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This Day In UnHistory Contest
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What two important events in unhistory transpired one year ago
this week?
Last week I spotted someone refer to his thousandth post, took a peek at my own count, and voila: 1066. My kilopost snuck right past me. I was probably too busy reviling JDH or worshipping Kuzi or reviewing an uppercrust uppowoc cylinder someone had bombed me, or just generally spewing sarcastic stream of consciousness prose. Anyhoo, I missed it.
Of course, 1066 put me in mind of the year Harold Godwinson took an arrow in his eye on Senlac hill, back in those beknighted days when potentates actually had skin in the game. That there's history. Consequences of history linger. This day, for instance, made four letter Saxon words nasty. It's why *** and *** and *** are filtered by forum software, while excrement and coitus and **** are not.
So at first I reckoned to wait until post 1210, the next famous day in British history, when the barons forced John to promise not to punish any free man without trial. This Magna Carta is taught in school as the first constitutional limits on regal power. That's history. Problem is, I'd need 143 posts to reach that number, by which time I'd be distracted streaming sarcasm again and that dang number would sneak right past me.
Luckily, unhistory came to my rescue. A mere 34 years after that unlucky arrow, in 1100, Henry Beauclerk had to sign a Charter of Liberties, promising not to sell bishoprics or steal dowries and let people marry who they want, or else his nobles and prelates wouldn't have let him climb up on the throne. This was well and truly the first in a long series of contracts between English speaking peoples and their rulers. Craploads of Wat Tylers laid their heads on the block in the process. This is how our forebears replaced the rule of power which applies everywhere else with the rule of law which is our peculiar birthright. A long series of emancipations regrettably in rapid retreat today. But nobody remembers the C of L, which makes it unhistory; even though the consequences of unhistory equally linger, so that the C of L led directly to the MC.
Well, one year ago this week, third week of March, also marks important unhistory. Do you know what happened? These events dove-tail so neatly with 1100 and 1210 and Wat Tyler and Habeus Corpus and all those centuries of struggle now being systematically undone, that I adjusted my aim, bided my 34 posts, and here we are, third week of March, at post number 1100, year of the unfamous Charter of Liberties.
So here's what I want you to do. One simple rule: No cheating with google or wikipedia or such not. Be on your BOTL honor to scratch your own head on this. Just tell me what two remarkable unhistorical events consonant with this theme started and ended this third week of March just one year ago among English speaking peoples. First one to name them both gets a fiver of aptly named Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan Cigars.
Yep. It's all going to dovetail together, from conquest to beauclerk to black market hooligan, once we see the answer.
Who's in?
http://laterdude.com
Last week I spotted someone refer to his thousandth post, took a peek at my own count, and voila: 1066. My kilopost snuck right past me. I was probably too busy reviling JDH or worshipping Kuzi or reviewing an uppercrust uppowoc cylinder someone had bombed me, or just generally spewing sarcastic stream of consciousness prose. Anyhoo, I missed it.
Of course, 1066 put me in mind of the year Harold Godwinson took an arrow in his eye on Senlac hill, back in those beknighted days when potentates actually had skin in the game. That there's history. Consequences of history linger. This day, for instance, made four letter Saxon words nasty. It's why *** and *** and *** are filtered by forum software, while excrement and coitus and **** are not.
So at first I reckoned to wait until post 1210, the next famous day in British history, when the barons forced John to promise not to punish any free man without trial. This Magna Carta is taught in school as the first constitutional limits on regal power. That's history. Problem is, I'd need 143 posts to reach that number, by which time I'd be distracted streaming sarcasm again and that dang number would sneak right past me.
Luckily, unhistory came to my rescue. A mere 34 years after that unlucky arrow, in 1100, Henry Beauclerk had to sign a Charter of Liberties, promising not to sell bishoprics or steal dowries and let people marry who they want, or else his nobles and prelates wouldn't have let him climb up on the throne. This was well and truly the first in a long series of contracts between English speaking peoples and their rulers. Craploads of Wat Tylers laid their heads on the block in the process. This is how our forebears replaced the rule of power which applies everywhere else with the rule of law which is our peculiar birthright. A long series of emancipations regrettably in rapid retreat today. But nobody remembers the C of L, which makes it unhistory; even though the consequences of unhistory equally linger, so that the C of L led directly to the MC.
Well, one year ago this week, third week of March, also marks important unhistory. Do you know what happened? These events dove-tail so neatly with 1100 and 1210 and Wat Tyler and Habeus Corpus and all those centuries of struggle now being systematically undone, that I adjusted my aim, bided my 34 posts, and here we are, third week of March, at post number 1100, year of the unfamous Charter of Liberties.
So here's what I want you to do. One simple rule: No cheating with google or wikipedia or such not. Be on your BOTL honor to scratch your own head on this. Just tell me what two remarkable unhistorical events consonant with this theme started and ended this third week of March just one year ago among English speaking peoples. First one to name them both gets a fiver of aptly named Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan Cigars.
Yep. It's all going to dovetail together, from conquest to beauclerk to black market hooligan, once we see the answer.
Who's in?
http://laterdude.com
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But I'll take a total stab in the dark nonetheless:
Appointment of new US Supreme Court justice
Some kind of big European Union decision or some such
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
The protagonists in each event are mulattoes, although the events themselves are rather related to fascism than racism.
More hints later today if necessary. That don't work I'm breaking out the wiki. Gotta wrap this up by tomorrow, cause that's the unniversary of the week in question.
Un believable.
So I am going to cancel this contest off and start a brand new one of a completely different sort.
I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot. I will smoke anything, though.
To be honest, I wasn't quite certain what the question was, so I went with what I thought you were getting at.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.