Maximillius

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Sometimes lacking all conviction, sometimes full of passionate intensity (26)

Photo of the cover of Nick Lloyd’s The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War 1914-1918
Excerpt from The War that Ended Peace: he spoke slowly and distinctly in French while Grey did the same in En-glish." He did, though, develop a grudging admiration for the British. Queen Victoria's funeral was chaotic: "But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.”
Expert from an Athletic article “I don’t think he goes in the second round. Absolutely not. That’s too big of a gamble — no pun intended. If the third round goes by, and then the fourth round goes by, why wouldn’t someone take him late and think they can fix him? These coaches all think they can fix ’em. That’s part of the problem. Very rarely can they, but they all try.”
Wikipedia article expert: “Indiana has been the largest steel producing state in the U.S. since 1975, with the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana being the largest single steel producing area in the U.S., accounting for 27% of all U.S. steel production.”
Wikipedia excerpt reading: “As of October 2023, the party was represented in two national parliaments, with ten seats in the National Assembly of Armenia and three seats in the Parliament of Lebanon as part of the March 8 Alliance.”
Pezeshkian, Larijani among top Iranian officials marching in Tehran al-Quds Day rally: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian and Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, were among the many top Iranian officials marching in Tehran for the annual al-Quds Day march. Other key officials attending included Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, according to state media images. Their public appearances came as Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth claimed that Iranian leaders had "gone underground cowering".
Per The Athletic: Plenty of other veteran quarterbacks could operate O'Connell's offense with varying degrees of effectiveness and upside. Murray, Geno Smith and Kirk Cousins could be looking for new teams, while Derek Carr would entertain the idea of un-retiring to lead a team like the Vikings.
The infamous Sam Darnold “Out Indefinitely Mononucleosis” graphic
Passage from Ring of Fire reading: When people did spend, shops were battlegrounds. With the possibility of supplies running out, panic erupted. At the same time, traders put up their prices. 'Our bread was rising in such an alarming way that it was necessary to study astronomy to see it, 33 said one Argentinian newspaper. In the Dutch East Indies,
Page from a book reading: “The winter of 1870 saw the start of large private armament factories in France, in the service of national military operations. Private industry started supporting the war effort in December, along with imports from Britain. The two largest private companies, Schneider and Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, both produced cannon. Industrial workers were exempt from conscription.”
For now, however, Parisians seemed united behind the cause of war. The Constitutionnel published a chilling account of the streets of Paris, of the cries for 'Blood!' in the streets, where vast surging crowds, and warlike cries and snatches of the "Marseillaise," the "Chant du Départ," and "Mourir pour la Patrie," are resounding on all sides. But a young child - wrote the Constitutionnel - identified the contradiction in terms embedded in cries of Vive la Guerre. If guerre means killing, and vive means living, the child asked, how can you say, 'Live Death?" The Constitutionnel ended with a look to the future: 'Is it out of the mouth of this "babe and suckling" that the philosophy of the twentieth century is foreshadowed?'
Sugar cookie shaped like a gingerbread person frosted blue with green eyes
HoI4 Bulgaria, tooltip hovering over factories showing 197 civ factories, 89 owned and 93 from trade
Italy's Victor Emanuel III (r. 1900-1946) worked much less hard than Franz Joseph - he spent most of his time in Piedmont or on his estates at Castelporziano and, though he did make an effort to get through some diplomatic dispatches, he also spent around three hours a day reading newspapers and meticulously listing the errors he found in them. The Italian king cultivated close relations with his foreign ministers and he certainly supported the momentous decision to seize Libya in 1911, but direct interventions
An MP said the approach was "utterly unhinged and self-destructive," adding: "They're in the bunker shooting everyone who's outside the bunker guarding it. And poor oblivious Keir doesn't even realise he's in the bunker."
Excerpt from ESPN article: "Rob seems to be in a pretty desperate place on how important it is to get this salary cap because he's floating the word lockout two years in advance of our collective bargaining agreement (expiration)," Castellanos said. "That's nothing to throw around. That's the same thing as me saying in a marriage, 'I think divorce is a possibility. It's probably going to happen.' You don't just say those things."
Screenshot of the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article which reads: Tiocfaidh ár lá (Irish pronunciation: [ˈtʲʊkiː aːɾˠ ˈl̪ˠaː] TCHUH-kee ar lah); is an Irish language sentence which translates as "our day will come". It is a slogan of Irish republicanism. "Our day" is the date hoped for by Irish nationalists on which a united Ireland is achieved.[1][2] The slogan was coined in the 1970s during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and variously credited to Bobby Sands or Gerry Adams.
Screenshot of a fictional SCP Foundation EAS video. White text on a black analog broadcast type background reads “You are now likely to be safe.”
Millennium Dawn tooltip for the US showing that it's in a recession. Al Gore is also President.
Modded map of the US in Millennium Dawn focusing on Kentucky, with Louisville having a victory point value of one
Pop-up Millennium Dawn news event about a civil war in Iran in June of 2000. To the right of it Iran is split in two along a general north-south axis.
BBC mobile news alert stating: “Russell Brand says is has been an ‘extraordinary and distressing week’ after sexual assault allegations were made against him”
A pink Pegasus rubber duck set into a crack in the exposed bedrock at central park
Citi Field with the Mets at bat and the Mariners pitching
Text from Matt Ruff’’s novel The Mirage which reads “BANK OF IRAQ, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DINARS. ‘Not legal tender in this reality,’ David Koresh joked. ‘And not worth much in any.’”
Wikipedia article screenshot which reads: “From the founding of the Republican Party in the 1850s until the 1960s, only Republicans won general elections for Vermont's statewide offices. One method that made this possible was imposition of the "Mountain Rule." Under the provisions of the Mountain Rule, one U.S. Senator was a resident of the east side of the Green Mountains and one resided on the west side, and the governorship and lieutenant governorship alternated between residents of the east and west side. Nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor were allowed two one-year terms and, later, one two-year term. For nearly 100 years, likely Republican candidates for office in Vermont agreed to abide by the Mountain Rule in the interests of party unity.”