Peter burned down so many damn villages trying to starve out Charles XII’s invasion… I mean, it would be sort of disappointing if he hadn’t. To have a Russian leader not respond to invasion by burning large parts of his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Some of our “heroes” are terrible, terrible people. –Geoff
Before talking a bit about the slight differences in today’s comic, I want to direct everybody’s attention to our brand new feature: Good Reads. I read a bit of history, and for the most part the field is cluttered with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes. Please enjoy our Fop Training episodes while I look for a house to live in. The main story and colors will return when I am no longer a vagrant. But enough about my current hobo status! Here is an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Theodore Roosevelt was hard core. Both his wife and his mother died on Valentine’s Day in 1884. His response was to ride into the most desolate patch of the midwest he could find and just wander. Eventually, he became a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Charge of the Light Brigade was not supposed to be anywhere near as Romantic (by which, of course, is meant “entirely disastrous”) as it was. It turned out that the dude giving the orders didn’t see the artillery between […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went over to Geoff’s the other day to help him pack up his miscellanea only to find him in front of his computer, AGONIZING over the Froot Piez slogan. It was a beautiful sight. I don’t know what Nietzsche […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My introduction to Mary Baker Eddy was through Mark Twain’s book Christian Science. It opens thus: “This last summer, when I was on my way back to Vienna from the Appetite-Cure in the mountains, I fell over a cliff in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to evaluate Bismarck properly. He was blessed with incompetent diplomatic contemporaries and with enough insight to know the full range of their incompetence. Unlike Frederick, though, who had something of the same gift, Bismarck realized that, if you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know, I know. “Why Louis XIV’s mistress, the Marquise de Montespan, and not Louis XV’s more famous mistress, Madame de Pompadour?” Well, Frederick actually knew Madame de Pompadour and absolutely HATED her. He was beside himself with joy when […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…