Happy Fiftieth! I am actually posting this on Sunday night, but thru the magic of backdating this post like an Apple Stock Scandal it will appear on Thursday. And before The Count to boot! Anyway, I am travelling across the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Episode Fifty, here you are, all shiny and new. I wish we could offer you with multiple foil covers, sealed in some sort of bag to make you absolutely worthless if somebody opens you to actually read your contents. In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Keeping with some semblance of posting events chronologically (even though I am posting this far in the future after my vacation has completed, and am back-dating again), the next big event on my road trip was seeing The House on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, this is more a joke about an earlier school of Italian warcraft. Prior to the time of Pope Julius II and his ludicrously bloody battles to hold the papal lands together, there was a glorious though brief […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thus is put to an end the ages-old barroom discussion of “Who would win in a fight between a sixteenth century Florentine Army and The Amish?” My mother actually lives in the middle of a rather large Amish/Anabaptist community, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frederick loved creating new orders and decorations for Prussia. He saw that people would workk themselves just as silly for a piece of special ribbon as they would for a hundred acres of hereditary land and, figuring that Prussia had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Look at those backgrounds! Dayumn! In other news, my understanding of Henry the Eighth is largely based upon my understanding of the Cookie Monster. The kind of Cookie Monster that would fight the Pope and put the ax to his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, I don’t think Henry VIII had reached his full rotundity (totally a word!) quite this early. Actually, as a young monarch, Henry was quite the athletic specimen, a regular champion of the tournament scene and a fancy-shirt-wearing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peter was all for torturing folks to get information out of them. It was the one bit of Old Russia he couldn’t quite bring himself to give up. After watching his family’s closest friends literally torn apart by the hands […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It has only been about 20 episodes since we last saw Franz von Sickingen. Out of all the livery he has swapped out to show his allegiance to Loyola, I can only imagine that finding the type of silly hat […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…