Readbag users suggest that Submarine Warfare in the is worth reading. The file contains 814 page(s) and is free to view, download or print. World War 1 in Colour is a documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh. The first of its six parts aired on 1 September 2003 in the United Kingdom. It was released on DVD. A description of tropes appearing in Turn A Gundam. An Alternate Universe of the Gundam meta-series. Actually, it is THE Distant Finale to the meta-series. Gates of Vienna. Note: Takuan’s post (which was originally published last night) is to remain at the top for a while, so I made it “sticky”. However, much has happened since it went up, including the Blogger outage. Scroll down for a report on that. See also: Two forthrightly anti- Semitic Islamic leaders in Norway, Judicial coddling in Germany, and Part 3 of the Imran Firasat interview. More new posts will be added below this one. Oh, and don’t mess around with JIM. The essay below is the conclusion of the ninth part in a series by Takuan Seiyo. Wwi In Colour - Episode 1 - Catastrophe EscapeTo mark Remembrance Week 2014 the BBC is broadcasting a raft of programmes across BBC TV, radio and online that will help the nation pause to remember the. Scenario. Blackadder Goes Forth is set in 1917 on the Western Front in the trenches of World War I. Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is a professional. War Movies: Media Resources Center UCB, UC Berkeley. This is a static page that is no longer maintained. US Revolutionary War. US Civil War. It's wrong to say Germans ignore WWI. While they may not remember the details of their own family history, the larger geopolitical history is burned into their. After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week, we got the message: It’s Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address. See the list at the bottom of this post for links to the previous installments. Left: Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1. Right: George Grosz, Metropolis, 1. The Bee and the Lamb. Part 9 (continued)By Takuan Seiyo. A Whole New Road to Serfdom. That Which is Not Seen (continued)For over 6. White mea- culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting: education high and low; paper media, then electronic, then digital media; all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory (e. K- 1. 2) and discretionary (e. Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Male Supremacism, Racism, Antisemitism, and so on. Delcampe.net is the best auction website dedicated to collectibles: stamps, postcards, coins. Alphabetical List of TV: Educational; Return to Alphabetical List Index # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z _____ :: # :: _____ 1000 Ways To Die. It’s the evils of the Iberian Inquisition — which were evil — but not the evils of the Japanese equivalent in which, in the 4. Christians were publicly crucified, burned or beheaded. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 1. Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. It’s America’s destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanism’s destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre- Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa. It’s the evils of feudalism and industrial workers’ exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next season’s seed. Wwi In Colour - Episode 1 - Catastrophe LyricsFeminism, Socialism and anti- Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed (except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody). American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you don’t know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL. One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another people’s territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim “No Thanks for Thanksgiving” as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too. Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one- third of America. The self- defined “Feminist- Tauist- Neo. Pagan- Post- Structuralist- Deconstructionist- Socialist” useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2. Dear White People by “wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same.”Yet the Magyars don’t seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair- haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, don’t agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 3. 8 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about “Cortez the Killer”, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1. Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique “eliminationist antisemitism” in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization — the Holocausts — stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 2. Slavs, and that’s counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone. In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non- German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 5. Bolsheviks in Russia, or Mao’s 7. China, or the Mughal- Muslim genocide of Hindus — the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 1. In relative numbers, in just one year, 1. Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B? The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser? Inscription on the back (in German): “Ukraine 1. Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod.”There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 2. Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time. Turn A Gundam (Anime) - TV Tropes. The white wings of moon butterflies Flicker down the streets of the city, Blushing into silence the useless wicks of sound- lanterns in the hands of girls. An Alternate Universe of the Gundam meta- series. Actually, it is THE Distant Finale to the meta- series. In the Correct Century, the people of Earth are living in a world roughly at the turn of the 2. What they do not know, however, is that they are not the first incarnation of mankind. Far in the past, there were humans living on the moon who, after a great catastrophe, were forced to go into cryo- stasis and await the time when it is safe to return to the Earth. In the meantime, they occasionally send scouts to the Earth to see if it has returned to a state where people can live on its surface once more. Among these scouts is a young boy named Loran Cehack. At the start of the series, the people of the moon (descriptively dubbed "The Moonrace") decide that they and their superior technology wish to return to the open air and full gravity of Earth. This, understandably, leads to some confrontation with the people already there. Loran, who had been living on Earth a few years ahead of time, has grown attached to the people there and, after Falling into the Cockpit of a mobile suit that has been buried in the earth for millennia, proceeds to defend the Kingdom of Bostonia as tensions build between Earth and the Moonrace, and the threat of war spirals ever higher. A.. a.. V.. this series (which is pronounced "Turn A Gundam"—because that symbol's an "A" ''turned'' upside down, get it?) premiered in Japan in 1. It's notable as the last original Gundam work by creator Yoshiyuki Tomino (before he came back for Gundam Reconguista In G, itself mentioned as taking place at some point after the Correct Century), his first outside the Universal Century timeline begun by the original series, and arguably one of his best efforts. It also came after he finally won his years- long battle with depression, thus rather stunningly averting his Kill 'em All reputation. After years of No Export for You, Bandai Entertainment announced—using This Very Wiki itself to provide the hint (by listing three tropes from this page at random—the listed tropes have been bolded for your convenience)—that it would be licensed for a Fall 2. Comic- Con 2. 01. After years of back- and- forth involving Bandai's withdrawal from the US market entirely and some re- negotiating of licenses, Turn A is finally available in English subtitles from the Rightstuf anime web- store as of Summer 2. The series' characters are also represented in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam (which is the only place they are voiced in English). Aborted Arc: About two thirds through the series, Phil overthrows Dianna and is set up to become the Big Bad. A few episodes later, the protagonists head to space and Phil and his ambitions are forgotten until the final arc, where he is forced to ally with the heroes to stop the Ghingnham Fleet. Action Girl: Sochie Heim, Poe Aijee, Cancer Kafka, Mayolito. After the End: If you believe the backstory, there's actually been quite a few. Ambiguously Brown: Loran, Miashei and Guin Lineford. Ancient Conspiracy: While the Moonrace is more aware of what happened in the Black History, the real truth was kept hidden even from themselves out of fear that it would reawaken humanity's warrior potential and shatter the "never again" status quo that's kept the Moon peaceful. Queen Dianna however simply considers the excuse as prejudice. And I Must Scream: A Fridge Horror version of Gym's ultimate fate. According to supplementary materials, the Turn A, and presumably the Turn X, are capable of regenerating themselves and their pilot endlessly. Given that the Moonlight Butterfly is just an extension of the Turn units' nanomachines, there is every reason to believe that Gym will be trapped in the Moonlight Butterfly's cocoon, fully conscious, for all time. Animation Bump: The animation is good throughout, but it becomes especially high- quality during the Final Battle. And Man Grew Proud/Future Imperfect: On Earth, much of what's known about the Black History (or the pre- Correct Century past in general) come from old legends and whatever could be scrounged from archaeological finds until the real truth is revealed. Though given what the Moonlight Butterfly apocalypse did, it's very much justified. The Adeskan legends in particular surrounding the Bough of Ades aka, the Sacktregar, which recount how giants took down a tree reaching to the stars, are evidently a corrupted retelling of how a once- functional mass driver and a space elevator was torn down at some point by mobile suits. Then along comes Gundam 0. An epic case of foreshadowing? Anyone Can Die: It may not be a Kill 'em All series, but come on, who expected Gavan Gooney to go out in a nuclear bang midseries? Artistic License - Geography: This map◊ places many of the important landmarks much farther apart from each other than they seem in the show. For example, Vicinity and the Mountain Cycle are within one night's walking distance in the show, but on the map they're in central Jersey and West Virginia. Archaeological Arms Race: All the major Earth- bound factions are trying to dig up and salvage old mobile suits from previous Gundam Eras. Armchair Military: A good chunk of the Moonrace's military forces (particularly Gym's faction) don't have any actual combat experience outside of simulations. As a result, they have no idea what war is really like, let alone how to wage a real one. On the other hand, it's strongly impliws that others like Harry Ord and the Royal Guards avert this out of neccesity, given how skilled and competent they are. Ascended Fanboy: Gym, of all people. He finally gets to wage a war and give meaning to his life as a soldier. After playing wargames for 2. This may also be a tongue- in- cheek reference to his voice actor, who was a long time Gundam fan before landing various roles in the franchise. As You Know: An amusing justified example - Dianna and Kihel use these sorts of conversations to brief each other on their roles when one's impersonating the other. Asshole Victim: Midgard, after getting a mobile suit- scale Bright Slap from Harry Ord. Not even Queen Dianna, despite her comments about the law, is particularly saddened with his demise. Attack Pattern Alpha: Subverted. The Mahiroo Team used such tactics in their simulations, but they just don't work on actual opponents like Harry and Loran. Authority Equals Asskicking: Plenty—Cancer of the Red Team, the King of Adeska, and Gym Ghinganham. Award Bait Song: After All, sung by Donna Burke is definitely one, though some of the other songs also qualify. But considering who composed the soundtrack.. Badass: Harry Ord by way of being an Ace Pilot. Beam- O- War: Given how much he hates killing people, Loran's favourite use for the Turn A's rifle is not to blow up mobile suits with it, but to disrupt and redirect enemy beam attacks. Berserk Button: Corin Nander does not like Gundams. Big Damn Heroes: Loran does this for the Militia very often. Harry Ord pulls it off a few times too."Blind Idiot" Translation: One of the songs is named "Puff The Pussy Puzzle". That said, some of the songs with vocals are done in fluent, English, with a number of them done by native English speakers. Bloodless Carnage: Not that there's much carnage to speak of, but when there is, it's usually this. Blood Knight: Big Bad Gym Ghingnham and his minions. Bodyguard Crush: Harry, on Kihel. Break Out the Museum Piece: The eponymous Gundam and other mobile suits that are dug out of mountain cycles. Loran tries to do this with the weapons cache that came with the White Doll, but they're so old and ravaged by nanomachines that only one of them works. Breather Episode: Episode 8, "Laura's Cow", is a subversion. While most of the episode consists of a fairly silly plot about finding animals to help a Moonrace settler provide for his family, the ending has Loran confess to everyone that he's one of the Moonrace. Broad Strokes: Towards non- UC shows. The only concrete AU references are the infamous horse and windmill Gundams from Mobile Fighter G Gundam and Corin Nander's memories of Wing Zero, which only appear for a second. The rest are just random clips from previous shows played on holoscreens. Bunny- Ears Lawyer: Corin Nander is pretty loony and at the same time one of the first opponents Loran faced that gave him serious trouble. He's not charming or evil enough for Affably Evil or similar tropes. But What About The Space Colonies?: It's revealed in the Black History that at some point prior to the Moonlight Butterfly, those Spacenoids who hadn't gone to the Moon simply took off for greener pastures across the stars, their homes becoming impromptu Generation Ships. But by the time the series takes place, there's still a handful of debris still floating around the Earth Sphere, presumably the remains of Colonies unlucky enough not to get out in time. This is later referenced in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED with the GENESIS device, the doomsday weapon Patrick Zala intended to use to destroy the Earth, which is actually a repurposed nuclear booster intended to be affixed to space colonies. We get to see one used for its intended purpose in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray. A sidestory manga for Mobile Suit Victory Gundam shows this happening as well in the Universal Century, with a specially modified colony filled with Newtypes on the verge of setting off to Proxima Centauri as a Generation Ship. We also learn that the whole thing was a decades- long gamble by Judau Ashta. The fate of Newtypes meanwhile, for all their roles in the Black History is left open. Odds are they've either left with the aforementioned Colonies, gone extinct or assimilated into the general population at large. Guin Rhineford is one, at least according to the novelization, judging by his ability to control the fearsome Psyco Gundam.
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