Monday, December 03, 2012
Today -100: December 3, 1912: Of the revictualing of Yanina
The DC Court of Appeals rules that Thomas Edison didn’t invent motion pictures and he can’t keep slapping lawsuits on anything that moves (see what I did there?). This ruling will open up the motion picture industry considerably.
Newly independent Albania is working out who its king might be, because you gotta have a king.
Greece refuses to sign the armistice in the Balkan Wars, because of “dissatisfaction with the provision permitting the revictualing of Yanina,” which is my new favorite phrase of this war: the revictualing of Yanina. Say it out loud with me: the revictualing of Yanina. Balkan poetry, that is.
Meanwhile, more threats are issued between the larger powers, with Germany threatening that if Russia supports Serbia militarily against Austria, Germany will fight alongside Austria and Italy.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hi, well Disney would agree with you (and Albania) re Got to have a King.
ReplyDeleteJust would like to add you continue to do a worldclass fantastic job, espec with the countdown to WW1.
It is heart wrenchingly painful, like watching in slow motion a child fall from its parent's arms into the path of an oncoming train.