australia)-the mao seeemed different in it's 'states'. north/south/west australia? alexandraland? the history section seem mostly about explorers going here and there '1st'.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-more interestng as i recently had a good ebay encounter with a prague illustrator/cartoonist. the map was way WAY different. some 'provinces' i had never heard of. carithia, styria, camiola,istria, dalmatia(oh, actually there on a 80's national geographic map!), silesia, galacia, goritz. some i did recognize thru the different spelling, servia and budapesth. oy, the history was a bundle of battles and leaders invading and the 30 years war and the 7 years war.
autria was confederacy of 5 countries, hungary, bohemia, galacia, ilyria, and dalmatia, 1 duchy-styria, 1 malgravite-moraravia, 1 country-tyrol, and divided into provinces(crown-lands) at 'present'18,14 in ustria proper, 4 in hungary.
there record keeping was quite thorough. births, still births, illigitamate, in 1869, 28 men and 40 women over 100 years old. counted suicides as well.
they did mention czechs and slovaks in the race section.
30 years war- protestants vs catholics. big names-Tilly and Wallenstein.
king charles, i actually have a 1719 coin of his era, but it says carol IV. father of Maria-theresa(mother of marie antoinette). Prussian king Frederick II bad. 7 years war 850,000 dead for basiclly nothing. Maria-Theresa basicaly the ruler for 40 years.
