Små historiska fakta som kan vara intressanta i rollspel

JohanL

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"Now come all ye hunters who follow the gun
Beware of your shooting at the setting of the sun
For Polly’s own true love he shot in the dark
But oh and alas Polly Vaughn was his mark.

For she’d her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan
Oh and alas it was she Polly Vaughn"
 

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En hel del grejer man kan använda sig av på ett eller annat sätt i det här SR avsnittet: Syndiga, snygga och snuskigt goda – därför går körsbär aldrig ur modet 19 april 2024 - Stil | Sveriges Radio
"De har beskrivits som både oskuldsfulla och sexiga och syndiga – och de är sedan länge överallt förekommande inom mode, måleri, mat och musik. Vi talar förstås om körsbär.

Vi ska bege oss in i en värld av rosa blommor och röda bär (eller stenfrukter, om man ska vara petig) för vi ska titta lite närmare på vårt vurmande för körsbär, och dess blommor.

Nästa vecka (den 28 april) firas till exempel ”Körsbärsblommans dag” i Kungsträdgården i Stockholm då parkens körsbärsträd (förhoppningsvis) står i full blom.

Men mest firar man förstås i Japan där körsbärsblomman har blivit synonym med japansk kultur. Och själva körsbärsblomningen – sakura – får inte bara japaner att gå man ur huset för att fira med picknicks under de blommande träden, det lockar även miljontals turister till Japan för att njuta av den skira, men kortvariga, skönheten. En skönhet som symboliserat flera saker under historien.

Körsbär är också en sorts perenn inom mode, där både formen och färgen på frukten är återkommande favoriter. Under hösten 2023 sipprade till exempel nyansen ”cherry red” in i massor av modemärkens kollektioner. Och inom makeup blev ”Cherry Girl” populärt, en stil som beskrivits som ”en balans mellan oskuld och förförelse”.

Det skulle faktiskt kunna vara en, ganska så på pricken, beskrivning av hur själva körsbäret i sig har tolkats genom tiderna, och fortfarande gör för den delen.

I veckans program tittar vi närmare på körsbärets symbolik inom konsten tillsammans med konstvetaren Veronica Hejdelind. Vi träffar också formgivaren och illustratören Lotta Kühlhorn. Ett återkommande motiv i hennes design är frukt, bär och grönsaker. Körsbär är hennes stora favorit. Och så pratar vi med sommelièren och smakexperten Mischa Billing om körsbärets dekadenta smak.

Veckans gäst är Petra Holmberg, Japan-intendent på Världskulturmuseerna."https://sverigesradio.se/topsy/ljudfil/srse/9291780.mp3
 

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Bägge de två mest kända personerna från Ingolstadt heter Adam - Adam Weishaupt, Illuminatigrundaren; och Frankensteins monster.
 

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Den här författarintervjun har en hel del smågrejer som kan användas i allmänt världsbyggande rörande marknadsplatser, försöken att reglera dem (o varför), o hur dessa saker tar sig uttryck. Sedan är den allmänt bra för inspiration rörande saker man kan använda för att ge färg till ett äventyr i historiska Hongkong:

Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023) - New Books Network
"How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management?

Today’s book is: Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong, 1842-1981 (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2023), by Dr. Carmen C. M. Tsui. Integrating architecture and history, the book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive first-hand historical materials. Readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes. This book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history.

Our guest is: Dr. Carmen C. M. Tsui, who is an architect and urban historian. She is an associate professor in the Department of History at Lingnan University, HKSAR. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in the history of architecture and urbanism.

Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, the producer of the Academic Life podcast. She holds a PhD in history, which she uses to explore what stories we tell (and why) and what happens to those we never tell."
 

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Eastern vs Western Siegecraft: When the Chinese Besieged a Russian Star Fortress in 1686 (youtube.com)
"In 1686, Chinese cannons bombarded the Russian fortress of Albazin for several weeks. The Qing Kangxi Emperor had sent an army to the frigid and inhospitable east of Siberia to capture the fortress and stop the expansion of the Tsardom of Russia in the region. But despite relentless bombardment, superior numbers, and ferocious assaults, his troops still struggled to capture the fortress. This was not due to any fundamental inferiority of the Chinese forces to the Tsardom’s troops. Instead, the trouble arose from the clash of Eastern siege methods with a Western-style star fortress with bastions. Chinese siege tactics differed significantly from those practiced in the West, which typically featured massive fortifications with bastions, systematic trench digging, and the use of heavy artillery. In this video, we’ll investigate the reasons for these differences and examine how early modern Chinese siege warfare differed from that in Europe."
 

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Prof. Ronald Hutton | Neolithic British Religion | Whatever Happened to the Earth & the Sun? (youtube.com)
"This talk is concerned with the ways in which professional British archaeologists have written about the cosmological aspects of Neolithic ceremonial monuments over the past hundred years. Their interpretations have altered very significantly during the past five decades, and the alterations concerned may provide some very interesting insights into changes in modern British culture. The talk is intended to discuss those insights, and in the process to ask the question of whether some of the most important areas of human experience have become neglected as the result of these changes in academic thinking.
Ronald Hutton is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Arts in the University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Learned Society of Wales, and the British Academy. He represents both history and archaeology on the Board of Trustees which runs English Heritage, and chair of the Blue Plaques Panel which awards commemorative plaques to historic buildings. He has published fifteen books on aspects of political, social, cultural and religious history, including a monograph on the English Civil War, a narrative history of the Stuart Restoration, a biography of Charles II, two surveys of what is thought about the pagan religions of ancient Britain, two large-scale studies of the history of the ritual year in Britain, an analysis of Siberian shamanism, the first history of modern paganism in Britain, and two surveys of the treatment of Druids in British culture over the centuries. He was formerly a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and has been at Bristol since 1981."
 
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