Life With Father... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_With_Father
Posted on 08/18/2016 11:34:48 AM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).
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Life With Father... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_With_Father
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No doubt the inspiration for the song, “Stompin’ at the Savoy.”
=running away=
Ah, Savoy, my favorite minor European power to play in Europa Universalis IV. If you can successfully walk the tightrope of not pissing off either France or Austria, you can quickly take over Italy, Switzerland and southern Burgundy and you’re close enough to the straits of Gibraltar to get some New World colonies only a few years after the Spanish and Portuguese. I usually establish “Savoyan Brazil” and “New Savoy” on the North American eastern seaboard and then England gets forced to take the scraps I leave them :)
whoa, i’m not the only freeper who plays EU4?
Per Wikipedia:
The Cristoforo Colombo was a small to medium sized unprotected cruiser with a steel hull and was completed in 1894. The ship retained the same machinery of the earlier version, however the earlier ship’s speed of 16 knots was reduced to 13 knots as the engines could not produce the original power. The main armament was eight 4.7 in., 40-caliber guns, later reduced to six.[2]
The Cristoforo Colombo had copper sheathing on its hull and was intended as a station ship for the Red Sea, where Italy had imperialist ambitions in Eritrea (already a colony) and Ethiopia (which had to be abandoned in 1896 after the bloody defeat at Adowa). This ship was similar in armament and performance to unprotected cruisers such as the Spanish Reina Cristina or the German Cormoran types, also meant for colonial duties. This type of ship was adequate for patrols of distant stations and gunboat diplomacy but were supplanted by faster protected cruisers in combat roles.
Check out the article in the left-hand column of page 1, entitled, “Battle Between Negro Ball Players.” In some ways it reads like the news from today’s headlines...
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