Aeson
I am the mysterious professor.
It's a Democratic Republic not an empire.::checks clock::
Sounds about right.

It's a Democratic Republic not an empire.::checks clock::
Sounds about right.
does the end of an empire in this sense need to be a balkanization or are they counting nominal regime changes as the ends of empires as well?TIL the average empire survives 250 years.
I still use my Bluetooth. I just don't talk about crimes I'm committing or about people that could hear. You never know who's listening on the other side.
It's also the title of a horror movie starring Kate Beckinsale. Couple buys a house with a disappointment room, that was definitely used. Death ensues.Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.
I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.
And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.
Now I need to go lie down. Geez.
TIL Goonies contained some real history after all.Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.
I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.
And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.
Now I need to go lie down. Geez.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus wept wow that is a LOT worse than what I was expecting.Today I learned what a "disappointment room" is in a house, and when/where/why they were built.
I was just Googling around, looking for inspiration on my next D&D adventure, and was looking up different types of rooms that were used throughout history. "Disappointment Room" had an interesting-sounding name, so I read up on them and hoo boy.
And that sent me down a rabbit hole on the Internet, where I came across "ugly laws" in American cities and how they weren't repealed until friggin 1974 somehow.
Now I need to go lie down. Geez.
RIGHT?!Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus wept wow that is a LOT worse than what I was expecting.
The TV show The A-Team is also named after a different real thing as I learned yesterday from either Behind The Bastards or Lions Lead By Donkeys (the war history podcast, not the weaksauce British politics guys) - link goes to the specific part describing "A-Teams" as used in the Vietnam war.Today I learned that the A-TEAM was a real thing that actually existed (briefly) in 1964. It was an acronym for Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower.