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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited April 2011 in Ten Forward
No doubt it's been attempted before, but let's discuss history!

To start if off, let's visit America and turn back the clock to the late 40's, 1947 to 49 to be precise. WW2 is over, but there's still a lot of reduced availability of what we now consider basic commodities, such as petrol and rubber. And of course there's no Interstates or motorways either.

So let's sit down, popcorn in hand, ready to giggle about the old fashionedness, as we watch "A Great Railroad At Work", a promotional film made about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    MGDawson wrote: »
    And of course there's no Interstates or motorways either.

    In that case, there are days when I think we were all better off for it...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    OK, who let MG play with the Way Back Machine again? Last time this happened, Romans were riding dinosaurs in China!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    He just got this months Anachronistic Man, put him in the mood it did
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    MGDawson wrote: »
    No doubt it's been attempted before, but let's discuss history!

    To start if off, let's visit America and turn back the clock to the late 40's, 1947 to 49 to be precise. WW2 is over, but there's still a lot of reduced availability of what we now consider basic commodities, such as petrol and rubber. And of course there's no Interstates or motorways either.

    So let's sit down, popcorn in hand, ready to giggle about the old fashionedness, as we watch "A Great Railroad At Work", a promotional film made about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

    Contrary to the lies that Queen of yours forces into your brains the United States (America as you say) has never had a "petrol" crisis of any kind. In America, we have gas crises.

    :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    The history behind the closing of the "Kiss-Up Time" thread is my fault. My sincere apoligies!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    JCSWW wrote: »
    The history behind the closing of the "Kiss-Up Time" thread is my fault. My sincere apoligies!

    What on earth did you post over there to get Wish so worked up? I'm quite curious.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    What on earth did you post over there to get Wish so worked up? I'm quite curious.

    I wish I could share but it would more than likely get me a point or two and possibly a temporary suspension. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    MGDawson wrote: »
    No doubt it's been attempted before, but let's discuss history!

    To start if off, let's visit America and turn back the clock to the late 40's, 1947 to 49 to be precise. WW2 is over, but there's still a lot of reduced availability of what we now consider basic commodities, such as petrol and rubber. And of course there's no Interstates or motorways either.

    So let's sit down, popcorn in hand, ready to giggle about the old fashionedness, as we watch "A Great Railroad At Work", a promotional film made about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

    Boring.

    Let's talk about some fun history that never happened.

    So in 1625 Ravenstein's Ultimate Burgundian Empire is totally cool.

    Does anyone know what Medieval Burgundy was like? Or where it was? Okay, for the uninitiated it was the area around Dijon (that's in France), the Franche-Comte (area of France that borders Switzerland), and what would one day become Belgium.

    I have conquered all of France and the Netherlands, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, Switzerland, and Sicily. And that is just Europe. I also have the Azores, Bermuda, most of the Caribbean, the Eastern Seaboard of what might one day be the United States, Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Columbia, Fernando Po, South Africa, Madagascar, and Ceylon.

    I am awesome and cool. I am the Holy Roman Empress and the Papal Controller.

    Comments?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Is that the same empire that was forced to break up after War to End All Wars?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Archanubis wrote:
    Is that the same empire that was forced to break up after War to End All Wars?

    We won't break up! Ever! The band will play on!

    Hey is that...TRIBBLE...

    GET OUT OF HERE YOKO!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Today in history.

    Quite a lot going on then. :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Just a little 'bump'.

    OP edited as the original video uploader decided to delete it. Nice of them...thankfully, somebody else had also uplaoded it, so it was a minor link swap.

    So, a few history facts about the famous LNER locomotives;
    • The A4 class, typified by the world record for fastest steam locomotive holder "Mallard" no. 4468, has a lower number than that of "Flying Scotsman", no 4472, which is of a 'lesser' class (A3).
    • Sir Nigel Gresley, who designed the above loco classes, designed the A1, then modified it to become an A3, then modified it again to become an A4, largely by enshrounding it in a streamlined casing. An A4 and A3 are extremely similar, the main differences after removal of the streamlined casings are the wedge cut-out for the streamlining from the front of the smokebox and a general reduction in component size to fit within the streamlining.
    • On that run to obtain the record, the driver smelt the 'warning' smell that was emitted to tell them the loco was being stretched beyond it's limits. Instead of reducing speed, the driver pushed the loco further, knowing that the extreme heat already in the components would allow him an extra bit of speed.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation. They kept the systems of government that they had developed as separate colonies but also would have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia.


    as for the rest........
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    talk about ancient European history instead (like the Romans). thats always a fun history subject :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Ooiue wrote: »
    talk about ancient European history instead (like the Romans). thats always a fun history subject :D

    Or the Byzantines :D noone ever cares about them :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Or the Byzantines :D noone ever cares about them :(
    Not even Sid Meier gives them good stats. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    MGDawson wrote: »
    Not even Sid Meier gives them good stats. :D

    Lol this is very true. At least total war gave them their flamethrowers :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Lol this is very true. At least total war gave them their flamethrowers :D

    Well the famous walls are epic. you have to admit that :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Ooiue wrote: »
    Well the famous walls are epic. you have to admit that :D

    Indeed saved so many times thanks to those impregnable walls
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Indeed saved so many times thanks to those impregnable walls

    Yeah; too bad they opened the doors to the Crusaders. :/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Archanubis wrote:
    Yeah; too bad they opened the doors to the Crusaders. :/

    Meh they had to the crusaders were so numerous in number that getting them out of the empire ASAP was a neccesesity. Too bad the crusaders werent a little better at fighting otherwise they might have rid the byzantines of their mortal enemy
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