Yep. During the Crieman War, the poms got on horseback and made a charge through 'the Valley of Death' in the Ukraine. The thing is, the Ukrainians who lived there probably didn't think they dwelled in such a bad place and wondered why these 19th century equivalent of football-hooligans-on-horseback were rampaging through their neighbourhood. Okay. Maybe not. But here's the re-enactment article.
On Monday, about 30 British Lancer troops and re-enactors rode across the plain where the Russian cannon had been positioned. No cannons were placed in the field from which they once discharged fatal volleys.
A bugle believed to have been used to start the charge was blown for the commemoration ride, and a small, white wooden cross was erected in the field afterward. "Many people lost their lives that day ... no great victory to either side," said Lord Cardigan, a descendant of the battle's cavalry commander, who rode with the lancers in civilian dress.
In a separate commemoration, the prince and other dignitaries marked the anniversary in a ceremony at an obelisk above the plain. About 200 British tourists watched, along with a contingent of local residents, who appeared variously perplexed and delighted by appearance of horses and dignitaries. Children ran up to the horses excitedly, while the adults hung back with little comment. A few Ukrainian naval sailors attended the ceremonies, but no one in Russian uniforms was seen.
Yeah. I'd imagine they thought WTF? Maybe I should write a novel about it and send it in to the Vogel Prize under a Ukrainian pseudonym.
TV Set Complains of Content It Has To Show... I Think
A man's TV set sent out a distress signal to a satellite.
The signal from Chris van Rossmann's TV was routed by a polar orbiting satellite to the Air Force Rescue Center at Langley Air Force Base, Va. The rescue center alerted Oregon's Office of Emergency Management who sent a Washington-state Civil Air Patrol unit to check on the SAR signal. When they arrived, Knox said, they found a beacon sending out a SAR signal from a helicopter on top of a flatbed truck. But it wasn't the only signal, and the air patrol tracked the other signal to the Toshiba TV set. Toshiba did give the Corvallis man a replacement set.
If I were a TV set and I had to show reality TV to a guy in middle America, I might send a distress signal too.
- Art Neuro
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Adam Swann, a fictional character created by RF Delderfield for his epic trilogy on England "God is an Englishman" and "Theirs was the Kingdom" and another, was a member of the light brigade who had not been allowed to ride because he and his horse wasn't fit on the day. His Father had fought at Waterloo and his son was involved in the Natal skirmish that terminated with 150 soldiers holding out against 20 000 zulu at a homestead.
I get told things and I forget things. It is a natural order, of a kind. English are famed for their games and game play. They created them and they lose them. However, although Waterloo has been described as an example of superior English athleticism and discipline from game play ala Rugby, It is interesting to note that actual soldiers who heard that story who had fought at Waterloo held the theory in contempt.
Game play for the middle class and poor is a recent thing. Game play as popularised by Rugby did not become routine, school run activity until after the 1850's when the industrial revolution allowed an expanding middles class and the now very noticeable expansion of liesure time.
I'm all for reenactments of history, except when the Yankees lose.
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