Richard J

But realistically I think it’s the Russo Japanese war

Still used black powder I think, maybe some mercury fulminate percussion caps for the bullets?

The bits of gunpowder that make it go bang, unlike more modern HE, is water soluble so any cartridges or shells will just contain mostly harmless sulphur and charcoal now

Though remarkably free of obvious modern strange attractor cognitohazards (you know the one if you liked late 90s British/Irish sitcoms) but sadly the most ancient one.

That is, as one of the replies says, quite a wiki page for the man

KAGEMUSHA (1980)

Zeteo ran an interview with Graham Platner today (paywalled, unfortunately) and I can't get past the fact that someone who literally recommends people watch "Come and See" as the ultimate anti-war movie is trying to pretend he never knew what a Totenkopf was.

Also the Grand Tetons in America too

“And how would you be knowing that, father?”

Now there’s a time capsule in the detail

Satellite imagery is remarkably good but not that good

Sadly faaaaaaakkeeee

Precisely why

“Either this is Spurs or geopolitical content”

I believe it’s something of a truism that a few strands of barbed wire and a sign saying “mines” is almost as practically militarily effective as actually laying the minefield

(Godzilla Minus One is surprisingly accurate on the process iiirc)

This would (hopefully) drag them to the surface where you could then shoot them with a rifle until they exploded

Reading how minesweeping worked in WWI and WW2 is a bit of a “Christ, rather them than me” thing.

Even before you got pressure/magnetic/acoustic mines in the mix it was basically sending two fishing trawlers (made of wood) out with a long thick metal cable between them to snag the mines.

Bit of the whole “they are underwater” problem

FRIARS ENTRY

In Oxford this was very narrow and used to vaguely smell a bit, I recall.

“Is Duncan hanging around the social space in an international organisation’s meeting room waiting for a meeting to end?” index

Gregor Mendel CREEPY PIONEER OF GENETICS

MY WIFE recently left me after a row, during which she described me as 'not a good listen-er, whilst also criticising me for spending a lot of our household income on phone sex. I do not even need to spell out the glaring contradiction in her argument, as clearly for themselves. your readers will be able to see Andrew Dunn, North Yorkshire mericans that the 's they put nd put on the end. Y

Ah Viz

'roids?

so the most consequential foreign policy negotiations this year have been led by a real-estate developer who is a golf buddy of the president and a real-estate developer who is his son-in-law? Just checking I've got that right.

Also 'it's 4pm and its dark until 9am tomorrow and your only source of light is a few reeds. what you doing?

Massive cultural phenomowotsit here in the early 90s, just reminding mutuals (via a Call of Cthulhu RPG ref) that we are now old.

at what point did you insert the 'family' caveat when writing that post.

your honour.