AH Cultural Descriptions

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2009 song by Taylor Swift making fun of her ex, Ed Sheehan, who she broke up with to marry the much older David Allan Coe. Many felt Swift had married Coe for money and hoped he’d pass away from years of drug abuse, and to convince people, she wrote a song about asking Sheeran to marry her, but he said no.

Swift and Coe had their marriage annulled after two years and eventually Coe wrote a song called “Don’t get ‘em young” which many called one of the filthiest country songs ever written.Swift just simply if lured it but her record sales dropped and eventually she spiraled into cocaine abuse and making appearances on cheap game shows.

Jones’ Folly: The Story of the Leningrad Cowboys.

The attempt of Marc Jones, US cattle magnate, to start modern cattle agriculture in the Soviet Union after the "Detente" period, which is the thawing of the Soviet vs. United States Cold War rivalry. The attempt was a failure since most Soviet citizens were still very skeptical of Americans, and the Soviet authorities were not pleased by the "Leningrad Cowboys" (term for the agricultural team recruited out of Leningrad) and their lack of good results. The project was called "Jones' folly" especially after reports of not just failing product but stories of conflicts with local Soviet citizens.

The Eagle's Corpse Scandal

 

[The_Persian_Cat]

The Eagle's Corpse Scandal

In 2006, then-Vice President of the US Dick Cheney was scandalised for shooting his friend Harry Whittington during a hunting accident. In 2007, Cheney would fall into another scandal, when he accidentally shot a bald eagle. He attempted to hide its corpse in a nearby ditch, but was caught on camera, as the ditch was on a private golf course with security cameras everywhere. This incident thoroughly embarrassed Cheney, and although it didn't have a major impact on high politics, the meme of "Cheney the Hunter" did a lot to discredit the Republican Party and boost the Democrats' popularity during the 2008 election.

Hardcore To The Mega!!!!

 

[sampleswift]

In 2006, then-Vice President of the US Dick Cheney was scandalised for shooting his friend Harry Whittington during a hunting accident. In 2007, Cheney would fall into another scandal, when he accidentally shot a bald eagle. He attempted to hide its corpse in a nearby ditch, but was caught on camera, as the ditch was on a private golf course with security cameras everywhere. This incident thoroughly embarrassed Cheney, and although it didn't have a major impact on high politics, the meme of "Cheney the Hunter" did a lot to discredit the Republican Party and boost the Democrats' popularity during the 2008 election.

Hardcore To The Mega!!!!

Weird scream from a "The Megas" band concert, where the band's fans screamed out that phrase. It exemplified the catchy but literary barren nature of songs made by "The Megas", a band active in the early 2000s. Some of the inspirations included the Mega Man series and the Gundam series. By 2010, the band became defunct and passed into pop music history.

The Time of The Skull

 

[ordinarylittleme]

The Time of The Skull

After the suicide of Adolf Hitler, his widow Eva Braun supposedly carried his skull with her after seeking asylum in America, this skull was said to have been cursed and caused the death of a dozen people who tried to approach it, surprisingly they were all "Aryans" which caused much humor to all except Braun.

Strangers (Sorry)

 

[brunohusker]

Strangers (Sorry)

A 1976 album by former member of The Byrds Gram Parsons, after he sobered up and became a Roman Catholic. He wrote the album after seeing old friends who saw him but didn’t talk to him and this came up with the album’s title.

The album was praised by many but Parsons was still know mostly as a songwriter until he found country stardom in the 80s.

What do Tigers Dream of?

 

[Tomislav Addai]

@brunohusker "What do Tigers dream of ?"
An attempt to understand the political ambitions of the members of the Bengali Triumvirate that seized power in the Sultanate of Bengal in 1926. The Sultanate of Bengal was one of the few non-European powers that industrialized successfully.
The result shows that significant differences existed between the conceptions of the members of the Triumvirate, they overall agreed on key principles.

The Decline Must Stop

 

[sampleswift]

@brunohusker "What do Tigers dream of ?"
An attempt to understand the political ambitions of the members of the Bengali Triumvirate that seized power in the Sultanate of Bengal in 1926. The Sultanate of Bengal was one of the few non-European powers that industrialized successfully.
The result shows that significant differences existed between the conceptions of the members of the Triumvirate, they overall agreed on key principles.

The Decline Must Stop

Campaign slogan of Gennady Zyuganov in an alternate 1996 Russia. In this timeline, Yeltsin never had the military fire on the Duma since the Russian military said it wouldn't do such an unconstitutional action and would risk mutiny instead. Zyuganov campaigned on reversing Russia's decline by rebuilding its military (fixing military decline), gaining a stronger geopolitical position by allying with the rising China (fixing diplomatic decline), and pulling the other ex-Soviet republics closer to Russia by trade agreements and more heavily taxing corporations (fixing economic decline). He barely scraped out a win against Alexandr Rutskoy, the incumbent. Zyuganov's terms (1996-2000 and 2000-2004) were marked by marked improvement of Russia's military, economic, and diplomatic standing, but they came at a cost. Media centralization, growing executive power and immunity, and FSB corruption (which Zyuganov didn't order, but happened since he didn't try to prevent it) meant that democracy died by 2004.

The City Where People are Born to Die

 

[TheReal_McChicken]

The City Where People are Born to Die

An epithet of the City of Rome, applied by Byzantine historian Procopius in the later years of his life. Procopius was disillusioned by the Gothic Wars, famines of italy, and the rampant destruction in the once heartland of the Empire. Upon a visit to Rome after the Gothic Wars he wrote a decription of the war torn, heavily depopulated city, bareft of its former glory, "The City Where People are Born to Die".

 

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The Diamond Dogs

 

[sampleswift]

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The Diamond Dogs

Dogs used by the South African government to help in diamond mining process. The dogs help scare off hostile and potentially hostile wildlife, as wildlife danger concerns were a problem in the mining areas where diamonds are found. The name "The Diamond Dogs" originates from this use of dogs as a hostile wildlife deterrent. This process continued until better surveillance and wildlife clearance methods happened due to better technology.

The Real_McChicken should also provide a cultural description.
On to mine:
The Pop Supernova

 

[dcharles]

The Real_McChicken should also provide a cultural description.

His shit was too good. Nobody can follow that.

:: "Never Break the Chain" plays in the background::

 

[Imielin]

The Pop Supernova

The Pop Supernova was the first AI-enhanced music album, created by the European signer Alia that utilized the Artificial Intelligence Aided Design. Songs included in the album were designed to fit into the variety of music tastes - from the songs stylized in a more classical tune, jazz, blues, disco and symphonic metal. The Pop Supernova was created as a joint project of the Kiyv Institute of Cybernetics, Pan-European Institute of Applied Sciences and the Geneva Group and scored a major success. Album was released on the Marchais Space Station on the anniversary of the French May Revolution to commemorate the successes of Francophone science.

Farscape

 

[ordinarylittleme]

Farscape

An Australian-Italian DJ known for dabbling in an experimental poly-tonal fusion of country and jazz music as well as neoclassical imagery in their music videos. Due to never revealing their identity they never achieved mainstream success in their lifetime. The lyrics which vacillated wildly from nursery-rhyme easy to difficult-to-comprehend-for-anyone-without-a-PHD did not endear them to the public either. However recently they have had a career resurrection on TikTok.

mirrorball in exile

 

[sampleswift]

An Australian-Italian DJ known for dabbling in an experimental poly-tonal fusion of country and jazz music as well as neoclassical imagery in their music videos. Due to never revealing their identity they never achieved mainstream success in their lifetime. The lyrics which vacillated wildly from nursery-rhyme easy to difficult-to-comprehend-for-anyone-without-a-PHD did not endear them to the public either. However recently they have had a career resurrection on TikTok.

mirrorball in exile

Mirrorball in Exile refers to a painting made in 1666 by Vermeer in the Dutch Republic. It was about Cato Marius, a Roman government critic who was exiled by the Sulla administration in the twilight of the Roman Republic. Cato Marius was described by later historians as a "mirrorball of the Republic", which meant that he reflected the values of the Roman Republic, and that his exile meant that the Republic was really losing its way. Indeed, the Sulla administration, while trying to save the Republic from its decline by reining in the power of publicani (often corrupt tax system) and increasing the power of local magistrates, ended up worsening the problem due to the large amount of political violence and an increase in executive overreach under Sulla himself.

The Seal's Sorrow

 

[brunohusker]

The Seal's Sorrow

A 1990 children’s book by former Air Force Veteran Bob Ross. Ross had been stationed in Alaska most of his career and grew to appreciate the land of Alaska and wanted to do something to help creatures affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, so he wrote and illustrated a childrens book. He eventually wrote more books about Alaska animals before his death in 1995.

The Happy Hobo

 

[ennobee]

The Happy Hobo

The Happy Hobo was the name retired air force pilot, illustrator and children's book author Bob Ross gave his personal plane.... Or rather all his personal planes, for there were all in all five Happy Hoboes. The last one Famously being a luxurious Antonov Air-yacht that Ross only got to test fly twice and that was still being outfitted in Kiev by the time of his death.

The most famous Happy Hobo however was Ross' third plane: a De Havilland Canada Sea Otter amphibian he used as his Flying/swimming camper van and mobile studio. The plane featured extensively in his drawings, his PBS documentaries and his childrens books. Eventually it even got its own line of beautifully illustrated easy reader storybooks in which the plane called Happy Hobo flies the animals of the Alaskan Bush to 'Letterland', where they explore reading and 'Numberland' where they indulge in arithmetic. .

The pipe-smoking bushplane 'Happ' in Pixar's 'Cars' and 'Planes' franchise is reportedly based both on the third 'Happy Hobo' as well as on Bob Ross himself.

Next up:
Green with Jasmine

 

[Imielin]

Green with Jasmine

Biographical film about Jasmine Lavigne, Divisional Air General of the European Space Forces. Green with Jasmine acknowledges her actions during the brief European-Brazillian War in 2121 when she assisted the battalion of Green Flags. Brazillian forces attacked the Lem Settlement located near the Geothermal Entrance, prompting a response from the Federal Marines, who repelled the attack and invaded Bolsonaro Settlement. As the ground forces fought each other, the spaceship from both sides exchanged fire, resulting in a series of nuclear explosions that ravaged the European landscape. Lavigne, serving as Commandant of the Nuclear Squadron halted her advance and negotiated an immediate armistice to prevent the escalation of conflict into the Interplanetary War. Green Flags is a nickname of the Anti-Radiation Forces, she had landed on Europa soil to stop the spread of the radioactive particles in the air. She was later promoted and awarded the Order of Peace by the United Nations.

Film remarks about her later exploit in the Wars of Pluto and participation in the "Crossing the Desert" - European colonization of Alpha Centauri.​

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Martian Question

 

[ennobee]

Ps...my inspiration for the title:

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[Minchandre]

Martian Question

The policy question about whether or not to let in Jewish refugees fleeing Europe during WWII, and if so how many and which.

As more and more Jews began fleeing Europe as the Nazis came to ascendancy, many American authorities wanted to take the opportunity to skim the cream of European academics and accept them. Many others, however, preferred not to let in Jews, European refugees, or - worst of all - Jewish European refugees. A famed letter to the editor of the Washington Post broke the conversation into the national consciousness, where it eventually opened up into the topic of accepting Jewish refugees in general, and not just skimming their best scientists and artists.

The anti-immigration camp popularized the term "Martians" (first coined to describe a set of Jewish Hungarian physicists and mathematicians in the 20s and 30s [this is OTL]) in order to try and emphasize their foreignness, and so the entire debate became known as "the Martian Question".

Lavender and Lilac

 

[brunohusker]

Lavender and Lilac

A song by New Zealand band The Skeeters written by songwriter and lead singer John Lennon. The song marked a departure from the Skeeters poppy style to a more experimental one that many felt was about Lennon’s first time using LSD. The song went to number one in the US and Australia but lost in Britain to Liverpool band The Quarrymen, led by Paul McCartney and Pete Best.

While The Skeeters would only get two more hits internationally, their reputation grew when John Lennon relocated to California in the 70s and got his own solo career that well surpassed his early career.

Nuns with Shotguns!