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The Militant Doberman said:
Slavic Serpent, Arab Eagle, Punjab Rat
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The Battles of Prince Leopold, aka Slavic Serpent, Arab Eagle, Punjab Rat is an English children's rime used in history class to remember the three campaigns (Montenegro, the Sinaï and the Panjabi) fought during the War of the Third Alliance. The official full text goes:
Slavic Serpent, Arab Eagle, Punjab Rat
Our Royal Albert Leo is just that.
Fought the Serb and fought the Mahdis
Fought the Thugs of the Panjahbees
Then came home and made five sons and that was that.​

Albert Leo was Prince Albert Leopold of Belgium, Royal consort to Queen Caroline II, who actually went to fight the wars as field commander while his wife observed the Royal Duties back home. The official text however seems to be heavily bowderized with unofficial version abound where poor Albert Leo "came back home and kissed his wife and laid her flat", "came back home and fought his wife until his death" even "Burned his pipe in every port while he was att'it"

A Flemish-Dutch version where the Royal Consort "then went home to fight a chubby English cat" is still a popular skip rope tune in many schoolyards in Belgium.

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Otto the Fowler
 
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Kylia

Kylia

ennobee said:
Otto the Fowler
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A comic book hero in the German Empire in the 1970s. Otto the Fowler was a masked vigilante who fought the Vultures a French Mafia-style crime syndicate in his home city, a fictionalized version of Metz (retained by the Germans after their victories in the "Quick War" of 1914195 and the "Great War" from 1939-1946). The comics were patriotic to the point of jingoistic, and featured plots where British or Russian intelligence officials were often found to be backing the Vultures as part of schemes to undermine the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine and their puppet/ally the Third Bourbon Kingdom of France. \

Gold Upon Moscow
 
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Gold Upon Moscow
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The name of the main temple-lodge for the Russian-branch of the esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn. Built in 1916 on the banks of the Moskva river, the lodge was consecrated by Golden-Dawn founder Samuel Liddell MacGregor in a ceremony attended by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna herself (whose interests in the occult were well documented). One of the most well-known paranormal and theurgical “research” institutes in 20th century Russian Empire the lodge counted the likes of Alexander Barchenko, Agvan Dorzhiev, Gleb Bokii, Wolf Messing and others amid its alumni. Gold-Upon-Moscow operated until 1971 when it was burned down by a group of self-proclaimed Orthodox-fundamentalists, forcing the Lodge to move to a new location. Rumours of ongoing paranormal activity, supernatural events and even UFO sightings have sprung up around the location of the old lodge site — something the local inhabitants have taken advantage of & even help spread in order to promote tourist activity from thrill seekers & “paranormal investigators”.

Shogun Catholicism
 
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Persephone

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The Militant Doberman said:
Shogun Catholicism
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A term referring to any Catholic political movement/ideology in East and Southeast Asia led by a strong military leader that pursues expansionist policies, foments religious zealotry among the populace, encourages increased birth and marriage rates, and enforces Catholicization on their enemies and their people. First coined in the 1930s, it's named after the Japanese Kirishitan daimyo Dom Justo Takayama, whose 1587 rebellion against the ruling Toyotomi Hideyoshi united the Kirishitan daimyos in opposition to Toyotomi's ban on Catholic missionaries and eventually established the Takayama Shogunate, which gradually transformed Japan into the East's first Catholic country. During the period following the Great War, a number of military figures rose to great prominence in Catholic Asia, including Japanese shogun Iustus Araki, Filipino pinuno Artemio Ricarte y Garcia, and Vietnamese lãnh đạo Ngo Diem.

The Promise of a Yankee Prince
 
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Kylia

Kylia

Persephone said:
The Promise of a Yankee Prince
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Slang term in the Confederated Duchies of Dixie for something that looks valuable but is totally worthless. Stems from the failure of Prince Richard Washington to follow up on his vow to aid the Confederated Dukes in their rebellion against his tyrannical father George II and his corrupt Lord Chancellor Jefferson Davis (who had turned on his native Dixie for power). Instead, Richard chickened out at the last minute, and the Confederated Dukes were forced to fight on for six years before finally winning indepdence, though at the cost of most of the Duchy of Richmond and the entire Appalachian Marchland staying in the Kingdom of America.

The Pope of New Orleans
 

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Alkeni said:
Slang term in the Confederated Duchies of Dixie for something that looks valuable but is totally worthless. Stems from the failure of Prince Richard Washington to follow up on his vow to aid the Confederated Dukes in their rebellion against his tyrannical father George II and his corrupt Lord Chancellor Jefferson Davis (who had turned on his native Dixie for power). Instead, Richard chickened out at the last minute, and the Confederated Dukes were forced to fight on for six years before finally winning indepdence, though at the cost of most of the Duchy of Richmond and the entire Appalachian Marchland staying in the Kingdom of America.

The Pope of New Orleans
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Quote made by officials about Billy Graham, a famous religious figure there. This quote called him the "Pope of New Orleans" due to his religious importance there.

My Country for a Jeep
 
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Kylia

sampleswift said:
My Country for a Jeep
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The title of a movie in which Patrick Stewart plays Richard III in a modern adaptation of the play, set in post-colonial Africa, where Richard is a strong man dictator of an aparthiad-style regime, and a half-white/half-black Henry has lead a revolution against him. The play focuses in Richard's downfall, flight, capture and Trial before a revolutionary tribunal that may be as brutal and dictatorial as he was. The movie explored questions of revolution,racism, cyclical nature of power, postcolonial aftermath and the notion of remorse.

Azure Gold
 

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Kylia said:
The title of a movie in which Patrick Stewart plays Richard III in a modern adaptation of the play, set in post-colonial Africa, where Richard is a strong man dictator of an aparthiad-style regime, and a half-white/half-black Henry has lead a revolution against him. The play focuses in Richard's downfall, flight, capture and Trial before a revolutionary tribunal that may be as brutal and dictatorial as he was. The movie explored questions of revolution,racism, cyclical nature of power, postcolonial aftermath and the notion of remorse.

Azure Gold
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The name of a Sumerian artifact with lapis lazuri and gold in it. This was an early depiction of a battle scene.

The Rain of Blood
 

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Plateosaurus said:
A term given to when ring-tailed pheasants descend on farmers' crops, due to their colouration.

Killer Habs Fans
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Sensationalist title of a news article where a riot, supposedly about the Habs choking away a critical game, led to the death of a police officer in a stampede.

Ethnic Group Paleontology
 
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bunhead said:
The People vs. Sarah Jane Wynn
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Title of an episode from the semi-interactive Sarah Jane Wynn Show where in a dream sequence she is taken to "court" over her season arc life.
Viewers of the show regularly got to vote over minor decisions in the eponymous character's life: who to take to the dance, whether to own up to a friend cheating, etc all which had consequences later in the series.
This episode was essentially whether to continue that, or expand the control viewers had over events in the character's life. Sarah Jane Wynn had to defend her right to maintain control over her life.

Torn from Wife and Whim
 
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Kylia

The Professor said:
Torn from Wife and Whim
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A novel published in 1976 by Radical Feminist and Lesbian Separatist Diane Woodhouse. The story is about a woman abducted from a fictional island in the North Atlantic ocean, of only women, a 'paradise', in the mid 900s CE, by Viking raiders, and taken to modern Denmark, where she is subjected to countless abuses from the men and most of the 'chained in their mind' women around her. In the end, the protagonist finds what few women are 'free of mental cages' and leads them to escape Denmark, steal a longship and sale back. The book, while panned by the critics as being a strawman-filled polemic work with little depth of characters or story, and full of some of the most overwrought prose ever, was extremely popular among radical feminists and continued to be for decades, terminology and slang from the book (and its even more substandard sequels) creeping into their academic and political discourse.

Sixty Miles to Berlin
 

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Kylia said:
A novel published in 1976 by Radical Feminist and Lesbian Separatist Diane Woodhouse. The story is about a woman abducted from a fictional island in the North Atlantic ocean, of only women, a 'paradise', in the mid 900s CE, by Viking raiders, and taken to modern Denmark, where she is subjected to countless abuses from the men and most of the 'chained in their mind' women around her. In the end, the protagonist finds what few women are 'free of mental cages' and leads them to escape Denmark, steal a longship and sale back. The book, while panned by the critics as being a strawman-filled polemic work with little depth of characters or story, and full of some of the most overwrought prose ever, was extremely popular among radical feminists and continued to be for decades, terminology and slang from the book (and its even more substandard sequels) creeping into their academic and political discourse.

Sixty Miles to Berlin
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The 60 mile journey to Berlin--the last push that ended the European theater in WWII. This is a documentary.

Defeat Museum
 
ennobee

ennobee

Sankt Laurenzs Königreich or St. Laurence's Kingdom is a German student slang for a man's underwear. The term originated with Albrecht Dürer's Cooper etching 'The martyrdom of Saint Laurentius' aka 'The kingdom is within my hands', which was widely reprinted in textbooks particularly in German and Austrian 'Gymnasiums'. The image shows aforementioned Saint Laurentius stripped down to his loincloth, bound to a stake and bleeding from various wounds, raising his head towards Heaven. A stele by his feet reads 'Behold the Kingdom is within my hands', which according to legend were St. Laurence's last words. However while his eyes are looking up, through some trick of light it looks as if his right hand is grasping the swath of fabric covering his privates......

No one knows exactly when and where German students first go the notion that the 'kingdom' in St. Laurens' hands were in fact his undies, but the term 'St. Laurens' Kingdom' for a man's briefs was already widespread throughout the German-speaking countries by WWI and seems to have gotten a second boost in popularity in the German and Austrian militaries of that time. Though not in common use anymore, the slang is still known in Germany, due to it being entrenched in the soldier's slang of two world wars and therefore being widely used in the literature of that time.

Due to the massive immigration of Germans into the USA and due to the widespread use of Dürer's etch by the US Catholic Church, the expression was popular in the US as well in the first part of the XXth century, but there too, faded into obscurity after WWII.

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Sleezy, son of Sneezy
 
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Sleazy, son of Sneezy was a British press nickname for Charles III of Spain, the son of Charles II von Habsburg and Marie Louise d'Orleans. Born in 1679, Charles succeeded his father's throne in 1700. Due to Charles II's general incapacity to rule, Charles III inherited a corrupt realm whose institutions had been hollowed out by the nobility and clergy in order to enrich those two estates as much as possible. However, Charles III emerged as the most corrupt man in the kingdom. During his forty year reign, he became Europe's richest man, fathered hundreds of bastards, and hollowed out the Spanish army to the point where Spain was soundly defeated in the War of the Austrian Succession and the War of the Prussian Succession. During his reign, the American colonies created autonomous ruling committees that eventually broke with the Spanish Crown due to the economic crisis of the 1780s. In historical memory, King Sleazy is remembered as the man who arranged the crises that befell the Spanish throne during Charles IV's reign. This led to the Spanish Revolution, the Spanish-American Wars of Independence, and a Corsican colonel in the Spanish army's mostly successful restoration of the Roman Empire.

Joshua A. Norton National Monument
 
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Kylia

J. Westrate said:
Joshua A. Norton National Monument
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Joshua Norton, despite his eccentricities, was elected Mayor of San Francisco in 1854, after profiting greatly on rice sales to China during a famine several years earlier. He led the city for nearly two decades, and helped coordinate the defense of the city when British ships attacked the city as part of the British efforts to help the Confederacy seceed. For his good work and his heroic defense, he got a monument.

101 Ways to Become Roman Emperor
 
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