Note: Various of the news articles are based on real world events using wiki for ideas and edited here and there to fit the Northern Kingdom.
January 1, 1910
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Prime Minister of the Northern Kingdom William H. Taft opened the New Year by inviting the general public private citizens to visit him in Bute House, the Prime Minister's residence in Edinburgh. He shook hands with 5,575 people.
January 2, 1910
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The 516 page 1910 edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was released. Arthur Day, Douglas Carr, Sidney Barnes, Vernon Ransford and Warren Bardsley were selected as the 1909 cricketers of the year.
January 10-20, 1910
The first aviation meeting to be held in the Northern Kingdom, the 1910 Gardermoen International Air Meet at Gardermoen Field, is held near Oslo.
January 13, 1910
The first radio broadcast of a live musical performance took place from Glasgow's Metropolitan Opera, which inaugurated use of a new system set up by Lee DeForest. The one-act opera "Cavalleria rusticana" was "borne by Hertzian waves over the turbulent waters of the sea to transcontinental and coastwise ships, and over the mountain peaks, amid undulating valleys of the country" with the aid of a microphone connected to a 500 watt transmitter. Wireless receivers at buildings on High Street, the Metropolitan Life Building, and St Andrew's Square picked up the broadcast, as did radio sets used by ship operators and amateur radio enthusiasts.
January 22, 1910
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The completion of construction of Glasgow's Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, at just over 213 meters tall the world's tallest skyscraper, was celebrated by the company at the Hotel Astor.
January 24, 1910
Vague reports circulate that numerous naval vessels left the various ports around the Northern Kingdom for what was said to be "long term expeditions". No one has any idea what the destinations of the ships are or which of the ships that left the ports are part of these expeditions.
January 25, 1910
Captain Asger Ingolfson was standing on the deck of the ship transporting his men to their destination. No one knew what the exact destination was of the ships except for the higher-ups in command travelling along. All Asger knew was that they were heading West for now and that C company would be the first to arrive at the destination.
Asger had been promoted about a year ago and given the command of C company, 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment of Foot. The 6th, better known as The Black Watch, was the lead regiment of the famous Iron Brigade which was considered to be one of the best Brigades in the World. Asger found it a great honor to be selected to be the lead unit of the Iron Brigade and he was eager to prove that the Iron Brigade was not just one of the best but the best Brigade in the world.
Wherever that destination would be, The Black Watch would be the first to arrive and C company would lead the way into the history books. Whoever the fools were that would be standing in the way, it would be a very, very bad day for them once they encountered C company.
January 26, 1910
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Carry Nation made another attempt at wrecking a drinking establishment today, as she invaded a dance hall in Dublin, but was warded off by proprietor May Malloy.
January 27, 1910
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Gunnar Knudsen resigned his position as Minister of Norway.
January 28, 1910
Shortly after the gift of 2,000 Japanese cherry blossom trees, from the Shogunate of Japan, arrived in Edinburgh, the Sakuras turned out to be unsuitable for replanting. Much to the dismay of First Lady Helen Taft, Prime Minister William H. Taft had to give the order to destroy the trees.
February 1, 1910
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Wollert Konow becomes the new Minister of Norway, taking over from Gunnar Knudsen.
February 2, 1910
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Billy Gohl, the "Ghoul of Aberdeen Harbour", was arrested in Aberdeen for the murder of his former henchman Charley Hatberg, bringing his string of killings to an end. Gohl, a local leader in the Sailors' Union of the Atlantic, is suspected in the murders of as many as 124 people whose bodies have been found, and of others who have disappeared.
February 15,1910
Norsk Gjærde- og Metaldukfabrik established.
February 17, 1910
A patent for the first gun safety mechanism was filed by the Browning Arms Company for a small component that would "insure absolutely against the dangerous accidental firing sometimes liable to occur if the trigger is pulled after the magazine has been withdrawn in the belief that all cartridges have been removed.
124 is a rather impressive killing spree.
We'll just blame him for all the unsolved cases of missing and murdered people even if we do not have any evidence. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Gohl
It says "Victims 2 (but possibly 100+)" (while the february 1910 events list where I got it from lists the number of 124) so that tells me that they only had evidence for him killing two of the many victims. I would assume that the amount of evidence will be the same here and since we are not Barbarians like those Romans to the south, he will be sentenced to life in prison just like OTL.
February 18, 1910
Captain Asger Ingolfson was overlooking the preparations to move further inland to reclaim Vinland. The Black Watch had been joined by several other regiments, including the 21st Regiment of Foot, also known as the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Asger was happy to have the Royal Scots Fusiliers support The Black Watch. Once their musicians started to play the bagpipes, the sound it created would send fear down the spine of any person who faced them. So far it has been quite easy though.
February 23, 1910
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St Patrick's College, Maynooth, becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
February 24, 1910
The "Norse cinephone" was unveiled at an Oslo press conference, showing technology that might make it possible to have sound on films. A trained cinephone operator would be able to synchronize a film's speed to a phonographic record "so that the gestures of a singer and actor appear at practically the same instant as the sound of the voice".
February 26, 1910
At Scone, Scotland, Princess Valeria Hardrada was crowned High Queen Valeria of the Northern Kingdom today. She is the first princess of the House Hardrada to be crowned queen since Queen Estrid the Fury back in 1701 and the first to be crowned High Queen of the Northern Kingdom since the introduction of the title of High King/Queen of the Northern Kingdom in 1710.
February 28, 1910
The last legal bare-knuckle boxing bout in the Northern Kingdom took place in Belfast, as Leo Baker and Dave Smith fought 32 rounds without gloves, with the match ending in a draw.
Following a government ruling late last year, all bare-knuckle boxing bouts will be deemed illegal within the borders of the Northern Kingdom as of tomorrow, March 1, 1910.
March 3, 1910
Stock in Sears began trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange today.
March 12, 1910
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Film actress Florence Lawrence becomes "the first movie star", after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures (I.M.P.) announced in advertisements that he had signed the leading lady who had only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios. Until now, movie studios had a policy of not releasing the names of their players, and prohibiting distributors from revealing the information. Lawrence's first I.M.P. release will be The Broken Oath which can be seen in cinemas from March 14 on.
March 15, 1910
The 46 year old Naval tugboat Nina was declared lost today and struck from the Navy list. The tug left Edinburgh early in the morning on February 6 bound for Oslo but never arrived there. The Nina had a 32 men crew who all are believed to have perished.
March 18, 1910
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The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the Nothern Kingdom by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features (unbilled) actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
March 23, 1910
Glasgow wins the 67th Glasgow and Edinburgh Boat Race.
March 26, 1910
The Immigration Act of 1910 amended existing law to deny entrance, to the Northern Kingdom, of criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons. (*)
(*) Maybe I should have added Romans as well to the list. :D
April 3, 1910
The Parliament passes a resolution about universal suffrage for women in municipal elections.
April 20, 1910
Samuel J. Scott, a 15-year-old boy working in Belfast on the construction of the SS Titanic, fell from a ladder and died of a fractured skull. Harland and Wolff have sent their condolences to the family of the young man.
April 21, 1910
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, beloved to millions of readers for his writings under the pen name Mark Twain, died at the age of 74 at his home in Dundee. Twain, who had angina pectoris, went into a coma at 3:00 pm and was dead by 6:30. Appropriately, his last words were handwritten rather than spoken, a note to his daughter Clara: "Give me my glasses"
May 12, 1910 (no exact OTL date in May given on wiki)
Irish Countrywomen's Association founded as the Society of the United Irishwomen by a group of educated and largely Protestant women in Bree, County Wexford "to improve the standard of life in rural Ireland through Education and Co-operative effort".
May 13, 1910
Woolworth's becomes the first large retail chain to sell ice cream cones, test-marketing the treat at counters at several sites that have been supplied with modern refrigerator-freezers.
May 19, 1910
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The Earth completes its passage through the tail of Halley's Comet, without any recorded deaths from cyanogen gas.
May 20, 1910
Vilhelm Bjerknes oversaw the simultaneous gathering of extensive meteorological data across the Northern Kingdom, using balloons in multiple locations.
May 29, 1910
Nationalforeningen mot tuberkulose founded.
June 3, 1910
The Norse Polar Expedition Team, led by Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen and Ernest Henry Shackleton, departed from Oslo aboard the polar exploration vessels Fram and Terra Nova without fanfare.
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Polar exploration vessel Fram
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Polar exploration vessel Terra Nova
14-23 June, 1910
Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
June 17, 1910
The Northern Kingdom Lighthouse Service was created as federal agency today to regulate lighthouses throughout the nation.
June 26, 1910 (no exact OTL date in 1910 given on wiki)
The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.
June 30, 1910
Glenn H. Curtiss demonstrated the practicality of aerial bombardment by dropping 20 mock explosives from a biplane over Bogstadvannet (Lake Bogstad) near Oslo.
By the way, it's trend from prior sims, but I continue to be impressed by the news errata accompanied by pictures.
Well, using OTL stuff helps to make it look like there is more news coming from the Northern Kingdom and sometimes there are pics available as well to add to those news bits. Doing a quick count, there are four dates where I created the news/story myself and 34 dates where I took bits of news from Wikipedia and altered it to fit the Northern Kingdom. That is a good indication as to how uncreative I am when it comes to making up fictional bits of news and stories. :)
... and I am still wondering if I should have added Romans to the list when it comes to the Immigration Act... ;D
When I ran the Wesworld Dutch I did similar, which is why I recognize and appreciate that it does take some work to put together, but also fleshes out the nation- hence the appreciation for the effort.
July 1, 1910
"Your Majesty. As you are aware, many troops have been sent forth to claim lands around the area," the Secretary of State for War, Jacob Dickinson, explained as he motioned to the map on the table.
High Queen Valeria slowly nodded as she looked down at the map. "So what can you tell me of the successes?" she asked.
"Seventeen marine divisions were successful in Erika, capturing various areas and re-securing Vinland for the Northern Kingdom. Several units are making preparations to move further inland as we speak. Marine divisions landed in several locations on Grønland, Novaya Zemlya and Ostrov Kolguyev. The commanders of those forces reported that it is quite cold but the areas were successfully secured."
"Excellent work. Send word to the forces to keep up the good work as well as some extra clothing to keep them warm."
"I shall do that right after the meeting."
"So what of the next step."
"Well, your Majesty... Depending on the movements of rival nations, we have various plans ready... so it will be like this..."
July 13, 1910
The railway line Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn opened.
July 20, 1910
Erden was a fierce Mongolian warrior and as usual he was drunk again. Laughing and cheering, he stumbled across the main street of the Border Hamlet of Dvinskoy, putting his hands on women where he should not be putting them and punching weakling men who tried to stop him from having some fun with the town's womenfolk.
As he was assaulting another woman, the door to the nearby mayor's office opened up and seven men wearing dusters and Stetson hats walked out and lined up in front of the mayor's office. People in the street quickly got inside when they recognized Marshall John S. Wellesley and his six sons. Whenever he was around there would be trouble and a lot of shooting.
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"What do you clowns want," Erden grumbled, keeping his grip on the woman.
"Oh nothing really... but from what I just heard from the mayor, you were about to leave town," John Wellesley said.
"You are going to try and make me leave?" Erden laughed. "You wish! I like it here and I will have me some fun here! Do you even know who I am?"
"A dead man... about to leave in a coffin..."
Erden stopped laughing and then pulled the crying woman closer to him. "Surely you would not shoot an innocent woman now, would you?"
At that point, Wellesley's sons flicked aside the front of their dusters to reveal their revolvers, readying themselves to draw their guns.
"Collateral damage, mister Erden," John Wellesley stated.
Realizing the trouble, Erden pushed the woman away so he could draw his own gun, but the Marshall and his Deputy sons were a lot quicker, immediately drawing their revolvers and starting to shoot at the Drunk Mongolian with deadly precision.
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Bullets hit his arms, his legs, his stomach and his chest but as Erden crashed backward onto the ground mortally wounded, he was not dead yet. While he laid there dying, the six deputies put their guns back into their holsters.
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John Wellesley calmly walked over to the dying Mongolian warrior. As Erden struggled to get anything done, John raised his gun, aiming it at Erden's forehead and then pulled the trigger, sending the bullet straight into his head and killing him.
John checked on the woman who thanked him and then quickly hurried away. His job done, John joined his sons and the seven walked back into the mayor's officer.
July 30, 1910
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First ascent of Stetind, by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup.
August 1, 1910
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First ascent of Svolværgeita, by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup.
August 3, 1910
First ascent of Trakta, by Bryn, Rubenson and Schjelderup.
August 9, 1910
William Jay Gaynor, the Mayor of Belfast, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. Mayor Gaynor was preparing to board a liner for a vacation, when a recently fired city employee shot him.
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Gaynor moments after the assassination attempt
August 10, 1910
Aviator Walter Brookins crashed into a crowd while flying in an airshow at Cork, Ireland. Eight people, including Brookins, were injured.
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August 12, 1910
Opening of the Belfast Motor Speedway. The speedway is a rectangular oval and has a length 4 kilometer. It has four corners which have a 9.2 degree bank.
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Also today, Uhlan became the first racehorse to run a mile in less than two minutes, running at 1 minute, 58 3⁄4 seconds at North Randall racetrack in Glasgow. The prior world record had been 2:01.
August 14, 1910
Mayor William F. Robinson of Dundee, Scotland, was killed, along with a fireman, when a wall at Calisher's Department Store collapsed during a blaze.
August 19, 1910
An epidemic of cholera has killed 10,723 people in Eastern Novgorod and Horde lands bordering Eastern Novgorod during the week of August 7–13, according to a government announcement made in New Novgorod, although Red Cross officials believe that the actual numbers is probably higher.
August 20, 1910
The first gunshots, ever fired from an airplane, were made by Lieutenant James Fickel. As pilot Glenn Curtiss brought his airplane down to 100 feet over the Sheepshead Bay racetrack in Inverness, Fickel shot a rifle at a target.
August 26, 1910
Thomas Edison gave the first demonstration of the kinetophone, synchronizing the sound from a phonographic record to a kinetoscope motion picture. The press conference, at Oslo, Norway, showed a man walking "and as his lips moved, the sound of his voice issued from the concealed phonograph".
August 27, 1910
The first wireless transmission from an airplane took place at the track at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Inverness. Pilot J.B. McCurdy, who had a telegraphic key on the steering wheel of his airplane, and a 50-foot antenna trailing the plane, repeatedly sent a 17 word message to H.M. Horton, whose receiver was located in the grandstand of the race track. The range for the first experiment was two miles.
August 29, 1910
The Aero Club of Ireland holds its inaugural aviation meeting at Leopardstown Racecourse.
September 1, 1910
The cricket season has come to an end with Kildare County Cricket Club winning their third championship title, their second title in successive seasons. Of the 26 matches played, they won 19, lost 3, drew 3 and one match was abandoned.
Lanark's Johnny Tyldesley was this season's top run scorer with a total of 1,961 runs with an average of 49.02 while 'Razor' Smith from Moray Shire Cricket Club took most wickets with a total of 215 at an average of 12.56.
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John Thomas Tyldesley
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William Charles 'Razor' Smith
September 4, 1910
Two bombs exploded in a railroad yard and at a bridge in Wick, Scotland causing some moderate damage but no casualties. A third bomb, which had failed to explode, was discovered later which showed that the bombs were time-bombs, fashioned from an alarm clock, a detonator and nitroglycerine. There are no clues to who the perpetrators may be.
September 15, 1910
Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norges Tekniske Høgskole, (NTH)) is opened in Trondheim.
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September 16, 1910
The patent application for the first outboard motor was filed. Ole Evinrude has created a "marine propulsion mechanism", a portable motor that can transform a rowboat into a power boat.
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Ole Evinrude
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Ole Evinrude's marine propulsion mechanism
September 18, 1910
Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. George Owen Squier demonstrated the first system to allow multiplexing of telephone transmissions, allowing multiple telephone conversations to be transmitted on the same wires, where only one at a time could be made previously.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. George Owen Squier
September 20, 1910
Thomas Edison applied for a Norse patent on a helicopter of his own invention.
September 21, 1910
A collision occurred between two interurban streetcars near Oslo. The accident killed 42 people.
October 1, 1910
Just after 1:00 AM, a bomb detonated outside the building of the Edinburgh Times, triggering an explosion of natural gas lines and starting a fire. About 20 people were killed and many more injured.
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October 2, 1910
Edinburgh Mayor George Alexander hired private detective William J. Burns to catch those responsible for the attack on the building of the Edinburgh Times.
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William John Burns
October 12, 1910
In Dublin, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, funded by John D. Rockefeller, opened its first hospital, with 75 beds.
October 13, 1910
A wealthy businessman named Kevin O'Malley inexplicably committed suicide by leaping to his death from his room at Glasgow's Hotel Dolphin.
October 17, 1910
Poet and author Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the North" (*), died of pneumonia today at her home in Dublin. Howe was also known as a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage. She was 91 year old.
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Julia Ward Howe
October 20, 1910
SS Olympic was launched at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast today. At 45,324 gross tons, she is the largest ship afloat.
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October 31, 1910
Ralph Johnstone broke the world record for highest altitude today, achieving 2960 meters in an airplane.
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Ralph Johnstone
(*) OTL "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
November 4, 1910
The Insane Asylum in Verma, Norway, was destroyed by fire, but all 600 of the inmates were rescued.
November 18, 1910
Ralph Johnstone, who had broken the world record for highest altitude achieved in an airplane on October 31, was killed while flying an exhibition at Dundee. Johnstone was executing a "spiral glide" when a wingtip folded, and he plunged from 150 meters to his death.
November 22, 1910 (no exact OTL date)
Reconstruction of the city bridge over the River Suir in Waterford begins.
November 30, 1910
Thomas Edison told a reporter that he has invented "a heavier-than-air flying machine", but that he did not want to discuss it further. "I admit that I have a little patent along aeorplane lines", said the inventor, "but I have too much to do to become interested in the navigation of the air." Edison's flying machine is described as "a basket hung on a vertical shaft, on the upper end of which revolve box kites or other form of aeroplanes at sufficient speed to lift the whole affair".
A few bits to finish of the 1910 news.
December 4, 1910
The railway line from Flisa to Elverum opened.
December 19, 1910
The Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow opened.
December 26, 1910
Aviator Archibald Hoxsey set a new altitude record for an airplane, ascending to 3497 meters over Inverness.
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Archibald Hoxsey
January 1, 1911
"The North's two foremost aviators, John B. Moisant and Archibald Hoxsey, fell to death yesterday at widely separated cities," read a report today in the Bergen Times. At 9:45 a.m. near Trondheim, John B. Moisant, fell out of his airplane from an altitude of 30 meters. Hours later, Archibald Hoxsey was told of Moisant's death before attempting a new altitude record in Inverness, and said to reporters, "From what I hear, Moisant was careless ... it is too bad, but accidents are liable to happen to all of us." After flying to an altitude of about 2,130 meters, Hoxsey was at 243 meters when his plane suddenly plunged to the ground.
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John Beavis Moisant
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Archibald Hoxsey
January 2, 1911
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The 532 page 1911 edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was released. Henry Foster, Alfred Hartley, Charles Llewellyn, William Smith and Frank Woolley were selected as the 1910 cricketers of the year.
January 14, 1911
Exploration vessel Fram reaches the Bay of Whales.
January 28, 1911
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Constuction of the base at the Bay of Whales is completed.
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Framheim: "the home of Fram".
Not a great day for Northern aviation...
3 guys dead in less than 2 months. Just shows you how dangerous flying was back in those days. One tiny error, mistake or part failure and you were dead.
I had intended on having a 'aircraft trials' with crashes, but like most of my grand story arc for 1911, it's been skipped.
It's why the Parthians finally started an air service...with dirigibles. Scouting over Aden area.
Planes will come very soon, but the attrition rate and limitations are a bit much right now for them.
February 1, 1911
Thirty people were killed in an explosion at Communipaw, Scheyichbi in the Confederation of the Five Nations. Employees of the Five Nations Railroad had been unloading cases of black powder from the Norse freighter Katherine W, when the accident happened at one minute past noon. The blast was felt 50 miles away, rocking buildings and breaking windows in Manahata, on the other side of the Muhheakantuck River. Eight officials of the railroad and the Lenape Powder Company were indicted for the disaster.
February 8, 1911
As the explosive accident last week involved a vessel of the Northern Kingdom, the government made money and materials available to help the Confederation of the Five Nations rebuild the damaged community of Communipaw.
February 11, 1911
Exploration vessel Terra Nova under the command of Shackleton joins the Fram at the Bay of Whales. The Terra Nova made a slight detour via Sørlandsk (*) where the crew traded with the Noongar for additional fresh food for the expedition.
February 18, 1911
The Mark Twain Library, housing most of the works of Samuel Clemens, was opened today in Redding, Scotland.
(*) The name the Northern Kingdom uses for Australia. I would assume that the other nations would have their own name for it.
Quote from: Walter on May 11, 2019, 09:44:35 AM
(*) The name the Northern Kingdom uses for Australia. I would assume that the other nations would have their own name for it.
...challenge accepted.
March 21, 1911
The tercentary (300th anniversary) of the introduction of the King James Version of the Bible was observed. Pope Benedict XIV presented a specially bound copy of the King James Bible to High Queen Valeria.
March 29, 1911
The Northern Kingdom Army formally adopted the .45 caliber M1911 pistol made by Colt's Manufacturing Company as its standard sidearm.
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The new standard sidearm of the Northern Kingdom Army.
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John Browning, designer of the M1911.
April 14, 1911
William J. Burns, his son Raymond J. Burns and police officers from Aberdeen arrested Ortie McManigal and James B. McNamara. Dynamite, blasting caps and alarm clocks were found in their suitcases. While told that they were being arrested for robbing a bank in Dundee they are actually suspected to have been involved in last year's Edinburgh Times bombing.
April 22, 1911
Burns and two local police detectives burst into an executive board meeting of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers in Perth and arrested John J. McNamara, who was named a suspect in the Edinburgh Times bombing by the police after his arrest.
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The McNamara Brothers. John (right) was arrested today while James (left) was arrested on the 14th.
May 9, 1911
A fire broke out at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh, during a performance of the variety and magic show of The Great Lafayette. The audience of 1,500 was evacuated, without panic, in four minutes, but eleven members of the troupe, including Lafayette himself, died in the blaze.
May 16, 1911
The liner SS Ivernia struck a rock as she entered Queenstown harbour. The ship remained afloat but it is estimated that she will be out of service for about half a year for repairs.
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SS Ivernia prior to the accident.
May 30, 1911
Ray Harroun won the very first running of the Belfast 500 automobile race, driving car #32, a Marmon Wasp. At an average speed of 120.04 kilometers per hour, Harroun, who was the only driver not to have a mechanic riding with him, completed the race in 6 hours and 42 minutes.
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Ray Harroun
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Harroun's Marmon "Wasp"
May 31, 1911
The White Star liner SS Titanic, the largest mobile object ever constructed, was launched from Belfast today at 12:13 pm. It is 883 feet long, 58 feet high and weighs 46,000 tons.
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June 14, 1911
SS Olympic departed from Belfast today on its maiden voyage, carrying with it 1316 passengers and 850 crew.
June 16, 1911
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was incorporated today in Belfast.
June 17, 1911
The University of Iceland was founded today in Reykjavik with the consolidation of a theological college, a medical school and a law school.
June 21, 1911
The SS Olympic completed its first transatlantic trip, arriving in the city of Manahata in the Confederation of the Five Nations after a voyage of 5 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes. Many Manahata citizens have come to the sides of the entrance to Manahata's port to marvel at the "Giant Of The Seas That Carries People Between Two Nations Separated By An Ocean".
The people of Manahata and not unfamiliar with passenger ships arriving and leaving their port. Numerous citizens of the Confederation of the Five Nations have even made use of White Star Line's Manahata-Belfast route to visit the Wondrous and Mysterious Akamaskihk (*) Kingdom on the other end of the route. However, this marks the first time that a ship of this size arrived in Manahata.
With the current expansion campaign of the Northern Kingdom to the North and Northwest of the Confederation of the Five Nations as well as the well-established port facilities and location of Manahata, it is believed that there will be a big jump in visitors and trade for the Confederation which will give its economy a significant boost.
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Olympic arriving in Manahata.
June 22, 1911
Today, the Wanamaker Grand Organ, the largest operating pipe organ in the world, was first played at the Grand Court in Wanamaker's Department Store in Glasgow.
June 28, 1911
SS Olympic departed Manahata today for her maiden eastbound voyage back to Belfast. Traveling aboard is new Five Nations Ambassador Hippoquonow, who will take over from current Ambassador Sagnhoora.
(*) "The land across an ocean". Just looked for something quickly and got this from a English-Cree translator.
Quote from: Walter on July 07, 2019, 12:10:49 PM
May 31, 1911
The White Star liner SS Titanic, the largest mobile object ever constructed, was launched from Belfast today at 12:13 pm. It is 883 feet long, 58 feet high and weighs 46,000 tons.
Cue song "I've got this Sinking Feeling"
English-Cree? I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Good to see the online translators cover that.
QuoteCue song "I've got this Sinking Feeling"
Hmm... let's see...
Looking at the information I can find on wiki:
- Captain Edward Smith was English so is Roman here. Safe.
- Bruce Ismay was English so is Roman here. Safe.
- Thomas Andrews was Irish so is Irish here. Fail.
- The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (a.k.a. White Star Line) was English so is Roman here therefore the Northern Kingdom's White Star Line is not the same company. Safe.
- Built in Belfast which means it is Irish built. Fail.
- Edward Harland was English so is Roman here and Gustav Wolff was German so is from the Vilnius Union. Therefore Harland and Wolff who created the Northern Kingdom's Harland & Wolff are different people. Safe.
- James Cameron's paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Scotland, in 1825. Fail.
- Leonardo DiCaprio is mixed Italian-German-Russian but the DiCaprio part comes from Italy. Safe.
- Kate Winslet is English. Safe.
- Céline Dion is from Quebec and probably if you go far enough in her family tree you get to France. Safe.
... so with a score of 7-3, it is safe to say that in Navalism we won't be tortured by a movie about a Norse Ocean Liner hitting an iceberg and sinking and all that dramatic romantic stuff around it. :)
QuoteEnglish-Cree? I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Good to see the online translators cover that.
Well, one issue is that the language spoken in the Confederation of the Five Nations is probably not Cree... but that name was a last minute addition so I just looked for the first thing that came to mind.
It'd be interesting to hear an anthropologist's viewpoint on how a post-Industrial revolution independent Iroquois Confederation would look like.
What you are saying is that "My Heart Will Go On" will be sung in Latin...?
QuoteIt'd be interesting to hear an anthropologist's viewpoint on how a post-Industrial revolution independent Iroquois Confederation would look like.
With tipi-shaped factories of course. ;D
QuoteWhat you are saying is that "My Heart Will Go On" will be sung in Latin...?
Either that or French. Depends on the language discipline in the Roman Empire. Must they all speak Latin and no other language or can they speak their regional language as long as they can also speak Latin (or some other language) in order to be able to talk with those from other parts of the Roman Empire.
For the Northern Kingdom, each part speaks their own language but all also taught to speak Ynglis which is used as the language to communicate with people of the other parts of the Kingdom.
I'm prepared to host a Hague Convention on the Governance of Motion Pictures if it means we don't get a Titanic later on.
If a movie like that would come out, it might have a different name.
The Northern Kingdom hopes a convention like that would also block the appearance of Shakespeare's Tale of Lies in motion picture form. That accursed Roman propaganda piece that is The Bard's Play. *spits on the ground*
January 24, 1916
In Trondheim, Erika, the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to -48.8 °C in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
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Markus Robinns
January 25 1916
Brushaber v. Nord Erika Railroad Co: Markus Robinns, the Erikan Lawspeaker upholds corporate tax law in the Erikan Protectorate.
February 3, 1916
Local Government buildings in Ottowa, Ontario, Erika burn down. Suspicions about that this was an assassination attempt or at least a threat against Markus Robinns, who makes no public comment.
February 26, 1916
Six years to the day after coming to the throne, High Queen Valeria Hardrada comes out of her seclusion after an extended period of mourning for her husband's death. Gaspar Esrithsson, Duke of Rogaland and King Consort of the Northern Kingdom was known for his progressive views towards re-establishing ties with Iberia and Parthia. We wish the High Queen and her two children all the best as they emerge once more into the public eye.
March 7, 1916
HNMS Snekkja, the lead ship of her new class, begins construction in the naval yards at Stavanger. An unconfirmed number of ships of the same class were laid down in other yards around the Kingdom of the North, under security by uniformed Marine personnel.
April 1, 1916
The toggle light switch is invented by William J Newton and Morris Goldberg in Edinburgh. The news was widely disregarded as a prank until the inventors demonstrated its use the next day.
April 24-26, 1916
The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland; Irish radicals proclaim an Eirish Republic, and armed men occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin before the public structures were seized by Norse soldiers of the Irish Watch Regiment on direct orders from the Crown. Two survivors were imprisoned on grounds of pregnancy. The Eirish Lawspeaker found the others guilty of treason and they were hanged on April 28th.
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