Hint to the Person
in the Closest Geographical Guess: I moved to the nation of your death about
20 years after you passed from this mortal realm. I have also now been identified, but not by
you.
Deadline
for Turn 6 is: September 29th at 7am my time
Excerpts from The Nelson Encylopedia
by Paul Milewski
All page citations are to The Nelson
Encyclopedia by Colin White.
On 11 August 1799, King Ferdinand of Naples made
Nelson the Duke of Bronte, a region in the northwest of Sicily close to the
famous volcano Etna… On his death it
passed, along with his English title, to his elder brother William. When William later died without a male heir,
the English title of Earl Nelson passed to his sister’s son. The Italians, however, were more enlightened
and allowed titles to descend in the female line, so William’s daughter
Charlotte became Duchess of Bronte. [Page 74]
[Charlotte
Brontë, the author, was born in 1816 to Maria and
Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty
or Prunty).
According to the BBC, this change in Charlotte’s family’s last name to Brontë was in honor of Nelson.]
John
Lapenotiere (1770—1834) is best known as the man who
brought home the news of the Battle of Trafalgar to Britain in late 1805… In 1802, he was given command of the shooner HMS Pickle
and served in her at the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805). After the battle, on 26 October 1805, Vice
Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, who had succeeded to the command of the fleet
after the death of Nelson, ordered Lapenotiere to
return to Britain with his official despatches. Despite high winds and heavy seas, the Pickle made the voyage of more than a
thousand miles in just over eight days…
His famous feat in bringing home the Trafalgar despatches
in such record time is honored to this day by the Royal Navy with “Pickle
Night” dinners, traditionally held on, or near, 6 November. [Page 163]
A
small island in the centre of the Mediterranean,
Malta commands he relatively narrow channel between the southernmost tip of
Sicily and North Africa, and so it has long been regarded as a key strategic
position. After vbeing
occupied for more than 300 years by the Knights of St John of Malta, it was
seized in June 1798 by a special French expeditionary force, under General
Napoleon Bonaparte, on its way to the conquest of Egypt. The Maltese rose in arms against their new
overlords and appealed to the British for assistance. Nelson responded by sending a small
detachment of his fleet under the command of Captain Alexander Ball… The French were forced to retreat into the
massive fortress of Valetta, where they managed to hold out for almost two
years. Eventually, however, they
surrendered on 5 September 1800 and the British took control, with Ball being
appointed civil commissioner in 1801. By
the terms of the Treaty of Amiens (1802), Malta was to be returned to the
Knights but, realizing the strategic importance of the island and fearing the
return of French influence, the British delayed the transfer. When war broke out again in 1803, Malta was
still in British hands and so it remained until it gained independence in 1963. [Page 170]
The
usual method of disposing of the bodies of those killed in naval battles was to
bury them at sea but Nelson’s officers knew that his country would wish to do honour to his remains.
A method, therefore, had to be devised of preserving the body so that it
could be transported home to England. So
Surgeon William Beatty arranged for a large wooden storage cask, known as a
“leaguer’, to be filled with brandy and the body, dressed only in a shirt, was
placed in it. As a result, the body was
still in a reasonable condition when the Victory
eventually reached England some six weeks after the battle.
TO THE RESPECTIVE CAPTAINS OF THE SQUADRON
Vanguard off the Mouth of the Nile,
2nd day of August, 1798
Almighty
God having blessed His Majesty’s Arms with Victory, the Admiral intends
returning Public Thanksgiving for the same at two o’clock this day; and he
recommends every Ship doing the same as soon as convenient. [Page 265]
Nelson’s faith was essentially “patristic” and
“monotheist”. He seldom mentioned Jesus
Christ, preferring instead to address all his petitions directly to God. [Page
213]
ZERO SUM, Subzine
to Eternal Sunshine, Issue 26
August 27, 2014
Published by Richard Weiss. richardweiss@higherquality.com
Where In The World Is Kendo Nagasaki: Round 6 received zero
guesses. This game is officially
over.
With the end of
WITWIKN is the end of Zero Sum. I’ve
enjoyed the return to a more active role in the hobby. Thank all of you who played or commented over
the past two years. If Quartz/Tween has
a better participation rate, you might catch me there in the future.
The person was Linus Pauling, the only person to
receive two individual Nobel Prizes in different areas. I’ve pasted some of Wikipedia snippet about
him.
Linus was at the South Pole. I thought the South Pole was about at sea
level. I was shocked when I looked it up
last month. The pole is 2,835 feet above
sea level, with more than 2,700 of the feet being the ice sheet. The North Pole varies in altitude, between 6
and 10 feet above sea level.
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Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August
19, 1994)[4] was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist,
author, and
educator. Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry
and molecular biology.[7]
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He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks
among the most important scientists of the 20th
century.[5][6]
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For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry in 1954. In 1962, for his
peace activism,
he was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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This makes him the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel
Prizes. He is one of only four individuals to
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more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen, and
Frederick Sanger).
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Pauling is also one of only two people to be awarded Nobel
Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie
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Where In The
World Is Kendo Nagasaki
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ROUND ONE GUESSES AND THOUGHTS
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Guess Name
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Location
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Heath Gardner
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Mike Krzyzewski
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At the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Jim Burgess
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Euripedes
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At the Summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan
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Kevin Wilson
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Sir Edmund Hillary
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At the Summit of Mount Everest
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Doug Kent
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Amadeus Mozart
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Ankara, Turkey
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Round 1 Clue, from
Kendo Nagasaki: You are higher than me, in more ways than one.
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ROUND TWO GUESSES AND THOUGHTS
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Location
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Kevin Wilson
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Socrates
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Taj Mahal
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Doug Kent
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Geoffrey Rush
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Mt. Ararat
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Clue, from Kendo
Nagasaki: “You are higher than I am. I
am taught to students in the “hard sciences.”
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ROUND THREE GUESSES AND THOUGHTS
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Doug Kent
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Plato
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Flying Tiger Gorge, China
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Round 3 Clue: You are the farther from me than any other
winner of a clue so far. You are higher
than me, also. I am taught in more disciplines.
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ROUND Four GUESSES AND THOUGHTS
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Player
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Guess Name
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Location
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Tom Howell
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Isaac Newton
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Jericho Synagogue, also known as Wadi Qelt Synagogue, West Bank
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Jim Burgess
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Mount Washington, NH
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Kevin Wilson
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Albert Einstein
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Angkor Wat
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Doug Kent
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Euclid
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Great Barrier Reef
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Round 4 Clue
to person with closest guess: You are a couple of thousand miles closer
to me than any other guess this time or in preceding rounds. We are both
dead; however, I, at least, met Richard Weiss. We are both considered
founders/Fathers of one or more fields of science.
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ROUND Five GUESSES AND THOUGHTS
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Player
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Location
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Doug Kent
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Carl Sagan
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Grand Canyon, AZ
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Mark Firth
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Richard Feynman
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Alhambra, Granada
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Round 5 Clue
to both guessers: Each of you are very far away, but the closer is
less than 100 miles closer. I was born
before each of you and died in between you.
I did not have to share a Nobel Prize.
Also, I have an errata. I am higher than the Round 2 closest
guess.
Acquire Game #2 -
“Juliet” – Eternal Sunshine
Players: Tom Howell,
Mark Firth, Andy Bate, Richard Weiss, Hank Alme
Turn 3
Hank
plays 6-D and buys 3 American.
Turn 4
Tom
plays 9-E and buys one each of Continental, Luxor, and Worldwide.
Mark
plays 5-H and buys two Continental and one Festival.
Andy
is up!
Diplomacy
“Dulcinea” 2008C, End Game
See
the Bourse game for Jim Burgess’ EOG
“Dulcinea” Diplomacy Bourse – End Game
Hugh Polley: With the
fall of Vie Bourse Master predicts a Turkish Win! So much for my prediction
and a top finish, still 69K not too bad for late entry.
Jim
Burgess: TURKEY (game) and DUKE OF
YORK (Bourse)
The main thing to say about this game is that I
started it intending to win the Bourse as Duke of York and that I wanted the
ideal outcome to be a 17-17 that would mess with the other Bourse players'
heads. Mission accomplished. I asked Doug at the very beginning if he
REALLY wanted Bourse players to also be in the game, since I was going to
manipulate it. He said "go
ahead" and I did. If you have any
complaints on that make them to him.
I knew Don Williams (and we miss him) was VAIONT
from the beginning, and I wondered if there were other Bourse players in the
game. This was my main focus early. I usually am TERRIBLE at playing Turkey and
sort of ignoring the game actually helped me.
Eventually, Lance in Austria emerged as the 17-17 deal person with me
using my "Duke of York" persona to berate the English Phil
Murphy. But the game really went sour
for me when Lance Anderson had tough life issues and had to step away. And Martin Burgdorf
who took over Austria was not interested in my 17-17 entreaties. I should have realized that Martin also was
in the Bourse, but I thought Rothschild was Rick Desper,
wrong.... But this made it even better
when my old pal Hank Alme took over England from Phil
and Hank agreed to the 17-17 plan! It
probably wasn't a coincidence that Martin was in the Bourse and Hank wasn't.
Well, then it was just the long and mostly fun tactical
slog to win it. Martin almost beat me
early, but I outmaneuvered him, and then of course we planned a round the world
convoy in traditional fashion to end the game.
I had a lot of fun. I hope some
of the rest of you (both Bourse and game) did as well. Thanks to Lance for his friendship early in
the game, I hope you're doing better now, thanks to Hank for the last minute
diplomatic discussions, and thanks to Don Williams for
everything.
Semper the Best....
Diplomacy
“Jerusalem” 2012A, F 11
England (John Biehl – jerbil “of” shaw.ca): A
Belgium – Norway,
A
Burgundy Supports F Spain(sc)
– Marseilles, A Gascony Supports F Spain(sc) –
Marseilles,
A
Kiel Supports A Berlin (*Ordered to Move*), F Mid-Atlantic Ocean - Western
Mediterranean,
F North
Sea Convoys A Belgium – Norway, F Norway - Barents Sea, A Paris - Burgundy
(*Fails*),
F
Portugal - Mid-Atlantic Ocean, A Ruhr Supports A Kiel, F Spain(sc) – Marseilles,
F
Sweden Supports A Belgium - Norway.
Italy (Mark Firth – mark.r.firth “of” capita.co.uk): F Ionian Sea Supports F Tyrrhenian Sea – Naples,
F Tyrrhenian Sea – Naples, F Western Mediterranean - Tunis.
Russia (Richard
Weiss – richardweiss “of” higherquality.com): A Berlin - Kiel
(*Fails*),
A
Finland - St Petersburg (*Bounce*), A Moscow - St Petersburg
(*Bounce*), A Sevastopol – Rumania,
A St
Petersburg - Livonia.
Turkey (Geoff Kemp -
ggeoff510 “of” aol.com): F Aegean Sea –
Greece, A Bohemia Supports A Munich,
A
Bulgaria Supports F Aegean Sea – Greece, F Constantinople - Aegean Sea, A
Marseilles Hold (*Disbanded*),
A Munich
Supports A Berlin – Kiel, F Naples Hold (*Dislodged*, retreat to Apulia
or Rome),
F
Piedmont Supports A Marseilles, A Serbia Hold, A
Silesia Supports A Munich, A Trieste – Venice,
A Tyrolia Supports A Munich, A Vienna - Trieste.
All Draw Proposals Fail
Now Proposed – Concession to England. Please vote. NVR=No.
W 11/S 12 Deadline is September 29th at 7:00am my
time
Supply Center Chart
England:
Belgium, Brest, Denmark,
Edinburgh, Holland, Kiel, Liverpool,
London, Marseilles,
Norway, Paris, Portugal, Sweden=13, Build 1
Italy:
Naples, Rome?, Spain, Tunis=3 or 4, Even or Build 1
Russia:
Berlin, Moscow, Rumania,
Sevastopol, St Petersburg, Warsaw=6, Build 1
Turkey:
Ankara, Budapest, Bulgaria,
Constantinople, Greece, Munich, Serbia,
Smyrna, Trieste,
Venice, Vienna, Rome?=11 or 12, Even or Remove 1
PRESS
Meerkat Manor: "Well" said 'Straight Tail' (Ita), "look who did lie, 'Twisted Tail' (Rus) did."
Kiel (Nov 1, 1911): The Second Field Army of
the British Empire salutes the Russians in Berlin with a simultaneous mass
`Moon` and a mass `Fart`.
Diplomacy
“Walkerdine” 2012D, S 07
Austria
(paul.milewski “of” hotmail.com): A Serbia - Greece
(*Fails*).
France
(Jim Burgess – jfburgess “of” gmail.com): F Apulia Supports F Tyrrhenian Sea - Ionian Sea,
F
Brest - Mid-Atlantic Ocean, F Eastern Mediterranean Supports F Ionian Sea -
Aegean Sea,
F
Edinburgh - Norwegian Sea, F English Channel Supports F North Sea, F Ionian Sea
- Aegean Sea,
A
London – Yorkshire, F Marseilles - Gulf of Lyon, F Norwegian Sea - North
Atlantic Ocean, A Paris – Burgundy,
F
Tyrrhenian Sea - Ionian Sea, A Venice – Trieste, F
Western Mediterranean - Tunis.
Germany
(Steve Cooley – tmssteve “of” gmail.com): F Barents Sea Supports A Norway, A
Berlin – Munich,
A
Galicia Supports A Trieste – Budapest, A Moscow
Supports A Warsaw – Ukraine, A Munich – Tyrolia,
F
North Sea Hold, A Norway Supports A St Petersburg, A St
Petersburg Supports A Moscow,
F Sweden
– Denmark, A Trieste – Budapest, A Vienna Supports A Trieste – Budapest, A
Warsaw - Ukraine.
Russia
(Hank Alme – almehj “of”
alumni.rice.edu): F Adriatic Sea Supports A
Budapest – Trieste,
A
Budapest - Trieste (*Dislodged*, retreat to Rumania or OTB), A Sevastopol
Hold.
Turkey (Civil
Disorder): A Albania U, A Armenia U, F Constantinople U, F Greece U.
Deadline
for F 07 is September 29th at 7am my time
PRESS
BOOB
to EAST:
C'mon, at least build when you can...
JIM-BOB
CONTINUES TO MOURN DON:
I am still playing this game for Don in so many ways, let's at least talk,
guys!
Black
Press Gunboat, “Fred Noonan”, 2013Arb32, F 09
France: F Brest Supports A Picardy, A Burgundy Supports A Picardy (*Cut*),
F
Edinburgh Supports F North Atlantic Ocean - Norwegian Sea, F English Channel
- Belgium (*Fails*),
F
North Atlantic Ocean - Norwegian Sea, F Norwegian Sea - Barents Sea, A Picardy Supports A Burgundy,
F Spain(sc) - Mid-Atlantic Ocean.
Germany:
F Belgium Supports F Helgoland Bight -
North Sea (*Cut*), F Helgoland Bight - North Sea,
A
Holland Supports F Belgium, A Munich - Burgundy (*Fails*), F Norway
Supports F Helgoland Bight - North Sea,
A
Ruhr Supports F Belgium, A Silesia Supports A Galicia - Warsaw (*Void*).
Italy: NMR!
F Apulia Hold, A
Budapest Hold, F Eastern Mediterranean Hold, A Serbia Hold,
F
Tyrrhenian Sea Hold, A Vienna Hold.
Russia: A St Petersburg Supports A Warsaw – Moscow, A Warsaw - Moscow
(*Fails*).
Turkey: A Bulgaria Supports A Rumania, A Galicia Supports A Silesia -
Bohemia (*Void*), F Greece Hold,
F
Ionian Sea – Tunis, A Moscow Hold, F Naples Holds, A
Rumania Supports A Galicia,
A
Sevastopol Supports A Moscow, F Smyrna - Eastern Mediterranean
(*Fails*).
All Draw
Proposals Fail
Now
Proposed – F/I, F/G/I/R/T. Please vote, NVR=No.
Deadline
for W 09/S 10 Will Be September 29th at 7am My Time
Supply Center Chart
France:
Brest, Edinburgh,
Liverpool, London, Marseilles, Paris, Portugal, Spain=8, Even
Germany:
Belgium, Berlin, Denmark,
Holland, Kiel, Munich, Norway, Sweden=8, Build 1
Italy:
Budapest, Serbia,
Trieste, Venice, Vienna=5, Remove 1
Russia:
St Petersburg, Warsaw=2,
Even
Turkey:
Ankara, Bulgaria,
Constantinople, Greece, Moscow, Naples, Rome, Rumania,
Sevastopol, Smyrna, Tunis=11, Build 2
PRESS
T
=> R:
Well, I've got more than you at least.
T to
all:
These Turkish "press" statements are becoming a heap of a mess. I
urge all other players to abstain from pretending to be me.
Fra-Ger: I do not understand why you persist in attacking me
when Turkey is on your doorstep. What
must I do to convince you that I only wish to support you against our common
enemy?
Fra-GM: It is so sad to be
misunderstood.
GM –
Fra:
Tell me about it.
Russia
- World:
Actions speak lowder than words.
ITALY
to RUSSIA:
OK, so the schizophrenic Turk seems to have it out for me for some reason. I hope you ignored his senseless advice, it is time for everyone to stop Turkey!
Ger-Fra: If you leave me
alone a little bit, we all can knock Turkey back.
Benign
Observer to the Game:
This press is confusing, the only one who is clear is Turkey, so everyone
should attack him, being clear is not Diplomacy!!!
Diplomacy “Sweet Spot” 2013A, F 08
England
(Harold Zarr - skip1955 “of” hotmail.com): A London
Hold,
F
North Atlantic Ocean Supports F Western Mediterranean - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
(*Void*).
France (Melinda Holley – genea5613 “of” aol.com): F Belgium Supports F Holland,
A
Burgundy Supports A Marseilles, F Holland Supports A
Kiel, A Kiel Supports A Munich,
A Marseilles
Supports F Spain(sc), F
Mid-Atlantic Ocean Hold, A Munich Supports A Kiel.
Italy (Hank
Alme - almehj “of”
alumni.rice.edu): F Gulf of Lyon Supports A Marseilles,
A
Portugal Supports F Spain(sc),
F Spain(sc) Supports A Portugal, A Trieste Supports A
Vienna,
A Tyrolia Supports A Trieste, F
Tyrrhenian Sea Supports F Gulf of Lyon, A Vienna Supports A Trieste,
F
Western Mediterranean Supports F Spain(sc).
Russia
(Civil Disorder): A Berlin U, F Denmark U, A Edinburgh U, F
North Sea U, A Norway U,
F Norwegian Sea U, A Silesia U, F Skagerrak U, A Warsaw U.
Turkey
(Larry Peery – peery “of”
ix.netcom.com): F Aegean Sea Supports A
Greece,
A
Albania Supports A Serbia, A Budapest Supports A
Galicia, A Galicia Supports A Budapest,
A
Greece Supports A Albania, A Serbia Supports A
Budapest, A Syria Hold.
All Draw
Proposals Fail
Now
Proposed – E/F/I/R/T, E/I/R/T, F/I/R/T, Concession to England, Change of Game Name to Sitzkreig. Please vote.
NVR=No.
Deadline
for W 08/S 09 Will Be September 29th at 7am My Time
Supply Center Chart
England:
Liverpool, London=2, Even
France:
Belgium, Brest, Holland, Kiel,
Marseilles, Munich, Paris=7, Even
Italy:
Naples, Portugal, Rome,
Spain, Trieste, Tunis, Venice, Vienna=8, Even
Russia:
Berlin, Denmark,
Edinburgh, Moscow, Norway, Rumania, Sevastopol,
St Petersburg, Sweden, Warsaw=10, Plays 1 Short
Turkey:
Ankara, Budapest, Bulgaria,
Constantinople, Greece, Serbia, Smyrna=7, Even
PRESS
Eng – Europe: I will support
my friend in Italy to the end.
Eng – Ita: You can gain access to the Mid-Atlantic if you just try.
New Proposal:
To change the name of the game from Sweet Spot to Sitzkreig.
Please vote. NVR = Yes
Instead of the traditional boring Peeriblah press this time I am submitting some
untraditional and very unboring press in support of
my proposal to rename the game. No doubt you will find much of it is repetitive
but that is the essence of Peeriblah and, on
occasion, you will find a bit of the true wisdom that Peeriblah
always aspires to but seldom attains. In this case, who would have thought to
make the intellectual leap from sitzkreig to sitz bath to hemorrhoids?
Please read the following before casting your vote to decide
the future of Sweet Spot:
SITZKREIG ACCORDING TO GOOGLE
1. Phoney War
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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5. World War 2 History: Sitzkrieg- The Plan to Wait for Hitler
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Winston Churchill referred to the same
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sitzkrieg n. Warfare marked by a lack of aggression or progress.
[Coined on the model of BLITZKRIEG : German Sitz , ac.
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Sitzkrieg [sitskrg] sitskrg 1. a derogatory term for the inactivity on the western front in
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Dec 4, 1990 - ... France and Great
Britain declared war. The months that followed were known as the "sitzkrieg," or "phony war," with the British
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SITZKREIG ACCORDING TO BING
• Phoney War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
Terminology . Contemporaneously, the period of the Phoney
War had also been referred to as the "Twilight War" (by Winston
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• Terminology •
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• Saar offensive •
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: static warfare —called also blitzkrieg Origin of SITZKRIEGGerman
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Phoney War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Phoney
War
Part of the Western Front of World War
II
A British artillery position near the
German border during the Phoney War
Date October 1939 – April 1940
(7 months and 4 days)
Location Maginot Line, Siegfried Line
Result Battle of France
Belligerents
Allies:
France
United Kingdom
Free Polish
Axis:
Germany
The Phoney
War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major
military operations by the Western Allies (the United Kingdom and France)
against the German Reich. The phase covered the months following Britain's and
France's declaration of war on Germany (shortly after the invasion of Poland)
in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940. War was
declared by each side, but no Western power had committed to launching a
significant land offensive, notwithstanding the terms of the Anglo-Polish and
Franco-Polish military alliances, which obliged the United Kingdom and France
to assistPoland.
Contents
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• 1 Terminology
• 2 Inactivity
• 3 Saar offensive
• 4 Winter War
• 5 German
invasion of Denmark and Norway
• 6 Change of British government
• 7 End of the Phoney
War
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 External links
Terminology[edit]
Contemporaneously, the period of the Phoney War had also been referred to as the "Twilight
War" (by Winston Churchill), the Sitzkrieg[1] ("the sitting war": a play on blitzkrieg) and
the "Bore War" (a play on theBoer Wars). In
Polish, it is referred to as the Dziwna Wojna ("strange war"), and in French, as the drôle de guerre or "strange war".
The term "Phoney
War" was possibly coined by US Senator William Borah who stated, in
September 1939: "There is something phoney about
this war."[2]
Inactivity[edit]
While most of the German army was
engaged in Poland, a much smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, their
fortified defensive line along the French border. At the Maginot Line on the
other side of the border, British and French troops stood facing them, but
there were only some local, minor skirmishes, while in the air there were
occasional dogfights between fighter planes. The Royal Air Force droppedpropaganda leaflets on Germany and the first
Canadian troops stepped ashore in Britain, while western
Europe was under a period of uneasy calm for seven months.
People of Warsaw outside the British
Embassy with a banner which says "Long live
England!" just after the British declaration of war with Nazi Germany
When Leopold Amery suggested to
Kingsley Wood that the Black Forest be bombed with incendiaries to burn its ammunition
dumps, Wood- the Secretary of State for Air- amazed the member of parliament by
responding that the forest was "private property" and could not be
bombed; neither could weapons factories, as the Germans might do the same.[3]
Indeed, the sense of unreality was maintained when some British officers
imported packs of foxhounds and beagles in 1939, but were thwarted by the
French authorities in their attempts at introducing live foxes.[4] Civilian
attitudes in Britain to their German foes were still not as intense as they
were to become after The Blitz. In April 1940 a German Heinkel
bomber crashed at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, killing its crew and people on the
ground. They were all laid to rest in the local cemetery which was provided
with support from the Royal Air Force. Wreaths with messages of sympathy for
the casualties were displayed on the coffins.[5]
Meanwhile, the opposing nations clashed
in the Norwegian Campaign. In their hurry to re-arm, Britain and France had
both begun buying large amounts of weapons from manufacturers in the US at the
outbreak of hostilities, thereby supplementing their own production. The
non-belligerent US contributed to the Western Allies by discounted sales, and
later, the lend-lease of military equipment and supplies.
Despite the relative calm on land, on
the high seas the war was very real. Within a few hours of the declaration of
war, the British liner SS Athenia was torpedoed off
the Hebrides with the loss of 112 lives in what was to be the beginning of the
long running Battle of the Atlantic. On 4 September, the Allies announced a
blockade of Germany to prevent her importing food and raw materials to sustain
her war effort, the Germans immediately declared a counter-blockade.
At the Nuremberg Trials, German military
commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not
collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the
Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and Britishdivisions
in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German
divisions."[6]
General Siegfried Westphal
stated, that if the French had attacked in force in September 1939 the German
army "could only have held out for one or two weeks."[7]
Saar offensive[edit]
A French soldier examines a German
street sign during the Saar Offensive
Main article: Saar Offensive
The Saar Offensive was a French attack
into that region defended by the German 1st Army in the early stages of World
War II. Its purpose was to assist Poland, which was then under attack. However,
the assault was stopped after a few kilometres and
the French forces withdrew.
According to the Franco-Polish military
convention, the French Army was to start preparations for a major offensive
three days after the beginning of mobilization. The French forces were to
effectively gain control over the area between the French border and the German
lines and were to probe the German defences. On the
15th day of the mobilisation (that is on 16
September), the French Army was to start a full-scale assault on Germany. The
preemptive mobilisation was started in France on 26
August, and on 1 September full mobilisation was
declared.
A French offensive in the Rhine river
valley area (Saar Offensive) started on 7 September,
four days after France declared war on Germany. Since the Wehrmacht was
occupied in the attack on Poland, the French soldiers enjoyed a decisive
numerical advantage along their border with Germany. However, the French took
no meaningful action to assist the Poles. Eleven French divisions advanced
along a 32 km (20 miles) line near Saarbrückenagainst
weak German opposition. The attack did not result in the diversion of any
German troops. The all-out assault was to have been carried out by roughly 40
divisions, including one armoured, three mechanised divisions, 78 artillery regiments and 40 tank
battalions. The French Army had advanced to a depth of 8 km (5.0 miles) and
captured about 20 villages evacuated by the German army, without any
resistance. However, the half-hearted offensive was halted after France seized
the Warndt Forest, 7.8 km2 (3.0 sq
mi) of heavily mined German territory.
On 12 September, the Anglo French
Supreme War Council gathered for the first time at Abbeville. It was decided
that all offensive actions were to be halted immediately as the French opted to
fight a defensive war, forcing the Germans to come to them. By then, the French
divisions had advanced approximately 8 km (5.0 miles) into Germany on a
24-kilometre (15-mile) long strip of the frontier in the Saarland area. General
Maurice Gamelin, ordered his troops to stop no closer than 1 km (0.62
miles) from the German positions along the Siegfried Line. Poland was not
notified of this decision. Instead, Gamelin informed
Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły that 1/2 of his
divisions were in contact with the enemy, and that
French advances had forced the Wehrmacht to withdraw at least six divisions
from Poland. The following day, the commander of the French Military Mission to
Poland, General Louis Faury, informed the Polish
Chief of Staff — General Wacław Stachiewicz — that the major offensive on the western front
planned for 17–20 September had to be postponed. At the same time, French
divisions were ordered to withdraw to their barracks along the Maginot Line.
The Phoney
War had begun.
Winter War[edit]
Main article: Winter War
A notable event during the Phoney War was the Winter War, which started with the
Soviet Union′s assault on Finland on 30 November 1939. Public opinion,
particularly in France and Britain, found it easy to side with democratic
Finland, and demanded from their governments effective action in support of
"the brave Finns" against their much larger aggressor, the Soviet
Union, particularly since the Finns' defence seemed
so much more successful than that of the Poles during the September
Campaign.[citation needed] As a consequence of its attack, the Soviet Union was
expelled from the League of Nations, and a proposed Franco-British expedition
to northern Scandinavia was much debated. British forces that began to be
assembled to send to Finland's aid were not dispatched before the Winter War
ended, and were sent to Norway′s aid in the Norwegian campaign, instead.
On 20 March, after the Winter War had ended, Édouard
Daladier resigned as Prime Minister of France, due (in part) to his failure to
aid Finland's defence.
German invasion of Denmark and Norway[edit]
Main article: Norwegian Campaign
The open discussions on an Allied
expedition to northern Scandinavia, also without the consent of the neutral
Scandinavian countries, and the Altmark Incident on
16 February, alarmed the Kriegsmarine and Germany by
threatening iron ore supplies and gave strong arguments for Germany securing
the Norwegian coast. Codenamed Operation Weserübung,
the German invasion of Denmark and Norway commenced on 9 April. From the 14th,
Allied troops were landed in Norway, but by the end of the month, southern
parts of Norway were in German hands. The fighting continued in the north until
the Allies evacuated in early June in response to the German invasion of
France; the Norwegian forces in mainland Norway laid down their arms at
midnight on 9 June.
Change of British government[edit]
Main article: Norway Debate
British Ministry of Home Securityposter of a type that was common during the Phoney War
The débâcle
of the Allied campaign in Norway, which was actually an offspring of the never-realised plans to aid Finland, forced a famous debate in
the House of Commons during which the British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain was under constant attack. A nominal vote of confidence in his
government was won by 281 to 200, but many of Chamberlain′s supporters
had voted against him while others had abstained. Chamberlain found it
impossible to continue to lead a National Government or to form a government of
national unity (in Britain often called a "coalition government", to
distinguish it from Chamberlain's existing national government), around
himself. On 10 May Chamberlain resigned the premiership whilst retaining the
leadership of the Conservative Party. The King—George VI—appointed Winston
Churchill—who had been a consistent opponent of Chamberlain's policy ofappeasement—as his successor, and Churchill formed a new
coalition government that included members of the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Party as well as several ministers
from a non-political background.
End of the Phoney
War[edit]
Most other major actions during the Phoney War were at sea, including the Second Battle of the
Atlantic fought throughout the Phoney War. Other
notable events among these were:
• 17 September 1939, the British
aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was sunk by U-29. She went down in 15 minutes
with the loss of 518 of her crew, including her captain. She was the first British
warship to be lost in the war.
• 14 October 1939, the British
battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk in the main British fleet base at Scapa Flow,
Orkney (north of mainland Scotland) by U-47. The death toll reached 833 men,
including Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove, commander of
the 2nd Battleship Division.
• Luftwaffe air raids on Britain began
on 16 October 1939 when Junkers Ju 88s attacked
British warships at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth.
Spitfires of 602 and 603 Squadrons succeeded in shooting down two Ju 88s and a Heinkel He 111 over
the firth. In a raid on Scapa Flow the next day, one Ju
88 was hit by anti-aircraft fire, crashing on the island of Hoy. The first
Luftwaffe plane to be shot down on the British mainland was a He 111 at Haddington, East Lothian, on 28 October, with both 602 and
603 Squadrons claiming this victory.[8][9] 602 Squadron's Archie McKellar was a
principal pilot in both the destruction of the first German attacker over water
and over British soil. McKellar went on to be credited with 20 kills during the
Battle of Britain, as well as "ace in a day" status by shooting down
five Me-109s; a feat accomplished by only 24 RAF pilots during the entire war.
• In December 1939, the German pocket
battleship Admiral Graf Spee was attacked by the Royal
Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate.
Admiral Graf Spee fled to Montevideo harbour to carry out repairs on damage sustained during the
battle. She was later scuttled rather than face a large British fleet the Kriegsmarine falsely believed was awaiting her departure.
The support vessel for Admiral Graf Spee, the tankerAltmark was captured by the Royal Navy in February
1940 in southern Norway. (see: Battles of Narvik, Altmark Incident)
The warring air forces also showed some
activity during this period, running reconnaissance flights and several minor
bombing raids. The Royal Air Force also conducted a large number of combined
reconnaissance and propaganda leaflet flights over Germany. These operations
were jokingly termed "Pamphlet raids" or "Confetti War" in
the British press.
On 10 May 1940, eight months after
Britain and France had declared war on Germany, German
troops marched into Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, marking the end of
the Phoney War.
References[edit]
1. Jump up^ "The Phoney War". History Learning Site.
2. Jump up^ "Defiant Peace Bid
Hurled By Hitler". The
Pittsburgh Press. September 19, 1939.
3. Jump up^ Atkin, Ronald (1990).
Pillar of Fire: Dunkirk 1940. Edinburgh: Birlinn
Limited. p. 29. ISBN 1 84158 078 3.
4. Jump up^ Reagan, Geoffrey. Military
Anecdotes (1992) pp. 108 & 109, Guiness
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5. Jump up^ Reagan, Geoffrey. Military
Anecdotes (1992) pp. 198 & 199, Guiness
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6. Jump up^ "Trial of the Major
War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal" XV. Nüremberg.
1948. p. 350.
7. Jump up^ "World at War" -
France Falls - Thames TV
8. Jump up^ "1939 - Into
Action". The Spitfire - An Operational History. DeltaWeb
International.
9. Jump up^ "Junkers Ju88
4D+EK". Peak District Air Accident Research.
Woolworth
II-D “Coney Island” 2013Bcb19, W 06/S 07
Balkans
(Secret): Bld A Ser..A Swi-Bur,
F Alb-Tri, A Gre-Alb, A Ser S F Alb-Tri, A Pie S A Tyr-Swi, A Tyr-Swi.
England
(Secret): Bld F Lpl..F Lpl-Iri, F Bre-Mao, A Lon H.
France (Civil
Disorder): Ret F Tun-OTB..A
Bur U.
Italy
(Secret):
F Por S F Mad-Mao, F Gol S
F Tys-Wms, A Mar S A Swi-Bur,
A Rom S A Ven, A Ven S F Alb-Tri,
F Tys-Wms.
Russia
(Jim Burgess - jfburgess
“of” gmail.com): Bld F Stp(sc), A War..F Stp(sc)-Gob,
F Kie-Hel, F Bal-Kie,
A Ber S F Bal-Kie, A Mun-Ruh,
A Sil-Mun, A War-Sil, A Sev S A Rum
Scandinavia
(Geoff Kemp - ggeoff510 “of” aol.com): Build
F Swe..F
Ice-Wao, F Edi-Nth, F Swe S
A Den,
F Nth-Eng, A Den H.
Spain (Civil Disorder): Ret
F Mad-OTB..F Mor
U, A Bel U, F Hol U.
Turkey
(Hugh Polley – hapolley “of” yahoo.ca): Bld F Smy, A Con..F
Ion H, A Rum H, A Mac H, F Mad-Mao,
F Tun-Alg, F Smy-Ems, A Con-Smy.
Deadline
for F 07 is September 29th at 7am My Time
PRESS
Unknown
Player
- Is this A gunboat game without email? No one wants to make a deal? Germany has followed Austria off the board,
is France next to go?
Scandinavia
- Russia
- Feel free!
RUSSIA
to ALL:
The communication finally is picking up a bit!
By
Popular Demand
The goal is to pick something that fits the
category and will be the "most popular" answer. You score points
based on the number of entries that match yours. For example, if the category
is "Cats" and the responses were 7 for Persian, 3 for Calico and 1
for Siamese, everyone who said Persian would get 7 points, Calico 3 and the
lone Siamese would score 1 point. The cumulative total over 10 rounds will
determine the overall winner. Anyone may enter at any point, starting with an
equivalent point total of the lowest cumulative score from the previous round.
If a person misses a round, they'll receive the minimum score from the round
added to their cumulative total. In each round you may specify one of your
answers as your Joker answer. Your score for this answer will be
doubled. In other words, if you apply
your Joker to category 3 on a given turn, and 4 other people give the same
answer as you, you get 10 points instead of 5.
Players who fail to submit a Joker for any specific turn will have their
Joker automatically applied to the first category. And, if you want to submit
some commentary with your answers, feel free to. The game will consist of 10 rounds, with the
10th round being worth double points. A prize will be awarded to the winner. Research is permitted, but cooperation or
collusion between players is not!
Round 9 Categories
1. A fish not generally
kept as a pet.
2. A character from
“Yellow Submarine”
3. A day of the week.
4. A method of birth
control.
5. An American
supermarket chain.
Andy Lischett hit
the bottom with a score of 18. Richard
Weiss was the big winner with 62. But
can Dick Martin be stopped? The
double-point Round 10 will decide….
Selected Comments By
Category
Fish – Geoff
Kemp “People seem to keep anything nowadays, so suspect Shark is one of the few
that isn't kept as a pet.” Richard Weiss
“A fish not generally kept as a pet. Shark or piranha. I can spell shark. Shark it is.”
Marc Ellinger “Hey Shark Week did just end!” Jim Burgess “So this is sort of a trick
question. So presumably rather than
Goldfish, you want fish you eat which should be Tuna or Salmon. Or Sharks. I'm going with Tuna.”
Yellow
Submarine – Andy Lischett “a.k.a. Jeremy Hillary
Boob.” Marc Ellinger
“I guess you could always just name a Beatle, but where is the fun in that!” Jim Burgess “This was the very first movie I
ever saw in a theatre without my parents.... you also wanted me to pick
"Boob, Ph.D.", probably the inspiration of my life. But no one is going to pick him.”
Day – Brendan
Whyte “Monday. Always gets me down.” Geoff Kemp “Such an open category, hopefully
most people look forward to a Saturday.”
Birth
Control – Brendan Whyte “Malthus would say war and vice. Personally, I
prefer a nice hot cup of tea, but it doesn’t half make my willy
sore. So I’ll go with condoms (though abstinence makes the heart grow fonder,
and the willy softer).” Richard Weiss “If someone lists, "just
say no," "cross your legs," or "abstinence" my hats
off to them.” Marc Ellinger
“Revolutionized American colleges…and every guy since has
been thankful for it!”
Supermarket
– Brendan Whyte “Walmart. It tops wikipedia’s
list.” Geoff Kemp “To my shame I can't
think of any other.” Andy York “Although
Market Basket has been in the news.”
Richard Weiss “I looked this up in Wikipedia. I bet no one chooses the #1 seller. Kroger is #2.
Then Albertson's, Safeway. I
can't believe Winn-Dixie is on the list.
When I lived in the South it was a chain of dirty stores, with a name
that was exhorting the South to win the Civil war. Costco is like 6th and Target makes the
list. I've shopped in nine of the top
10. Albertson's was my first favorite
chain, with abundant produce that you could select which of each you wanted,
just open bins of them. I'll go with
Kroger, since they once interviewed me for a job and then didn't offer it to
me.” Marc Ellinger
“Who knows, too many options, since we have regional chains more than national
(unlike Europe).” Jim Burgess “I really
wanted to say Wegmans here, which is the best chain
in the country (recently noted by Consumer Reports). Walmart actually sells the most groceries and
takes Supermarket to the next level. But
I will go with Krogers, which should be the most
popular answer.” Kevin
Wilson “Just because the name is fun.”
Round 10 Categories – Double Points (Joker is therefore X 4 –
double the double)
1. A city in Florida.
2. A brand of ice
cream.
3. A borough of New
York City.
4. A film that Lauren
Bacall appeared in.
5. A Play-Doh color.
Deadline for Round 10 is September 29th at 7:00am
my time
Where in the World
is Kendo Nagasaki?
