RPG Hoard Milestones: 1750–1775 The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. Cartoon originally appearing in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754 Representatives of the colonial governments adopted the Albany Plan during a larger meeting known as the Albany Congress. Prior to the Albany Congress, a number of intellectuals and government officials had formulated and published several tentative plans for centralizing the colonial governments of North America. The Albany Congress began on June 19, 1754, and the commissioners voted unanimously to discuss the possibility of union on June 24. The Albany Plan was not conceived out of a desire to secure independence from Great Britain.
The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800 On the afternoon of September 23, 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, from his Monticello home, wrote a letter to Benjamin Rush, the noted Philadelphia physician. One matter dominated Jefferson’s thoughts: that year’s presidential contest. Indeed, December 3, Election Day—the date on which the Electoral College would meet to vote—was only 71 days away. Jefferson was one of four presidential candidates. As he composed his letter to Rush, Jefferson paused from time to time to gather his thoughts, all the while gazing absently through an adjacent window at the shimmering heat and the foliage, now a lusterless pale green after a long, dry summer. Though he hated leaving his hilltop plantation and believed, as he told Rush, that gaining the presidency would make him “a constant butt for every shaft of calumny which malice & falsehood could form,” he nevertheless sought the office “with sincere zeal.” Jefferson was not alone in believing that the election of 1800 was crucial.
Diceless Roleplaying Game Rules - links Historically "diceless" in roleplaying games has really meant free of "artificial" randomizers not simply dice, and such is the case of most of these games. "Non-artificial" randomizers are acceptable, these are generally balanced / non-transitive game choices which often map to real world choices. Free Diceless Games Active Exploits - Allocate Effort (actually a fatigue based limit but integrates ability value nicely) and Luck/Revelation - Core Mechanics Free - local copy - also listed under commercial games below. Ancient Arenas - a Lost Worlds Roleplaying Game - a card based extension to transform this gladiatorial picture book game. Argument Diceless Roleplaying - think of the title like a fencing term rather than an evocation of belligerance. Alternate Roleplaying Concepts a Diceless Roleplaying Game with an absolutist bent which attempts to eschew numbers and invoke the cinematic. Attack of the Mutant Rules System! Daidolos a german language diceless rpg... would that I spoke german.
At Its Core, the Declaration of Independence Was a Plea for Help From Britain’s Enemies On a warm summer’s day in Philadelphia in 1776, early in the throes of American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrestled with the opening sentences of a document that would bring much-needed help to the embattled colonists. After over a year of war with Britain, the military situation was dire. Without the direct intervention of Britain’s adversaries, France and Spain, the colonies could not hope to prevail against the superior British army and navy. Americans, therefore, celebrate the Fourth of July under false pretenses. Nothing could be further from the truth. The colonists already had decided to break free from British rule. But so far, the American nation had proven stunningly incapable of fending for itself, like a rebellious adolescent who takes leave of his family without a penny to his name. Jefferson knew that neither the French nor the Spanish king would take sides in a British civil war. The effect of Paine’s words was almost immediate. And they did.
The Nobilis Role Playing Game This page is primarily for people interested in the Nobilis role playing game. Included here is a summary of the system, house rules that I have developed, and assorted other tidbits. The official unofficial page is at www.chancel.org if you are interested. There is also a mailing list archive at Nocturne . Nobilis is a diceless role playing game set in the modern times. A more complete summary of the system as described in the book is provided by my friend Ry in the following synopsis. As stated before, the setting (at least in the Earthly realm) is the modern world. I have included some topics of consideration for those thinking of playing. This page is maintained by Charles Schmidt. Nobilis, is designed and written by R.
We Could Have Been Canada And what if it was a mistake from the start? The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices and madness of American life since then have occurred not in spite of the virtues of the Founding Fathers but because of them? The Revolution, this argument might run, was a needless and brutal bit of slaveholders’ panic mixed with Enlightenment argle-bargle, producing a country that was always marked for violence and disruption and demagogy. Look north to Canada, or south to Australia, and you will see different possibilities of peaceful evolution away from Britain, toward sane and whole, more equitable and less sanguinary countries. No revolution, and slavery might have ended, as it did elsewhere in the British Empire, more peacefully and sooner. No “peculiar institution,” no hideous Civil War and appalling aftermath.
The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats By Josh Quittner It wasn't Trashcan Man's idea to raid rec.pets.cats, though I'm sure he wished it had been. Inciting a riotous Usenet flame war, like the war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats, isn't a common notion of a good time. If you're a reader of alt.tasteless, as I am, you've probably heard of Trashcan Man. Trashcan Man's two favorite possessions are a coin purse made from a kangaroo scrotum and a tin of Vegemite. You can buy it in health food stores. Trashcan Man has yet to sample his: "I fear it, man, I fear it," he says, wistfully. Which is an intriguing thought: Trashcan Man fearing something. You should know that Usenet, the battleground for what has become known as The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats, is the Internet's answer to Time Warner's 500 channels of cable. Usenet is like a vast computer bulletin board, readable by more than 10 million people around the world every day. WELCOME TO ALT.TASTELESS 1.
Talkin’ ’bout a revolution The Means of Avoiding Troubles is to trace those who have caused many anxieties and irreparable losses by G. DevereIf you wanted to rethink revolution, 1988 looked like the best of times: 300 years after the Glorious Revolution and on the eve of France’s revolutionary bicentennial. In hindsight, it turns out to have been the worst of times, as the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftershocks soon upended the study of revolution and its meaning. Watson’s scepticism about revolution fitted the temper of his time. Watson’s elegantly argued thesis imploded almost immediately after 1989. The revisionists were also revised. Meanwhile, the very violence of revolution has blurred the boundaries between revolution and civil war, as it did for contemporaries in the past. David Armitage is the Lloyd C.
The Domesday Book Online - Home Are oaths inclusive or exclusive? First collected edition of Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1674–1678‘Oaths are but words, and words but wind/Too feeble implements to bind’, Samuel Butler suggested in his Restoration satire Hudibras. It was to such ‘feeble implements’ however, that Sajid Javid, the UK government's Communities Secretary, resorted in suggesting that an oath of allegiance to ‘British values’ should be sworn by all holders of public office. Javid’s proposal was in turn prompted by Dame Louise Casey’s recently published report into social cohesion, which also urged an ‘integration oath’ aimed at migrants. Most of the responses to the mooted new oath have focused on what precisely ‘British values’ might mean. Critics of Goldsmith’s 2008 proposals noted that the inspiration behind these new oaths of loyalty was American not British. Looking at the history of oath-taking in England, however, can also reveal some of the problems with seeing these devices as solutions to problems of social cohesion and integration.