The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Was that "skotten i Sarajevo", Gavrilo McPrincip?

Uh-huh-huh. Huh-huh.

[Syt]

I admit I slightly prefer the HRE regalia at the treasure chamber.

[Threviel]

The Friedrich II Hohenstaufen coronation robe and a weird Byzantine bowl is what I remember from the treasure chamber.

[Syt]

The Friedrich II Hohenstaufen coronation robe and a weird Byzantine bowl is what I remember from the treasure chamber.

You don't remember the crowns of the HRE and the Austrian Empire?

[Duque de Bragança]

About Vienna, I remember too the sword of Skanderbeg, the Albanian national hero.



Plus the mini 88 flak gun on a desk at the entrance.

PS: added the sword and the goat helmet for the Brain.

[Syt]

Also, Skanderbeg's helmet.

[The Brain]

Was he the goat?

[Maladict]

The Friedrich II Hohenstaufen coronation robe

Wait what? Did I miss that?

[Threviel]

Now that I see them, yes. I remember thinking that they were not very impressive.

[derspiess]

Was he the goat?

GOAT

[Eddie Teach]

Sheep go to heaven. Tom Brady, go to hell.

[Josquius]

I remember Japanese TV as being utterly boring. Nothing but D-list celebrities watching people eat, poor production value news programmes, etc...

Here's something I didn't see. A while before my time. Very interesting. Old Boy made real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_o8v88nkKc

[Syt]

https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3293980 (contains zoomable map that lets you read all map labels more clearly - e.g. the Great Lakes have been renamed after beers - Pilsner, Lager, Münchner, Culmbacher, Hofbräu, Salt Lake City is Salzlakenburg, one city is Wienerschnitzelplatz etc.)

A broadside issued in 1916 by the American Rights Committee in an effort to overcome isolationist sentiment insisting on continued neutrality in the ongoing European War. The U.S. has been renamed New Prussia, and American city names have been replaced with German (or Germanized) versions. Washington is New Berlin, Chicago is Schlauterhaus, and Boston is Kulturplatz. Denverburg and Salzlakenburg are presumably German, but Florida has become Turconia, California has become Japonica, and the northwest is dominated by Nagaseattle and New Kobe. New Mexico is an "American Reservation" in Der Grosse Desert. This handbill reproduces an actual cover of Life Magazine; see ID #2160.
The American Rights Committee was a group of distinguished New Yorkers, led by "George Haven Putnam, the well-known publisher." In a "great mass meeting" at Carnegie Hall on March 13, 1916, the Committee condemned the "Prussian Imperial Militarism" that "has brought about the subjugation of the people of Germany to an ambitious and unscrupulous autocracy and the corruption of the ancient German ideals through a dream of World-dominion," including "the crushing of friendly nations and the subjection of their peoples to a brutal and cruel military rule" and "practices of unprecedented barbarity." Accordingly, the Committee "Resolved, That the safety and honour of the American people and their duty to defend and maintain the rights of humanity require us to approve the cause for which the Entente Allies are fighting, and to extend to these Allies by any means in our power, not only sympathy, but direct co-operation at the proper time, to the end that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The Outlook, March 22, 1916, pp. 646, 666-67

[Eddie Teach]

Japonica? Wrong war, guys.

[grumbler]

Japonica? Wrong war, guys.

  None of the stuff on the map is real.  Racism against the Japanese was very prevalent in the Pacific West of the US from the 19th C on.  The 1894 treaty allowing unrestricted Japanese emigration to the US was greeted with hysteria in California.  In 1906 San Francisco barred Japanese students from attending schools with whites, and this lead to the 1907 "Gentlemen's Agreement" that the Japanese government would restrict emigration to the US.

See: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/japanese-relations